Sewing with Minky
Stacy GrissomSewing with minky fabric has never been so fun and easy! Stacy Grissom discusses sewing quilts using minky fabric. Minky is a soft, cozy fabric that is great for making baby quilts for your little one, or as a gift! Watch this helpful tutorial that walks us through the set up for sewing a cute and cuddly quilt for a baby.
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I love making baby quilts and bigger quilts, too, but baby quilts are more fun because they're faster, more immediate gratification. But I love to line my quilts with minky. It's just so soft and so cuddly. It makes them a little bit warmer, also. So this is what minky will look like when you've quilted it.
I've just got this little example, I was just playing around a bit on it. So when you quilt the minky, you really don't see the thread at all. And you can just kind of see the shape, so it's kind of fun. You can play around with it, do some free motion or make different shapes or just quilt it. But when you quilt with minky, it's so slippery and it's so tricky and it'll get messed up really easily.
So I've got a way to pin it that will help keep that from happening. So the first thing you want to do is lay your minky down. And it's right side down. And then lay your batting out. And then you take your quilt top.
So you sandwich it just like you would if you were using cotton on the other side. Just make sure you've got minky on all the edges hanging off. Then I flip it over and I make sure that my minky is really nice. See how it likes to bubble up? So I get it as flat as possible.
And I take straight pins. And I start in one corner. And I throw pins and especially along the edges. I want to pin all the way around. Now, this adds an extra step to your pinning for the quilt, but it will save you time in the long run, because if you don't do this, then, invariably, you're going to end up with a bubble or a wrinkle, and you're going to have to seam rip and start over.
I learned the hard way. You don't have to. So I pin all the way around. I just keep smoothing it out. If you had a big quilt, do the same thing, just lay it on the floor, pin the minky first, get somebody to help you.
Teamwork always makes it go faster. Just going to throw some in the middle here. You just want to make sure that that minky is not going to move on you, because that's what it loves to do. Okay, so once you've got a bunch of pins in it, flip it back over, make sure all of this is nice and flat. And then you come in with your safety pins like you would normally do on a quilt.
You would start safety pinning. So normally, you would go through each square. Normally, when I pin for a quilt, I just put a pin in each of the squares or shapes. But with the minky, you also want to put one in each corner. And then you want to put some along the edges, as well, every six inches or so.
So you're still going to put your pins in all of the squares. So it's a lot more pinning, but it really is worth it. So you'd have pins in all of the squares and then pins in all of the corners and along the edges. That will keep your minky from rolling up on you and from bubbling up in the middle. And then you'll have a beautiful quilt lined with minky that's soft and cuddly.
I see with minky all the time thank you for these amazing tips ! Also how do you start quilting is there a certain way for beginners? Do you have tutorials ?
Nice clear voice with helpful tips!
If you have pins on the top and the bottom of your baby “how are you going to protect yourself from sewing through the pins that are underneath
Info looks interesting
Have usek minky. I spray baste. no pins Works great!!
After placing the safety pins, do you remove the straight pins before sewing?
I would like information/tips on making quilt blocks with minky, where minky is sewn to minky. I use minky on both sides of the quilt and usually swear I will ever do it again!
Thanks for the tips on using this cuddly but tricky-to-sew fabric.
These sewing tips are very helpful. Thanks very much. Do you have any sewing video on making ironing board covers?