Applique help needed....
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I have the same machine and do a lot of blanket stitch applique and every once in a while I forget to check the screen to see what the presser foot setting should be and what the tension should be set at!! I get tunneling if both are not correct!
Try checking those 2 things {very very simple!!} and I will bet you have no more tunneling!!!
Try checking those 2 things {very very simple!!} and I will bet you have no more tunneling!!!
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Try a looser tension on both bobbin and top thread, and starch the fabric well. I have used washaway Solvy scraps dissolved in water instead of starch with good results, otherwise back the fabric with copy paper. I know there are those who won't agree, but I've never had a problem with it, and the paper comes out after soaking in water for a few hours.
#24
Thank You for responding. I should have specified that I am getting the tunneling when I try the satin stitch ( zig zag) Part of my problem may have been the cheap/thin muslin that I was practicing on. I'm still having problems when I try using the satin stitch but I have the blanket stitch under control, I think
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I use a stabilizer like heat and bond lite, iron it down and then with my normal machine do either a blanket stitch or a zig zag stitch. You have to go slow around curves. If it is ironed down I don't see how you'd get tunneling.
#28
I do a lot of satin stitch applique. I always iron a sheet of freezer paper to the back of my base block to stabilize it before I satin stitch. When you're finished, it tears off very easily. I know lots of people do it different ways, that's just the way I do it. Whatever you're comfortable doing is the right way for you.
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OMG! I haven't done applique for quite awhile. I am thinking of doing a fan, just satin stitched on cotton around the edge of the fan. Now I am scared to do anything. What in the world is tunneling? I thought I could just lay the pieced fan down on the cotton and buzz around it with a satin stitch. I better re-think this whole thing. Not tonight as I am finishing up my taxes too!
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