HST gamechanger!
05-31-2021, 10:13 AM
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HST gamechanger!
A friend sent me the link to 'How to make Accordion HST's' and it is too good to keep to myself. Here is the link to the first of 3 YouTube videos. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...oHz8zRwNiyxncw
I had only one problem with the technique--my quarter inch foot sews to the left of a line while the demonstrator sewed to the right of the line. So I had to do everything backwards. But it does work! Definitely worth checking out.
I had only one problem with the technique--my quarter inch foot sews to the left of a line while the demonstrator sewed to the right of the line. So I had to do everything backwards. But it does work! Definitely worth checking out.
05-31-2021, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by joe'smom
Interesting -- thanks for sharing! I wonder how she knows where to sew if she hasn't drawn the line. I might try it if I didn't have to draw the lines.
05-31-2021, 11:57 AM
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I took a piece of painters tape and laid it on the 1/4 inch marking on my sewing machine bed. I did draw a line on the first one, but after that, just lined up the points with the painters tape.
05-31-2021, 12:25 PM
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Thanks GingerK for sharing this!
As you said, this could be a game changer, at times.
I was looking at a HST pattern the other day, and I can see doing this as an endless Leader/Ender project til I had miles of them together. Enough to make a quilt?
CashsMom ... I'm like you, and see the lines as a necessity to keep things in line (pun intended!) Though I noticed the different colours, straight and angled on her clear table. I think that would help us all go lineless and not even need GingerK's painter tape method. Bad me ... I have been known to take a sharpie and actually draw a line on my sewing machine bed! (mostly I have done that after I put some protective tape down)
As you said, this could be a game changer, at times.
I was looking at a HST pattern the other day, and I can see doing this as an endless Leader/Ender project til I had miles of them together. Enough to make a quilt?
CashsMom ... I'm like you, and see the lines as a necessity to keep things in line (pun intended!) Though I noticed the different colours, straight and angled on her clear table. I think that would help us all go lineless and not even need GingerK's painter tape method. Bad me ... I have been known to take a sharpie and actually draw a line on my sewing machine bed! (mostly I have done that after I put some protective tape down
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05-31-2021, 01:07 PM
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There are a few products available that would keep a person from resorting to tapes and sharpies (altho a bit more expensive 
. Here's a link to the one that I have. http://www.everythingquilts.com/brow...er-2-Tool.html My only criticism is that I have to partially remove it to change my bobbin.
. Here's a link to the one that I have. http://www.everythingquilts.com/brow...er-2-Tool.html My only criticism is that I have to partially remove it to change my bobbin.
06-01-2021, 07:54 AM
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You don't know about Diagonal Seam tape? I cut it to fit my bobbin plate so no hassle. It's wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9UoRUp-a9w
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