BERNINA Domestic Quilting Tips

hello everybody I'm back this time to talk about long long arm short arm quilting with our Bernina domestic machines so let me turn it around here so you can see me all right thank you for joining us this is machine quilting with Bernina domestic machines and there's a lot to cover and hopefully there's a lot of you out there that will find at least one of these techniques helpful there are may feet many many many feet that you can use for quilting with Bernie and a sewing machine so we're gonna start first with some easy easy straight line quilting and that means that we can use one of two things I want to just point out a couple of feet here I'm gonna grab this little guy this little guy here this is the Bernina walking foot Bernina walking feet are available for pretty much every Bernina even the Bernina 830's and the red cases you can certainly use Bernina walking foot on those walking feet are designed to feed multiple layers of fabric which would be a quilt back batting and a quilt top it also is really helpful when you're trying to match plaid if you're doing very long seams it can be helpful and there's a lot of questions I've seen a lot of questions posted online about do I need a burn you know do I need a walking foot if I have the Bernina dual feed on my new Bernina 577 17 798 series machine and honestly maybe you probably do when I'm using my Bernina 770 I actually am using dual feed most of the time I'm not using super thick batting however it is it's a preference obviously if you're using the Bernina dual feed and you feel like you're not getting enough feed through really thick batting and things like that are happening then it's probably time to check this little guy out so the Bernina walking foot actually comes with a few other attachments they excuse the rattle of all of these tools in here so there's the open toe foot so the one that comes on it when you pull it out of the packaging is a closed toe foot see how it's kind of where the needle goes in there's some metal in front of that then they have the open toe version some people prefer to use these for stitch in the ditch or if you're using a zig-zag stitch or something or just simply trying to sew on top of a line you can see exactly where the needles going there's also this little number this is a stitch in the ditch foot or the soleplate with this central guide this is definitely very helpful for stitch in the ditch it's very helpful if you are someone that wants to sew your bindings on to your finished quilt so a lot of people sew the binding to the back of the material wrap it around to the front line this little guide up and then move the needle position to get a perfect top stitch so the Bernina walking foot comes with all three of these soles it also comes with this funny tool and left and right seam guides so if you've not heard there is this technique called cross hatching and cross-hatching is where you would draw one reference line then you would put a seam guide on and then line that seam guide up so that you get evenly spaced diamonds or checkerboard or something like that so these same guides will really help and sometimes you might do a project where you gonna line everything up on the right side then you change the guide put it on the left side then line everything up on the left side so in order to add the guides you put on this mystery piece right here it goes on just alike that and then you put your seam guide through ah but I don't know if they told you that they jump out of your lap when you're trying to do things in front of a camera so let's try it so I'm gonna loosen up our screw mmm protip put the hat on the correct way see how there's a hole back there that's for the screw and it follows that line just like that and then we can put our same guide on we can adjust the screw and we have our cross-hatching just the way we like it and we can line it up half an inch an inch 3/4 of an inch away 2 inches this is a pretty long seam guide so we can go out pretty far so I've got some magic swatches I'm going to put this walking foot on and then you can kind of see how this works so let's switch to the sewing view there it is so when you're putting the walking foot on its a it can be a little tricky because the idea is that you have this little fork dude and the little fork dude has to hold on to the needle screws so the first thing that I do is I put the fork dude over the needle screw then there's a little notch and it's hard to see here and there's a little notch that you have to slip that cone over and I'm just going to be very careful with Adams tripod I am not sure if that's really helping but let's see so the foot goes on in the cone goes over that little edge there and then you slip it on and pull your foot into place so that it's secure nicely okay so there it is with our guide and this guide is actually positioned one inch to the left of the center needle position now when you're doing straight line quilting it's also a good idea to just do a test on some fabric and batting and see what kind of stitch that is stitch length is working for the batting in the fabric choice that you've made in my situation I know that I like a three millimeter long stitch length when I do straight line quilting so I'm gonna get started and now to get started some people like to bring their bottom thread up to the top I am also that's some people so I'm using the heel tap feature on my foot control to bring my needle down bring my needle up then I'm using my free hand system to retrieve that bobbin thread loop just try again there I had little scissors that I'm wondering there somebody