quilting on an embroidery machine
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Hi ! I'm looking for advice. I have a bernina 180. I designed a circle feather motif to fit in my 4 inch squares on my quilted pillow sham that I'm making. It sews out great and fast - 1 minute! But it takes me about an hour of !$%#! and pulling my hair out to center it in the hoop. It's too thick to fit the inner hoop on, so I'm using some sticky stabilizer to hold the square in place to the outer hoop - but that's under the quilt, so I'm having a horrible time trying to center to what I can't see!!! Any ideas?
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I have 180 and one year i did a tablecloth w matching napkins 20 of them i hooped two layers of stabilizer n cut out the middle part for the design. Then i just pinned the napkins on the stabilizer. Maybe this will help.
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On the back of your fabric using a water soluble or chalk marker, draw a + from edge to edge.
Then do the same thing on your stabilizer. line up your fabric on the + on your stabilizer and it will be perfectly centered.
I have done it like that for years and never had a problem.
I will do a tute and post it in a little while.
Then do the same thing on your stabilizer. line up your fabric on the + on your stabilizer and it will be perfectly centered.
I have done it like that for years and never had a problem.
I will do a tute and post it in a little while.
#8
Originally Posted by lesliequilts
Hi ! I'm looking for advice. I have a bernina 180. I designed a circle feather motif to fit in my 4 inch squares on my quilted pillow sham that I'm making. It sews out great and fast - 1 minute! But it takes me about an hour of !$%#! and pulling my hair out to center it in the hoop. It's too thick to fit the inner hoop on, so I'm using some sticky stabilizer to hold the square in place to the outer hoop - but that's under the quilt, so I'm having a horrible time trying to center to what I can't see!!! Any ideas?
#9
Originally Posted by quiltlonger
No when you figure it out let ME know I gave up trying to do things with my Janome 8000 after purchasing 3 different EXPENSIVE hoops could never be happy where it decided to QUILT
Originally Posted by sewnsewer2
On the back of your fabric using a water soluble or chalk marker, draw a + from edge to edge.
Then do the same thing on your stabilizer. line up your fabric on the + on your stabilizer and it will be perfectly centered.
I have done it like that for years and never had a problem.
I will do a tute and post it in a little while.
Then do the same thing on your stabilizer. line up your fabric on the + on your stabilizer and it will be perfectly centered.
I have done it like that for years and never had a problem.
I will do a tute and post it in a little while.
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