Your bottom hand steadies the fabric while guiding the needle all the way through to the back of the quilt and moving it.

How to hand quilt a large quilt. Have a big table or a big space to have the quilt lay on to the left of your machine. Once you've determined where you want to stitch (assuming you already have a design drawn out. To secure a “quilter’s knot”, begin with a threaded needle and place the thread tail over the needle.

After the quilting design is marked, layer your quilt top, batting and backing together. The bigger the space the better. Here are some tricks and methods that i use.

You will take your first stitch on the back side of your quilt. Start about an inch away from where you want the needle to be when you come up on the front of. Start by using a marking tool to mark your design that you will follow.

Then open the next petal. A big stitch hand quilting uses a simple running stitch and a heavier thread such as 12wt or 8wt. Now let’s get into the process:

Make a quilter’s knot on the end in the following way: Also know as the walking foot, set your straight stitch length to 2.5 for cotton. When the quilt hangs off.

The technique of hand stitching adds a personal touch to the finished quilt, and those slight imperfections from doing hand stitching only add to the beauty of the finished quilt. Hold in the tail in. Keep one hand underneath the quilt and one hand above.