could hand me a little pair of scissors that's right straight down all right now I'm going to reach in there and get my little thrilling here comes all right we got it all right so now I'm just going to make an X from one corner to the other corner on this block I've elongated my stitch to three millimeters long and I have the default tension setting which is five now I'm gonna leave my needle down lift my presser foot and pivot and I'm just gonna stitch down a little bit until my left guide lines up with my previous stitching line I don't know if you can see that here on the video but I'm lining this guide up right here with my stitching line that's right there probably need to readjust the camera maybe now when I do something like this if I'm gonna be using a walking foot to like quilt a potholder or something like that I'll just quilt on the edge of that corner and then pivot and then come back again and line everything up kind of go back but you can see here this were a large quilt there would be a lot of pivoting to do so that is like a disadvantage of using the feed dogs and a walking foot or a dual feed foot but I mean that's as easy as it is is using the walking focus that you put it on you get the little fork on the screw and and then you go so I'm going to take this off and then I'm going to put on the number one D but with which has dual feed and now I'm going to just switch to the v to the view again here we are hello I've got three dual feed here in my little toolkit and I want to tell you the benefits of dual feed first of all there is a central guide dual feed foot available that's number 10 D there's obviously a number one dual feed foot most of you that have dual feed have this foot that came with your machine then there is 20 D that's the open toe version of that walking foot that I showed you now let's really talk about the benefit of this so the walking foot is not a coded foot so it can only do five and a half millimeter maximum stitch width so if you wanted to do some decorative quilting on your quilt you would actually lose some of the detail of the stitch so with these dual feed feet like this you can actually go as far as 9 millimeters wide if you have a 9 millimeter wide machine so that would be a benefit I'm I'm gonna put our good and trusty number 1 D foot on the machine and I'm gonna switch back to our sewing view and so when I'm putting the dual feed foot on I don't have dual feet activated yet I have my dwarf e foot on and then I'm going to take my hand and just wipe the back of the machine to bring the dual feed piece into place and you can see it right there I'm just gonna turn the light down just a little bit I think you'll be able to see the stitching a little bit better though and actually before I engage that goofy I should put my needle do the hole to pull that thread down under the foot all right so now I don't have a guide on this foot but I do there are guides that you can put on your dual feed foot they're available for Bernina you could buy a right and a left guide and if you want to buy the shorter ones they're not terribly expensive so I recommend buying the set then there's also a seam guide set with rulers that you can have so if you want to do larger space white cross hatching using the dual feed you have that option so I've got the dual feed on and I'm getting started off the edge of my material and I haven't changed my stitch length or needle position or anything like that and I add you're lying down with feet and I'm going to just and now I'm just gonna come down here and I'm gonna do I just want to do a loose decorative stitch of some kind right now I'm just trying to stitch number three zero one can see how easily I can go through all of the players with this decorative sketched on that fourth on top of itself then you can still imagine that if I were doing a decorative stitch like this or even if I go back to my straight stitch and I'm doing straight stitches even with a stitch like this my challenge if I'm doing a pothole or maybe a placemat or something like that but most of us will we quilt we're actually making a piece that is substantial in size so I'm going to just remove this from the machine and I want to talk a little bit about some alternatives to using walking feet and the dual feed feet hi it's me again over here alright so let's talk about a roller work foot so this is a free motion foot so now you know what the scariest thing that we're gonna do right now is actually drop our feed dogs so I'm gonna reach over here you might hear it on the audio there we go I just dropped my feed dogs and now I am using this foot now look at this foot and how odd it is because it's a free motion foot but it's really thick and this free motion foot is actually designed to be lined up against a ruler so in you start doing this work you've got your ruler work and then you're gonna actually push a ruler along it to get a straight line and I'm using the Amanda Murphy ruler there Amanda Murphy good measure rulers they've got the spray on the back so that it doesn't slip onto the quilting material onto your quilt so you can get a nice firm grip on it so your ruler doesn't wiggle around it has great markings on it there's 15 degrees 22 and 1/2 all different kinds in my world I usually use 90 45 and occasionally 60 and dirty but nonetheless you have them all here and so this little guy is what I used on this cuckoo clock so the cuckoo clock I actually did not use a walking foot on this that was done all with ruler work and when I quilted this cuckoo clock I never pivoted the clock everything I did the clock set just like this and I moved it so I never