Originally Posted by
Jan in VA
Try several different stitch lengths on a sample square.
Make them each about 2-3 inches long and about 1/2 inch apart and mark each sample with the setting on your machine that created it.
Measure the different samples and find one closest to about 11-12 stitches to an inch. This is the one you are best using when strip piecing. It will help your seams with other kinds of piecing, too.
Done. I found the sweet spot that is 11-12 stitches per inch and stuck a post it there to mark it. I am getting the impression that's the spot I want to use for most of my sewing anyway?
I was thinking no matter how loosely I stitched my blocks, the quilting would hold everything together in the end. Wrong??