Loading a quilt on New Joy Gold Standard Quilting Frame

I have been asked to help someone with loading a quilt to her New Joy Gold Standard Quilting Frame.
Today, I am going to post a Tutorial on just that subject.
Hope this will help others just starting out with this home quilting system.

The way I load a quilt on my New Joy Gold Standard Frame

by Barb Lynn

I have leaders made with duck cloth which are about 15 inches wide. They attach to the bars with sticky back Velcro. I use only three of the rail that came with the frame at the present time. The leader on the take up, backing and the quilt bars are marked with permanent marker at the center. You can draw a line on edge of the leaders to have an accurate line to pin on.

I first attach the backing to the take up bar, wrong side of backing facing up. The leader comes underneath the bar, underneath the machine needle and full forward to within easy reach. Starting at the middle of the frame attach the leader to the backing by placing the leader next to the backing matching center line on the backing to the center line on the leader and pin about ¼ inch from the edge, pins fairly close together.

I roll the backing up on the take up roller until I get fairly close to the end of the leader, smooth out the back as you are rolling and make sure the seam where you attached the backing is nice and smooth. This is photo showing the take up leader rolled all the way to end. Tighten the knob for the take up roller.

 

I leave the backing hanging loose and take a hold of the other end of the backing and match markings. Pin the backing leader to the bottom of backing in the same way. Tighten the knob on the backing bar to keep from unwinding.

Once the backing it pinned to the leader, you can roll it counterclockwise until it is tight. and smooth.

 

 

I usually keep a hold of the take up roller so it won't roll out too fast to keep the backing pretty smooth as I go. You may have to roll it back to the take up roller and repeat the process to smooth it all out.

 

Now is the time to put the batting on. Loosen the backing some and bring the batting up over the backing roll and insert the top edge underneath the top roller. I take the batting to within an inch of the edge of the take up leader. You can measure this or just eyeball it. Smooth out the batting and make sure it lines up straight with the outside edges of the backing.

 

Pin the quilt top to the top roller, lining up your center marks.

I let the quilt top rest in the well formed by the take up roller and the backing roller while I am pinning to the top leader..

 

Take the quilt top edge to within an inch or so from the batting edge at the back of the machine. I pin the top at this point and roll the quilt up on the top bar, turning clockwise to tighten. Same as with the backing, you may have to unroll the top and roll it back up to get it smooth and straight. Use the side claps to keep the sides straight.

It is now ready to quilt. Adjust the rollers to ¼ inch from the top of the machine bed and if machine is threaded and ready to go...start quilting.

 

When finished quilt I unpin the backing from the leader, then loosen the knob of the take up roller. I can now pull on the edge of the quilt nearest to me and it will unroll from the take up roller. Take out the pins at the top edge and the quilt can be taken to the cutting table to be trimmed for the binding process.

Comments welcome,
Barb Lynn

Blue and Yellow Bargello

I will be sending this bargello quilt to a new home in Minnesota today. I hope it will keep someone there very warn next winter and make the room look cheerful.
 I made this quilt when I did a tutorial on how to make a bargello quilt. I eventually made that tutorial into an instructaional pattern in  PDF file format to sell online through Etsy.  My niece bought the fabrics for this quilt because I had never made a quilt that had yellow fabric before. I'm glad she did this for me since I didn't think I liked quilts with yellow in them. That is not the case now. I love to use yellow now.

Full view on a queen size bed

 showing center diamond design

 Corner detail showing the two borders

 Backing, showing pieced panel between to 45 in. widths of fabric.



Chinese Coins Lap Quilt

Chinese Coins quilt has a new home. Sent this out to its new own a couple weeks ago.

This quilt was made using left over pieces strips from making bargellos and trip around the world quilt. It was fun to make searching for strips that could  blend together like I has planned and bought all the fabrics for just this quilt.

Quilt for my granddaughter

My granddaughter needed a quilt for her new residence, and this is what she got. I had pieced these panels a few years ago and had them in my unfinished projects stash. I also had all the other fabrics on hand, so it didn't take long to make this.
I quilted this with my Jamone 1600p on a New Joy Gold frame using a pantograph in the blue sections and filled in with free motion quilting.

The back was pieced with prints of blue and pink.

Working on a 4-Patch Posey quilt

I've had this blue variegated fabric for some time and wanted to do something with it, but could not figure out what color to use. I had the pink fabric so decided to see how it would look with it. I was so please with that combination, it worked so well. Brightens up the whole quilt, I think.
The other day I measure the fabric and found I had enough to made the 4-patch posey. For these block I needed tostackh the fabric in four layers and get it line up so all the prints would match down throughh the stack. When I cut the squares from the stacked fabric I get four pieces exactly alike. Once these are sewn together, the prints with make a kaleidescope look.Eachc block will have adesignn in them.

Boxed squares and rectangles quilt finished

I'm not sure of the name of this quilt. I got the idea from a posting on the Quilting Board. I quilted this on my New Joy quilting frame with a Janome 1600p. The quilting is done with a pantograph plus free motion quilting between the panto rows.

French Braid Quilt Top

Been a busy last couple of months. Have made a lot of new things. This is the first French Braid I've ever made. It is made of all batiks excent for the blue accent fabrics which I pulled from my stash.
It still needs to be quilted, which I hope to do soon.

Going Fabric Shopping today

Hello, I've been working on a lot of projects latelty for Christmas gifts and my Etsy shop and as you might guess, I don't have enough fabrics to finished everythhing. I have been trying to use up what fabric I have in my stash, and finding just the right fabric, start cutting and see that I don't have enough to finish. Hopefully tomorrow I will show what lovely fabric I came across and maybe even a finished project or two. Barb

T-Shirt Quilt

Hello, I would like to show a t-shirt quilt I recently made. This was a fun quilt to make. It was made for an old friend from high school.
In the spring my friend brought some of his t-shirts that he got when going to races. It took me a while to finish the quilt for him, but since he had been hanging onto the shirts for so long, it really didn't matter to him that I wasn't getting the quilt done in a hurry.

I quiltded this with a Jamone 1600P on a New Joy Gold Standard quilting frame. I did a free motion meander design in the background and outline stitched around the elements in the design on the shirts to highlight them.
Barb