had to wiggle or anything like that and it was really easy so let me show you on our piece that we're already working on how easy it is to do ruler work straight line quilting without pivoting your piece all right so my feed dogs are dropped I have my piece back on here here's the foot threads the same I'm going to start over here now the presser the presser foot edge that lip on the presser foot to the needle is about a quarter of an inch so when I use my ruler I'm going to be looking at the 3/4 measurement on my ruler and if you don't know where that is our machines actually have a little ruler down below and so sometimes I have to use these to make sure I'm measuring in the right spot and so that's a corridor and then so this line right here that is spaced away that's a quarter of an inch this is 3/4 so I'm going to line the 3/4 line up to my previous stitching line and then that will give me an inch apart quilting distance so I'm going to start by bringing my thread up just like I did the last time I just want to line up to see where I'm going to get started here and I'm going to use my tweezers now I'm lining this up 3/4 of the inch from the edge and now here we go so I now I want to tell you a little story there's no stitch regulator on this you have to move it at a speed that you feel comfortable with and that's the scariest part about free motion quilting and then you'd have to stop with your needle down to kind of move your ruler so you can still keep a grip on it all right so now I've got to the edge and I told you I promised you I would do this without having to pivot so now I'm gonna stitch gotta get a better grip you know what I like if I don't get a good grip on something I like using these clothes and ruler quilting gloves so I'm gonna put on some quilting gloves will just help me give it now these are very light and they breathe but the ends have rubbery grippy grippy grips on them so the ends of your fingers are sticky all right so now I'm going to line this ruler back up on that 3/4 line it's got to go a little bit further here perfect perfect perfect now I'm actually going to be moving this backwards I can't tell you what a difference these gloves made and I'm just keeping that ruler straight right so now just like I did going up this way you do have to like start eyeballing a little bit and you'll get used to it so now be careful don't spit over your finger but look I have not I mean it if it's more comfortable for you to put the ruler on this side to kind of travel to get to where you need to go back you can certainly do that so now I don't want to pivot at all I'm gonna come back around down this way cuz I'm now going to echo on this side or not echo I'm going to start lining it up and I'm gonna go in this direction now I'm gonna quilt sideways thank you for sure everything is lined up the way I want it to be okay and now I'm going to go back in this direction here this direction now I probably would be old to get on the other side but because we're on camera I want you to speak exactly what's happening here but you can see this grid that's been created and that was much easier than pivoting and turning it might not look like it with a piece this small but trust me it does when you've got a lot of bulk in your lap so that's the basics of ruler work bell of course with anything else there are other rulers that you can get that you can go and make curves there's also rulers that these are Bernina rulers they don't really have all the guideline markings that the Amanda Murphy rulers do but you know this is kind of a multi-function one that you can use for lots of different shapes there's also good measure Amana marquee rulers that have feather designs ribbon candy designs just everything and you can kind of use little bits of them to do different things and I'm gonna bring this cuckoo clock back to show you because if we look at the cuckoo clock here you can see the clock face that was actually used with one of the wave rulers that I just echoed again and again kind of radiating from the clock shades I thought it kind of had a woodgrain texture to it and I thought that looked really interesting all right so I'm gonna put this swatch to rest in the museum of course and I'm gonna switch this out I'm gonna change feet I'm gonna turn it back around to so you can see me all right here we are wearing the gloves while I'm talking to you on camera feels a little weird so I'm gonna take them off can't think with the gloves on so that foot the roller work foot does work if you do have a q20 sit down quilting machine you do have this capability to use it on that machine as well one thing I didn't point out here is that there's there's a little brass ring on there that makes this adjustable so that you can do your free motion quilting through all different layers of material sometimes with a really thick quilt the you get a little bit of flagging because it's so thick so this would allow you to either back off of the material or push down on it a little bit more and there there's three feet that are adjustable that Bernina have another version and we're gonna use this in just a minute that's the micro stippling foot now some of you that have been doing quilting with Bernie and effete for a while might say well that looks just like to number 24 foot which is actually the original open toe quilting foot or open toe embroidery foot but this is actually opened up more and it's an aluminum color and it's not shiny so when those very bright fluorescent lights are shining down on it on you when you're trying to quilt there's less glare so it makes it easier to kind of use this foot for a long