Thank you all, for the great suggestions and feedback. I had to disappear while I made my daughter (and her friend!) 'SuperGirl' capes, made from 70s vintage gold lame material I found a few years back at a tag sale. So much fun to make, and they were a hit... anyway, I then started fiddling around with my amazing ElnaSU and discovered that there is a very nice 'automatic' serpentine stitch built into the machine. I inherited this machine almost 20 years ago, I've used it off and on and have never been able to get the auto-sew feature to work... well, suddenly I get it. I think I am going to do a serpentine stitch along the bottom only of each row (or maybe every other row, so that it doesn't get too stiff from all the stitching. I'll do that with a layer of muslin (or something) underneath, and then put my sandwich together using flannel for the backing. I don't want to stitch on the flannel, will make it too stiff I think. My machine also allows you do to some embroidery-like stitching, I'm going to attempt to do that along the border, once I've figured that out. Will post a pic when I'm all done. Thanks again, this forum is SO great!
Rachel
Last edited by mamaborne; 02-02-2014 at 04:47 PM.