Peckish

Okay to clarify... My husband is on a plane so I can't ask him where he did his research regarding the stitch. However, I did call a BabyLock dealer and asked a technician about the machine. He told me the Sashiko does not do a lock stitch. It has to have both upper and lower threads to be a lock stitch, and the Sashiko doesn't use upper thread. Then I asked him about the bottom stitch, how it is made and whether it's possible to unravel. He became quite cagey and didn't really give me much of a straight answer, other than to vehemently state that He's never had it unravel on him. His answer makes me wonder what they changed between the Sashiko and Sashiko II.

Short story - who knows. I still think it's an interesting machine, and given some tweaking and adjusting, might make a really cool quilting machine.