period of time especially if you're doing the free motion work you can't use this one with the ruler work though because of the thin the thinness of the bottom you can see the difference there but you know they're but you'd have a lot more visibility on this and I love this foot for doing micro stippling the other adjustable foot is brand new this is the adjustable cup clip foot and honestly this one I have used for very impractical purposes I have the quilters dream puff padding here which is it's pretty nice to be able to use this cup as you can see what you're getting is a lot of pressure down on puff anything with pile and then you're able to kind of adjust the height of it so that it can glide around whatever you're trying to free motion quilt or whatever you're trying to sew together and I'd say so together because my little buddy back here behind me the little penguin this is first of all I wish that you could reach into your computer screens and rub this little guy's belly it is so soft and it's now approaching my witching hour which is about 7:30 when I get really sleepy but anyway this little guy is made from Shannon fabrics cuddle fabric and it's super soft super luxurious I think this is the lux cuddle nonetheless I had been trying to figure out the best way to make this little penguin because I you know a different machine and and so forth and honestly I sewed everything together on that penguin with a foot like this free motion slowly just going around the little guy and it was so much faster so much easier the hardest part about sewing with fur is the aftermath of vacuuming up all the fur but anyway this is in the class I'm making a penguin this is a class on using the different quilting feet so we're going to visit this guy in just a moment finally for your free motion quilting experiences there's also this this is the Bernina stitch regulator foot the Bernina stitch regulator foot works like a mouse our little mouse it's got like the little red light in it and when we move a mouse across pewter screen the little pointy white clicker thing goes across the screen as fast as you move it and tracks it well this Bernina stitch regulator has a little red lady thing that goes across the material and can read things on the material and then it instead of moving a cursor across the screen it's regulating the speed of the machine's motor so when you are using your foot control with this little foot you're actually just using the foot control as an on and off button you're holding it on and it's doing its thing and you can stop and the machine stops you start sewing and then the Machine starts going and every variation in between and you can even set how long you want the stitches to be set just like with a straight stitch you can say I want it to be two millimeters long or I want it to be three millimeters long and just like the walking foot the Bernina stitch regulator foot comes with three different soles we have the open toe sole on it right now this is the closed toe sole and then this is the kind of cup clip sole that can be available on the stitch regulator now drat the stitch regulator is not really suitable for doing ruler work and it also is something that you once you want this is to help you take the urgency out of your free motion quilting and I think that it take it makes you not hold your breath while you're doing quilting because free motion can be a little bit of something that gets a lot of people anxious about starting so what I'm gonna do first is so those were the adjustable feet and that was the stitch regulator don't forget there's also feet like this this is the old-fashioned free motion quilting foot that does not have any stitch regulation or anything like that if you're somebody that likes to put the pedal to the metal devil-may-care attitude this might be your foot but we're gonna start off with the stitch regulator and so we're gonna go back to the sewing view okay so I'm gonna put the stitch regulator foot on the little cone fits into the reservoir and then there is this headphone jack that fits on the back of the machine there's like a headphone receptacle and have to tell you it's a little difficult trying to do it without knocking the camera over but there I just got it so now when you plug this machine in or let when you plug the Bernina stitch regulator into the machine its gonna give you a whole new screen and you only have the choice of two stitches straight stitch and zigzag and then you also have the choice between mode 1 and mode 2 so I'm putting my gloves back on and then I'm gonna grab a new piece of material and then I am going to just do a little doodling so I can show you the difference between Bernina stitch regulator mode 1 and mode 2 I'm gonna bring my thread up from the bottom and use my little tweezers so you can see what I'm doing okay now in mode 1 when I firmly press my foot down see how it's kind of stitching in place that's because it's tacking if you get started I'm moving around in my little warme shape you know this Furby kind of distance that I'm doing your sniffling I think my stitches are a little close together so I'm actually gonna use my stitch length the knob and I'm gonna elongate my stitches to 3.0 millimeters okay so now let's let's give this a go again now you can see that the machine doesn't seem like it's going nearly as fast you can see that red light that red light is just like our mouse light regulating how I am moving the material through the machine so I want to do something really quick for you I'm going to move this really fast and I want you to hear what happens well it would have helped if I didn't turn the