Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Quilting, Sewing Machine on Feb 27th, 2012
I like to join pieces of wadding (or quilt batting) together – it’s such a waste throwing out the off-cuts. I abut the two pieces together – no overlapping and join them with a zig zag stitch. I use a multiple zig zag, but I’m sure a normal zig zag would work as well. I’ve [...]
Posted in Applique, Sewing Machine on Feb 6th, 2012
I’ve finished the front of the dino cushion. The applifix worked really well and I will use it instead of vliesofix in the future. For this applique I used normal machine cotton (last time I used embroidery thread), a blanket stitch (on my machine Mode 2, 35) and a width and length of 1.5mm.
Posted in Applique, Quilting, Sewing Machine on Aug 25th, 2011
I’ve finished the cushion for Miss A. A few things I discovered; vliesofix is fabulous, but there must be a cheaper way of buying it, a finer blanket stitch was best (Mode 2 36 on my Janome 6600p), as the envelope style backing is quite generous a button is not required. Here is a closer look [...]
Posted in Applique, Sewing Machine on Aug 18th, 2011
I’ve started stitching around the edges of my applique cushion. This one … I’m using bobbin fill on the bottom and rayon embroidery thread on the top (Robison Anton Rayon). I’m using a blanket stitch (stitch number Mode 2 35 if you have a Janome 6600p – I’m also using the F2 foot, which makes [...]
Posted in Machine Embroidery, Quilting, Sewing Machine on Apr 21st, 2011
I finished this sampler – I’ve blurred the name and birth date in the middle. Here is the back … I used 2.5 inch strips to bind the quilt. This worked much better for me than 2 inch strips. I quilted in straight lines using a stitch length of 3.5mm – the normal setting for [...]
Posted in Machine Embroidery, Quilting, Sewing Machine on Apr 19th, 2011
I’m feeling re-motivated and keen to get back into crafting. I’ve started quilting this sampler. I’m quilting in straight lines on the diagonal (using my Accufeed foot – it is fabulous) and purple masking tape (it’s low tac) to mark the lines.
Posted in Sewing Machine on Oct 19th, 2010
I bought the 1/4 inch acufeed foot for my sewing machine. Once I worked out that I needed to change the needle position it all went well. Instead of being at 3.5 it needs to be at 5.5.
Posted in Quilting, Sewing Machine on Oct 11th, 2010
I like continuous binding, but I always have trouble with the last join. This time I watched a DVD tutorial by Brenda Smith. I watched a bit, did what she did, watched the next bit etc. I achieved perfect results – I didn’t even end up with a pinch in the binding because I put [...]
Posted in Sewing Machine on May 8th, 2010
I’ve been wanting this sewing machine for a while (and the Mothers Day sale made it possible). My MC9000 (Janome) while good was a bit old, the touch screen was a bit dodgy and it didn’t have the built in thread cutter (which I’ve come to really like on my 1600p) and it was quite [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing Machine on Oct 13th, 2009
I’ve been working on the pony design all day (off and on). My machine informed me it would take 46 minutes, but that’s just sewing time and once you take into account trimming the applique fabric and changing the thread it takes much longer even if you’re doing nothing else – whereas I’ve had a [...]