Angle ruler for sewing machine bed
09-12-2016, 06:42 AM
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I find myself visually challenged by all those lines. What I have done in the past is simply place a piece of blue painter's tape on the bed of the machine running in front of the needle, then used a ruler and Sharpie to mark a straight line from the needle to the front of the machine. When sewing squares for HSTs, I would simply look at keeping the corner points on that line.
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09-12-2016, 11:05 AM
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My method came from a quilt class. Get a narrow piece of lined paper, 1" x 11", sew on line in the center of strip for a few inches. Then tape down both sides of the narrow strip to your machine/cabinet. Remove what is at the feed dogs and start sewing. Then all you do is keep the point you hold, on the line until you have sewn the block.
09-12-2016, 01:31 PM
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I find myself visually challenged by all those lines. What I have done in the past is simply place a piece of blue painter's tape on the bed of the machine running in front of the needle, then used a ruler and Sharpie to mark a straight line from the needle to the front of the machine. When sewing squares for HSTs, I would simply look at keeping the corner points on that line.
The single line works if you plan on getting only 1 HST from each pair of squares, but you end up with 2 smaller cut triangles as waste.
Hope this was more clear than mud!
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