Machine Eating Triangles
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I used the hint posted here about making any throat plate a single hole one. It works perfectly. Also learned here how to set the default of my Brother machine to always default in the middle when the machine is turned on. It worked for my friend's Janome too.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...p-t284243.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfq-GW88DsA
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...p-t284243.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfq-GW88DsA
#27
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Lake Stevens, WA
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If all else fails, place your pieces on top of an ordinary sheet of tissue paper (like gift wrap). It tears away from a straight seam very easily if you are using it in the correct direction, so do a test tear each direction to see which way tears in an almost straight line.
#29
I always use leaders and enders. 2 in squares of cloth to put on end, and then cut thread and leave it under foot then butt new piece under foot and sew till end and butt another one on to start again,Unless i am chain stitching then i use one to start and one to stop and thats it cmarascia. I keep a small jar by machine for the small pieces
#30
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
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The solution I use most - there are several - is to position the needle at least an 1/8th of an inch from the edge of the fabrics your are piecing.
You can also use what is called a 'leader' - just a small scrap of two fabrics that you put under the needle - and start your sewing on that. When you reach the end of the leader, do not lift the foot, just place the triangle you are piecing near it and start sewing. It's really just an adaptation of the chain piecing technique.
Others will chime in with even more solutions. Quilters are a resourceful bunch of people.
You can also use what is called a 'leader' - just a small scrap of two fabrics that you put under the needle - and start your sewing on that. When you reach the end of the leader, do not lift the foot, just place the triangle you are piecing near it and start sewing. It's really just an adaptation of the chain piecing technique.
Others will chime in with even more solutions. Quilters are a resourceful bunch of people.
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