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This is going to sound so dumb but I still don't know how to do most of the stitches that most machines are capable of. It is a simple stitch that I want to do.
I want to top stitch seams together - it is on something that no one will really see - actually corn bags - but the seams have to be very strong. I actually tried a zig zag stitch but it didn't seem like it would hold very well. I don't want corn falling out all over the bed - LOL. The reason I don't want to sew it on the wrong side and turn it is because I want to make a good many different channels and fill them as I go - fill them and make another channel. Does that make sense? I'm enclosing a picture (not a very good one) to show you one I made and had a heck of a time having made it the way I explained - sewing and turning it - then filling it with corn and trying to make channels. Oh well, maybe someone will understand and come up with the stitch I should be using. Thanks! Pat |
If I understand this correctly, I would just turn the fabric ends inside and then use just a reg. stitch. I would adjust my stitch length to like 1.5 - 1.8 though to make it a very tight stitch.
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I can't help you with your machine, but with a corn bag idea. I sew mine, turn it right side out, and then topstitch partial channels. Then I fill one end and shake them down until I have room to stitch the end shut.
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There is a triple stitch that is very strong. Itgoes forward, backward and then forward again for each stitch.
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The triple stitch on the machine is #5 that works great for this sort of thing
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that is the stitch i would use also
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Pat, it's not dumb at all cause we all get to learn something.
I have to admit I never knew about this stitch. I'll have to try that tomorrow. |
I too make corn bags. I love the way you do them. It is so much fun to learn from all of you. Your stitching ideas are great too. On my Pfaff there is a "quilting" stitch, which also goes back and forth. This may be similar. By the way, we sew ours and turn them and have never lost a kernal of corn. Funny though, I was heating up two of them (quite hot) to put in a cooler to keep a nail gun warm and I heard a couple of kernals pop. Why were we keeping the gun warm, you may ask? Because we were using it in -9 F degree weather and they say they only work to 29 degrees or so. The cooler and hot corn bags worked like a charm. Who knew???
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Originally Posted by quiltstodo
The triple stitch on the machine is #5 that works great for this sort of thing
Pat |
Welcome glad I could help
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[quote=stitchofclass2]I too make corn bags. I love the way you do them. It is so much fun to learn from all of you. Your stitching ideas are great too. On my Pfaff there is a "quilting" stitch, which also goes back and forth. This may be similar. By the way, we sew ours and turn them and have never lost a kernal of corn. quote]
I have always done mine the way you do - sewing it and then turning it. But then when I made the one for the neck the corn (it calls for 9 cups) just klunked (ya know what I mean - LOL)from one end to the other and although it was all done I sewed a seam down thru the middle of it. Then I still wasn't satisfied because the corn on each side still had to much room to roam - so I made another channel on each side - again trying to sew with the corn in it and trying to keep it out from under the needle. That seemed like too much work - but it worked and I love it. I could only find 40 lb bags of corn (lots of corn but only 7.50) and I decided I better use some of it up so yesterday I decided to make another one and I love the ones that go around the neck and sit on my shoulder (sore from sitting here at the puter reading the forum too long - ha ha) - Wellllll, it was more of a pain in the betute doing it this way. IF I make another one that size it will be made the way I made the first one. And, BTW, I don't know how to make a short story short - LOL! Pat |
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