What stitch length do you use for piecing?
01-25-2014, 10:45 PM
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01-25-2014, 11:37 PM
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I use about 12 stitches per inch on my old Singer (bout 2.1 mm), and whatever the default is on my Janome (I think 2.5?). 1.8 would be too hard to pick out for the number of mistakes I make.
The numbers are stitch length in millimeters, so they should be standard across manufacturers. 1 inch = 25 mm, so a stitch length of 2.5 should be equivalent to 10 stitches per inch.
What do these numbers on the machine mean? Is it in millimeters or in fractions of an inch? Do they all mean the same stitch length across all manufacturers?
I thought you were supposed to use the little ruler that came with the machine to measure how many stitches to the inch and go by that. 10-12 stitches to the inch is standard?
If I sewed at 2.5 on my Janome it would be maybe 8 stitches to the inch. Not many, in any case.
I thought you were supposed to use the little ruler that came with the machine to measure how many stitches to the inch and go by that. 10-12 stitches to the inch is standard?
If I sewed at 2.5 on my Janome it would be maybe 8 stitches to the inch. Not many, in any case.
01-26-2014, 03:56 AM
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I drop down to 1.8 for piecing and 1.5 for paper piecing. I do some basting at around 2.5-3 when I am paper piecing and have to match a lot of points, when the meet up good I usually leave the basting stitches in and go back at 1.5. Hard to remove, you bet, but the stitches don't show and I feel confident they will hold.
01-26-2014, 06:39 AM
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I set my Brothers 1500 at 3-. My thought for this is that if I was doing hand piecing or quilting what size would I be able to hand sew. I am sure that I could not sew 10-12 stitches per inch. I may rethink this a little since you can sometimes see my stitches when presssing seams to side.
01-26-2014, 08:27 AM
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On my babylock I drop it down to 1.4 or 1.6, on my vintage singers I'm in the low 20s range for piecing. Yes I like a tiny stitch, I passed on a janome jem because the stitch wouldn't go short enough for me.
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