siren off okay see how the machine is beeping that red is beeping at me here that means that I'm moving it a little too fast for what the machine can keep up with I don't think you can see it on the video let me just move it up a little bit there we go alright see how my lights green is saying ready to go no problem but now just start sewing you know it's laughing thanks I can't keep up with your expert quilting hands okay now see how I stop moving my hands and the needles rhythmically going up and down I am actually gonna change to mode 2 because mode 2 is what I would use most often when I'm doing a background feel like stippling so now lights on but nothing's happening until I move the material now I stop now that's fine and dandy but if I were doing a motif where I wanted to start and stop they not have to bury my threads under the quilt and things like that I could go back to mode 1 and now I got my stitch and now let's say I'm gonna do my little part get back to where I started I want to kind of knot it and now I'm done I hit my thread cutter and now I've made my heart or more like my little leaf or whatever the case is but the idea is that tell I ended my stitch and I just have a little tool there that I can cut with my little snippy scissors and now when you're quilting and you do want to follow a motif there's a lot of different ways to do that you can trace with a lightbox you can trace on aqua mesh stabilizer and then quilt and then wash it and all of your tracing marks will go away with the stabilizer with the wash away stabilizer a lot of people will find inspiration in the blocks and do different type of work but that really is something where you can just experiment and honestly some people are better at just doodling with the needle and others need like a line to follow I'm gonna switch back to web view but then I'm gonna grab something that I want to show you because this is a technique that I love to play around with alright give me one second all right here is Florence the Flamingo this is an Elizabeth Hartman pattern and Florence the Flamingo the background is this grey and it just needed something to make it exciting so I started making or quilting this specific design that would have taken me forever to actually mark onto the material okay so what I did is I turned the quilt upside down and I quilted it from this side and used the pattern it in this fabric to actually be my all-over quilting design and it's a great way to practice doing any kind of motif this one this fabric is a little busier than what I would really like to start off with but it's what I had at home I didn't have a story at the time with a bunch of fabric to choose from and so I have started this and I committed to it but I think I might have some time to finish this one up in the next couple of weeks so that is another way that you can take this to a whole new level but I'm going to put this aside and I'm going to just do a block that I started and I know you out there the sassy Sohus and you're gonna make fun of this because this is the block with the funky colors and I'm gonna use this block until it just disintegrates I swear so this it's my little variable star block from a patchwork patterns class that we did but I'm just going to take this as an opportunity to just do a little kind of my circular design around this this piece to kind of show you how you can use a block to kind of give you inspiration for how you're going to quilt a design so let's let's go back to the sewing view I'm putting on the gloves and another thing is I like to kind of bury my thread in the corner of something seems to you know not be as noticeable that way so I'm gonna put the needle down bring the needle up now I am MBSR mode 1 which means that when I start sewing the needle is rhythmically gonna go up and down now I'm sorry but my little hand is gonna hide this for just a minute as I get started okay so now my goal is to quilt a little semicircle to the corner a little semicircle here and I'm gonna go around and I'm gonna do something else around the square now I know that some of you at home that have might have actually know a little bit about ruler work if I didn't want to use the stitch regulator I could have used a ruler work and some kind of semi circular piece to actually do something similar on this or a subtle curve like this to line it up on the material in line that ruler work well ruler work around the edge but you know that's okay because some of us if you're really beginning you need that of the capabilities of the Bernina stitch regulator all right so here I go so I just made curve one from one corner to the next and I'm going to go to about that same degree to this corner over here okay now I'm gonna do the same here and I'm going to try my very - dart hardest not to pivot but I'm good at making these corners sometimes in a different way alright so I've gone around and now I'm going to do that same technique to go around the raccoon block [Music] tada [Music] and now I give you a fancy raccoon now look at that quilting inside that raccoon that's even fancier that looks so perfect it's hard to see it from there but I can turn it around for you here look at that you know why that's so perfect cuz that was an embroidery design so this was hooked up in an embroidery machine and the motif was float to the mess all right so we're almost done I just have a couple more things that I want to show you but I wanted to take a minute to kind of show you the raccoon so you could see it better outside of the machine so we did that little thing and you can see how it adds dimension to our points and everything so the next