Creating a Stitch Library Book - How To?
 

I just bought a new Juki HZL-F600 and I am thrilled with all of the stitches. I've heard of ways to create books that show the stitches and the different looks you can get with them by changing stitch length and width and I'm in need of ideas as how to do it. Any ideas for me?

Just cut up sheets, back with a stabilizer and stitch away. I usually do them in order. its pretty easy but very time consuming if you have lots of stitches

I saw them make a book from all the stitch on plain fabric and using a permanent marking pen to note the stitch length and width setting.

I took the thread class from Superior Threads and created that kind of book. For each thread, I would use stabilized fabric (I think I used two layers of muslin with batting). I drew a vertical line down the left side, marking into 1/2" increments. I'd label each 1/2" line with the tension from 0 to 8 with .2 increments. Then, I'd stitch 1/2", change the tension, stitch, change, stitch change. On the right side, I'd use what I felt was the optimum tension and play with different stitches. I've returned to use it several times already and have found it very helpful to have.

I always thought that it would be a great idea to make a stitch sampler machine cover.
Something practical .... and you'd always have it handy!

I Backed Pieces of Calico (about 8 inches square) with interfacing and stitched a row of every stitch for my Janome machine and wrote the Mode an stitch number above each row. Then Stitched the "pages" together down one side. It is great when you are pondering on which stitch to use to be able to see exactly what the stitch looks like when sewn as the images on the machine don't really give a good indication. It is well worth the time and effort to do this. Best wishes.....NannaJen

What a great idea!

Recently I was watching some machine quilting how-to videos on youtube, and one lady had made a "page" sandwich with each different design. She had then put grommets along one side & placed them in a three ring binder for easy access. And she could show her customers the stitched out designs. Maybe something like that in a smaller version would work? If you didn't want to buy grommets you could use easy machine buttonholes?

Wow, what a good idea, although it would be time consuming. But if you plan to maybe use a lot of your decorative stitches I'm sure it would be time well spent. I would do it like Dolphyngyrl or ManiacQuilter2 said if I were to do one.