Benefits of Sideways Stitch?
 

Hi - I am looking at getting a new machine and tried out a Brother that does a sideways stitch. I'd love to hear what you think this feature is good for, particularly when used in quilt making.
Thank you!

i like my directional stitch on my brother i have a zigzag and straight stitch that go in all directions..........love it for putting patches on, so easy i strat left to right then down -right to left then up and done...... just pin the patch in place don't even have to move the garment/project around.

I've had a lot of fun with mine doing machine decorative stitching on crazy quilt blocks. I have a Babylock and it really surprised me that it goes forward, backwards and side to side LOL!!

I dot have a machine with sideways stitch, but I have many times wished it did. Pockets, patches, quilting around squares.

I am way behind. This is the first I have heard of a machine sewing sideways.

Same here! :)

I did a session this past week for Brother's Innovis Dream machine and completed the survey. My quilt guild benefits from it and the shop hopes to sell a few out of the sessions. Anyway, our educator for the machine talked about the sideways stitch being helpful when you do totes or purses and you want to put that X on the square near the handle. You could stitch straight, then sideways and then even diagonally without twisting and turning your piece or raising the presser foot.

Which machine do you have????

It was the craziest thing - I was so surprised when they showed it to me. I am looking at Janome and Brother and am still undecided. But this was a feature on the Brother. I tried the VQ2400/3000 units, and the "higher level" machines like them have it too.
Thank you for your thoughts on this. I've yet to make any kind of bag, but they are something I'd like to try eventually, and so far don't do much in the way of garments either. Not sure it is a feature that would sway me one way or the other, but sounds like it would be useful in certain situations.

its a feature underutilized because most don't know what its for still don't and i have had the feature forever