Originally Posted by Tink's Mom
I would make a sandwich of scraps of your fabrics and just try a couple of stitches out. It may work out ok with that foot.
This is a fabulous idea - I made a little 'stitch sampler' on my Janome 6260 that I still use! Somehow the little graphic on the machine never looks like the actual stitch on fabric.
I took about an 8" strip, batting & back, stitched a sample of every decorative stitch on the machine.
It would also be a good thing to do the same in different stitch widths, regular and variegated thread, whatever variations you use in your projects!
I often use the decorative stitches in my quilt projects, really quite like the way it looks. Don't even have to stitch down a seam line - sometimes it works out better other places too.