Originally Posted by
Candace
Don't do it. It's simply not safe and the end result will be poor.
honestly, this is the way we did it in the 70s and 80s when everything was done by moving the material... no machines with built in embroidery... the closest they came was the rudimentary line stitching with arrows, hearts, flowers, etc..... and by the 90s, we had a few alphabets built in... I took machine embroidery in adult night school. We were taught thread painting, applique, satin stitching (which is the ONLY thing we did with a foot on, and 'writing'.... it not only can be done but is done all the time.....and in every class, there was at least one person who forgot to put their presser foot down for a minute... you know immediately, because it doesn't want to sew... presser foot down and go..... single line quilting is much easier than some of the techniques we were taught...