Thursday, August 9, 2012

Coping strips and tubing

 Above is a picture of two coping strips and some of the tubing.  Below is a close up of how the coping strips are shaped.
With shipping costs, the coping strips were less than $25.  The 3/8" polyethylene tubing was less than $9 at Lowe's.

I'm confident that these two together will create a fast loading system for my quilts on the longarm.  Now all I need to do is sew the channels in the leaders.  I'm so excited!

1 comment:

Bonnie said...

One thing I did is sew an extra piece of striped fabric on to the canvas leaders and made the channel out of that. The stripe gave me something to gauge where I was clamping the fabric too and it is a whole lot easier to clamp to thinner fabric than the heavy canvas.