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I use a walking foot on a Singer 201 and always sew my strips the same direction and have never had any bowing ever!
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Originally Posted by woohoowendy
I think after cutting the thread, pressing, going downstairs to get coffee, answering the phone, picking up scraps off the floor . . . . . I will SURELY forget which direction I was sewing when sewing a whole bunch of strips.
Does anyone have an easy method for remembering which direction you sewed each strip? |
Originally Posted by TonnieLoree
Originally Posted by mpeters1200
That is so weird. Are there any ideas about why this happens?
I have a project going where I'll only need 3 strips, but it's something I can practice on since I have to make 13 sets of the 3 strips. I have never heard of that before. I'm hoping with 13 strip sets I can hammer out a way to try and keep all that together. I've always sewn them in one direction so they are all even on one side. That just seems so weird to me. |
Originally Posted by greenini
Fons and Porter sell arrow pins and I've found them for cheap at Tues Am, but still cheaper is the yellow flat flower pins, take a magic marker and draw an arrow on them...or leave your strip set in the machine at the end of the seam you just sewed. Then when you come back, you will always know you need to start that new seam at the end that is under the foot.
BTW, I think it does make a difference. Before I knew to do this I made some really bowed sets! |
Originally Posted by woohoowendy
I think after cutting the thread, pressing, going downstairs to get coffee, answering the phone, picking up scraps off the floor . . . . . I will SURELY forget which direction I was sewing when sewing a whole bunch of strips.
Does anyone have an easy method for remembering which direction you sewed each strip? Should I just use a perm. marker to mark an arrow in the seam allowance at the start of each strip? Or maybe there's an even easier solution . . . . please post any ideas. Thanks! |
I don't pay any attention to the direction I sew my strips. I do spend a lot of time prepping my fabric with starch and ironing before I cut, and I always check that the tension and presser foot pressure is correct before I sew those strips. I don't have the bowing problem. Then again, I don't sew 30 strips together, either.
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I always use my dual-feed (walking) foot on my two Vikings (6460 and Sapphire) and Bernina 150 for sewing any long strips together, as well as for any borders, pieced or plain. The walking foot came with the Bernina which is also called the Quilters Edition.
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I also do the two strip method and it works very well..
Originally Posted by AnnieF
I was reading a blog and the woman was talking about making scrappy strip quilts....her specialty....you know the ones where you cut all the fabrics by width of fabric and just arrange them in rows. She said the way she conquers the bowing of the strips is by sewing the strips by twos....and then sewing the 2-strip sections together...and then the 8-strip sections. Apparently she says that by having 2 strips sewn, it stabilizes the fabric and you don't have to do that right to left and left to right sewing. It's worth a shot.
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it is the action of the feed dogs pulling to the back the the action of the pressure foot pushing forward.
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Yes I have noticed that happens, so on my last lone star I alternated the way I stitched the strips together and then did not have a problem.
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