Thread & Tension Help

Read our tips on how to successfully use "unusual" fabrics for your backing.

Today we are focusing on some of the backing troubles that can derail an otherwise wonderful quilt...

In quilting there is only one word that is equal to a four letter word except it has 7 letters … TENSION!

When you're hard at work on a quilt, and your thread decides not to cooperate, your blood pressure can increase exponentially.

These railroad tracks aren't of the Amtrak variety … these tracks refer to those pesky "flat lines" of bobbin thread sometimes found on the back of your quilt.

When your thread starts to snap, it doesn't take long before your nerves start to snap, too. Here are some things to try that will help you narrow down the trouble and get back to quilting without stress.

Longarm quilting machines require much less bobbin tension than you may believe when compared to your home sewing machine.

If you are having trouble with your thread breaking on a recent project, use our step-by-step process to eliminate the obvious suspects before calling in the big dogs!

Is your bobbin collection an unorganized mess? Use these storage ideas from APQS to help keep your quilting area tidy!

Tension won't be so mysterious and irritating if you learn a few secrets about managing it and how the other choices you’ve made regarding your quilt top affect it.