Do you have/use athe circular attachment to your machine?
#12
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Save money and just tape a regular thumb tack, point up, 1/2 distance from needle will make a circle twice that size and you can use any decorative stitch you want to. Use several strips f tape to prevent the tack from slipping. Play with it, you will be a mazed what all you can do.
#13
I was watching a quilting video today on "The Quilt Show" website (which I love) and saw a quilter using a circular attachment. I never new there was one. I found one for my Brother machine and I am considering ordering it very soon. I would have loved to use it on my Crazy Quilt.
Do you have this attachment and how do you like it?
For those that don't know what it is ..here is a short video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhnfdecldpU
Do you have this attachment and how do you like it?
For those that don't know what it is ..here is a short video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhnfdecldpU
I have one of these circle attachments and it came with my Bernina, yes I have used it on several occasions and I like it... but if it had not come with my machine I don't know that I would have made the additional purchase.
I actually used this to create some circle appliques... use the attachment to tack down a piece of fabric, cut the extra fabric, now restitch with a decorative stitch.
easy peasy...
#14
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The concept intrigues me but I can't think of things to do it with. You have to have the fabric quite stiff for it to feed properly in a circle. I would have to put stabilizer or wonder under onto the fabric to stitch the edge. If I use a fancy stitch the ends are not going to meet up properly. If I straight stitch the edge then I suppose you could use it for raw edge circles on top of another fabric square and carefully cut away the extra fabric. I could stitch a circle with a dryer sheet on top of the right side and then turn for Drunkard's Path blocks. All the things I think of would make a stiffer appliqué. What am I missing?
#15
I originally thought of using it to quilt circles on a quilt like I've seen others do. just a regular stitch. But I haven't done that yet. not fond of poking holes in my quilt and the quilt going through the throat of my machine could make it come off of the tack if I wasn't careful.
doing blocks like this with decorative stitches and then putting them together as a QAYG would work fine though.
doing blocks like this with decorative stitches and then putting them together as a QAYG would work fine though.
#16
I have one for my Janome 3600 and it was invaluable making flannel nursing pads for my daughter. I used 3 layers of white flannelette, cut a square bigger than the size I wanted to make and used an embroidery scallop stitch in a circle the size I wanted. Then I trimmed around the scalloped edge with small scissors. My daughter loved them, they were easy to toss into the wash, they were absorbent, and it saved using disposables.
#19
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The concept intrigues me but I can't think of things to do it with. You have to have the fabric quite stiff for it to feed properly in a circle. I would have to put stabilizer or wonder under onto the fabric to stitch the edge. If I use a fancy stitch the ends are not going to meet up properly. If I straight stitch the edge then I suppose you could use it for raw edge circles on top of another fabric square and carefully cut away the extra fabric. I could stitch a circle with a dryer sheet on top of the right side and then turn for Drunkard's Path blocks. All the things I think of would make a stiffer appliqué. What am I missing?
As for having to use stiffer stabilizer, that's not really necessary. I help guide the fabric around simply by having my hand just under the fabric to keep it level and moving freely.
#20
I bought the flower stitch foot to sew circles. It's cheap and works great. The circles aren't very big but what I wanted to make. http://www.internetsalesusa.com/flow...wing-machines/
My next big purchase this week is going to be an ipad.
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