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Your baskets are beautiful. It's so easy to get caught up in making things like these.
Most of the time I open up my seams. I like it much better and I can get my block the exact size that way. I'm struggling with that problem when ironing the seam to the side. Then I don't often quilt directly in the ditch but try to figure out how the quilting can be of best support to the quilt. I have never had problems with quilts unraveling. One thing I do when I piece is using a shorter stitch length and put a bit more tension on the thread. My Bernina 830 has a stitch in the quilting section, that does that for me automatically. (Stitch no 1326 for you 830 owners)
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Originally posted by ReetzbobeetzThanks for the link to the pattern Marianne, I will have a look after this. As for stitching in the ditch, I do use a walking foot - with an open toe and invisible thread in the top of the machine (Aurifil in the bobbin). When I get to the intersections if the seams are not meeting perfectly (always the aim but not always successful there :roll: ) I raise the needle, lift the presser foot and shift it to where it needs to be so that there are no awkward stitches showing. If I am stitching around applique then I use the darning/free-motion foot and do it in FM.
I know how you feel about stitching over the bulky seams and I have to say that my Pfaff Select 4 (which is a much more basic machine than my Janome Horizon) does this best. I think the fancier computerized machines are not designed for this kind of donkey work at all. If you have an old singer machine it would probably do it best of all because they were really designed to stitch though anything and still keep the stitches straight.
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Originally posted by ReetzbobeetzI think the fancier computerized machines are not designed for this kind of donkey work at all.
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Originally posted by ZarahYour baskets are beautiful. It's so easy to get caught up in making things like these.
Most of the time I open up my seams. I like it much better and I can get my block the exact size that way. I'm struggling with that problem when ironing the seam to the side. Then I don't often quilt directly in the ditch but try to figure out how the quilting can be of best support to the quilt. I have never had problems with quilts unraveling. One thing I do when I piece is using a shorter stitch length and put a bit more tension on the thread. My Bernina 830 has a stitch in the quilting section, that does that for me automatically. (Stitch no 1326 for you 830 owners)
Re pressing open - I did a bit of testing on this and found that a shorter stitch length is needed when opening the seams. A quilt is really not like a piece of clothing which I found was some peoples reasoning when they defended pressing seams open. What I did was to make 2 small sandwiches one with the seams stitched with 10 stitches/inch (perhaps a bit open for piecing but that is about 2.5 mm and used when making clothes) and another with 17 stitches/inch. I used 60 weight cotton thread which I like because it takes up less space than 50 weight. I pressed the seams open and made a sandwich. I quilted close to the seams but not in the seams (I would weaken the threads if I hit it with the needle obviously) and also about 3/8" away from the seams. Then washed, dried in tumble dryer like I do with all my quilted stuff several times and then I abused it. Pulled and stretched in a all directions, squished and squashed and eventually managed to pull one of the seams that had been quilted away from the seam and seamed with the longer stitch length apart. I did not alter the tension at all! I decided that I am very happy to open seams if it means a flatter quilt sandwich but I will use a shorter stitch length which I now does all the time because I don't know which seams I will open and which I will press to the side. I do struggle with size because I am not consistently pressing open and it does make a difference when a block contains mixed seam pressing techniques (what a mouth full).
An added bonus of shorter stitch length too is that the blocks can cope with more handling - a downside is that it is very hard to frog stitch :twisted:
Oh and one other thing to note here is that not all machines' stitch length settings are the same. A Husqvarna/Viking machine set to 2 and a Bernina computerised machine set to stitch length 2 does not produce the same length stitch. Even my mechanical Bernina set to 2 and my 730 set to 2 produces different results. Isn't sewing interesting 8)
Sorry didn't mean to babble on
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Originally posted by suehenyonActually, my fancy computerized machine does pretty dang well if her owner remembers to put on the correct presser foot and use a heavier needle when sewing tough items
No seriously, I agree. The "change your needle" note I have on my machines is not just there to remind me to keep a newish needle in the machine but also to change when I go from seaming to hemming to elastic. One size does not fit all! neither when it comes to thread, fabric or thickness nor does one kind of needle/foot fit all jobs in hand. We are so lucky that these days the choice is so big when it comes to needles and feet so we can pick the best and not have to make do like our mothers had to.
One thing I have noticed when I turn the handle on my computerised machine to hand crank it over something it does not like it is so much harder to push through compared to my mechanical machine needle/fabric/foot being the same. Maybe the computerised machines are meant to have speed behind to cope with the thicker seams whereas the mechanical machines rely more on thrust???????
I am always scared to put my computerised machine out of timing so hesitate to go pedal to metal and thereby actually do more damage to it than if I did put my foot down?
Now why do I always come up with more questions when I start to think about these things :roll:
Thanks for your thoughts, Sue!
Marianne
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I like you babbling on . I'm glad you found your way and decided what to do. When I have to sew on thick material, I put on my jeans foot and the machine just goes on like a dream. I did not know how much help that foot is. I spend a lot of time changing needles and feet on my projects. We are lucky to have all those helpers
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I might be a bit of a philistine :twisted: when it comes to thread tension, but I like to have it a bit out - you know, not perfectly balanced, but with the top a bit loose compared to the bottom. The reason for this - it is sooo much easier for frogging :P , and I haven't yet had any problems with seams falling apart yet - well it works for me :wink:
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Originally posted by PosyPI might be a bit of a philistine :twisted: when it comes to thread tension, but I like to have it a bit out - you know, not perfectly balanced, but with the top a bit loose compared to the bottom. The reason for this - it is sooo much easier for frogging :P , and I haven't yet had any problems with seams falling apart yet - well it works for me :wink:
I have just finished watching Jinny Beyer and Jo Morton. I noticed that neither really tackled what happens when you put blocks together. Jo Morton had wonderful flat seams but always sashing or plain/appliqué blocks between pieced ones. Jo Morton's snipping makes a lot of sense and even though I have watched her show before I had not noticed where she snips or how. I will now watch the classroom videos to see if anything pops up there in the ones with Jinny Beyer.
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I noticed today there is only one post. So here is my work. Fun little blocks.
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Please inform if there are any instructions for the outer border . It uses the template B from the Centre block, but what...
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Your color choices are great, and your quilting is beautifully done.
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Beautiful work Helen!
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This is absolutely beautiful! Congrats on a wonderful job!
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Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled...
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So Sorry! I accidentally deleted my last post trying to edit and re-add a smaller photo so it would show up, which also...
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Hi Barbara, I’m just wondering if the running stitch around the appliqué flowers stitched prior to quilting or is it...
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I think because 80% of the pattern was revealed in the first 4 months these last months feel like they are very slow. Agreed...
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Done for now
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Photo is too big. There is a post at the top of the 2024 BOM forum with help for posting photos
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I tried to attach a picture under show your progress and it showed that I attached it but didn’t show up in my post only...
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