thing that I want to do is I'm going to use that micro stippling foot and I'm gonna do micro stippling in the background piece this this black and white area so it's gonna look fantastic with this gray thread clouds are going back on all right so the minute I remove the stitch regulator and unplug it from the back of the machine that screen changes and now you hear the Bernina burp and then we get back into just a regular free motion non stitch regulated mode so I'm going to trim this off put that away of course it'll stick to these gloves all right so now I'm gonna start stitching in the outside of this because the idea was stippling is that you start in one spot you go around and then you end if the spot that you started in and typically stippling is going to be the Wiggles so I think I'm making little worms so here we go I do want to adjust my stitch length to be a little closer together for this because micro stippling think of it think of it like this they can tell different points of a Sharpie draw differently you wouldn't want to do really detailed tiny sketch with a fat sharpie marker so we're going to do really tiny quilting so we want to use a shorter stitch here it goes [Music] oh and I just realized it's late remember my witching hour is at 7:30 that if you were gonna use the Bernina stitch regulator you would want to adjust your stitch length to a little length but I took the stitch regulator off so really the tiny stitches is just up to me by how fast or slow I press the foot control I hope that didn't confuse anyone but here's the deal for sake of time I'm just gonna do this one little corner and show it to you but you know this could be one of those like videos that people watch to be stress and fall asleep oh yeah okay we're here we're doing a video alright so there's our little tiny stippling and see the goal of stippling to is like I said you make little worms and you don't want to cross over a previous worm so you want to get from point A to point B with the Wiggles and no loop-de-loops or anything so takes a little practice I've been doing this a while so I really enjoy it and I really like to do it and as you can see it totally relaxed me because I almost fell asleep alright so now eventually the so nice asus set the so nice assest this sassy Sohus this is going to be finished and I am going to mail it to you and sign it okay now I have one more thing to show you and I think I've lost but the world will go oh I see it it's over here excuse me you might want to make a quilt that has puffy puffy puff puff on it and just like I was mentioning earlier is there's actually a foot designed for the puffy puff or materials with pile and things like that and it's this adjustable cup clip foot so I'm gonna put this on the machine and then go around our banana and I am gonna sing a little song because we sing it all the time here because we had this backing this is Toula backing that went with her monkey wrench collection and we always are like bananas and pajamas and we'd like make these bananas and pajamas to everything bananas and pyjamas are quilting at the fair you fill in the blank you're welcome for putting that in your head all right so I'm changing the micro stippling foot to be adjustable and I'm gonna put some gloves on again all right so I like when I go around a design oh my here it is there's the drip when I go around a design for whatever reason I like to start in a dick and there's a dip right here in this banana I'm gonna put my heel part of my foot down bring it up again use my tweezers to grab my thread there it is I see it it doesn't like to come through all that tough all right so I'm gonna go around the banana slowly at first tack my stitches into place a little bit and you know in this world there are clockwise people and there are counterclockwise people most people will go clockwise not me I prefer to go counterclockwise now this is actually puffy batting and puffy batting should be sewn together with a longer stitch so I'm going to try to control my speed of my potential it's hard because I really like to go fast now I have to stop so I can reposition my hands now I'm stopping at that point now I'm going to come around again I'm going a little too fast gotta slow down again you I probably need to do not just the banana but the banana field just from that so now I'm gonna come around again the way the inside of the banana now it's okay to go back a little bit and come down yeah I'm doing it and then I'm gonna come do the healing do my little stitch in place and cut and now I have stitched around a banana with the puffy batting I think I have to turn it around easily for you to see so there's our puffy banana there's the other side nice little puffy banana so I can't think of a better way to end this video then with banana fabric and puffy batting so I would like to thank all of you that tuned in this evening it was really fun showing you all of these different Bernina feet and I will be posting this video to our YouTube channel it'll be available on Twitch for some for a couple of weeks as well but we'll get it up on YouTube and when you visit youtube don't forget to search for Bernina vapor ville and like us comment and subscribe and then if that's not enough if you hit if you click the bell you'll get alerts when we post new videos so join us and thank you so much and stay safe

Channel: BERNINA of Naperville

Views: 32,174

Keywords: quilt, sewing, DIY, crafts, BERNINA, free motion quilting, straight line quilting, walking foot, BSR, Stitch Regulator

Id: mZkKPWpM7nQ

Length: 54min 41sec (3281 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 26 2020