Is there some magic spell or fairy dust that'll help with free motion quilting?
03-12-2011, 03:12 PM
#91
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Originally Posted by rob529
What do you mean about turning machine around to face you? To me facing means like you have it when you are sewing. Do you mean having the end of the machine by the needle face you? I need all the help and then more so I want to make sure I am getting this right.
Thanks!
Robin in TX
Turn your machine around to face you. When you look at FMQ set ups like the Flynn or the HQ Sweet Sixteen or the Easy Quilter Track System, the machines are all facing you.
Thanks!
Robin in TX
Turn your machine around to face you. When you look at FMQ set ups like the Flynn or the HQ Sweet Sixteen or the Easy Quilter Track System, the machines are all facing you.
03-12-2011, 03:20 PM
#92
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Originally Posted by Maia B
It must be "try and cry" FMQ day. I've been making quilts for 20+ years, hand quilting and machine quilting straight lines only. So I have great machines with which to FMQ, I've read some recommended books, and I tried it early this morning. Hundreds of thousands of people do this, right? So no tension problems, no eyelashes, but it was just awful. I think everything is set just fine, because the stitch line is great except that it's jerky, ugly, and inconsistent. I could feel the thread's shame and disappointment at being involved. I can't trace a line, make any attractive shape, nothing nice at all. I sewed out a bobbin's worth on a 12"x 18" piece, which I then took directly to the rabbit cage to die the worst death any quilt can as a peed-upon chew rug. I went back to bed. Later, when I opened my thread drawer, the quilting weight threads were all cowering in fear. Even the piecing thread looked nervous. The worst of the whole story is that I was using the Bernina 440 with BSR, which is supposed to help, right? So I know it takes practice, but I'm pretty discouraged. It's also not AT ALL fun. Which is crazy, too...fabric :) + batting :) + thread :) + Bernina :))) = sad and sore like I did too much yard work.
03-12-2011, 03:34 PM
#93
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I tried typing in the machi;ne tables but nothing came up with it. I did PM someone who might have it. It was really neat. If I can I will take a picture of mine and post it. It basically looks like the tables that come with your machine but it is made so you turn your machine towards you and the table fits into it and you have table space out to the sides. Hope this helps.
03-12-2011, 04:21 PM
#95
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Lisa, I use a kid's Magnadoodle to practice a design before I actually quilt it. You can repeat it as many times as it takes and the feel of the stylus running over the Magnadoodle screen is kind of like the smoothness of sliding a quilt under a needle. I've found that, for me, it works better than paper and pencil.
03-12-2011, 05:07 PM
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I watched all 4 beginner videos. I want to really try it but I have an old Kenmore machine and I don't know how to get the foot feed thingies out of my way. I read that you can cover them if you can't lower them but cover them with what I wonder?
03-12-2011, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Maia B
It must be "try and cry" FMQ day. I've been making quilts for 20+ years, hand quilting and machine quilting straight lines only. So I have great machines with which to FMQ, I've read some recommended books, and I tried it early this morning. Hundreds of thousands of people do this, right? So no tension problems, no eyelashes, but it was just awful. I think everything is set just fine, because the stitch line is great except that it's jerky, ugly, and inconsistent. I could feel the thread's shame and disappointment at being involved. I can't trace a line, make any attractive shape, nothing nice at all. I sewed out a bobbin's worth on a 12"x 18" piece, which I then took directly to the rabbit cage to die the worst death any quilt can as a peed-upon chew rug. I went back to bed. Later, when I opened my thread drawer, the quilting weight threads were all cowering in fear. Even the piecing thread looked nervous. The worst of the whole story is that I was using the Bernina 440 with BSR, which is supposed to help, right? So I know it takes practice, but I'm pretty discouraged. It's also not AT ALL fun. Which is crazy, too...fabric :) + batting :) + thread :) + Bernina :))) = sad and sore like I did too much yard work.
Tell me when you find the secret, because there just has to be one.
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