BONUS VIDEO: Tips for Large Quilts Using End-to-End Quilting with your Embroidery Machine from DBJJ

hi everybody it's becky from power tools with thread i am here today to make this supplemental video for designs by juju's end-to-end quilting designs the response from you guys has been overwhelming you are just loving the ability to finish your quilting projects using designs by juju's end-to-end quilting designs because i've received many emails and lots of comments on the video and i wanted to take some time to cover some of that stuff and then answer a few of your questions and give you some additional tips and tricks to work on finishing larger quilt projects most of you who want to finish your projects using your embroidery machine are doing so on projects such as placemats table runners wall hangings maybe something as large as a baby quilt but some of you have gotten pretty ambitious and you want to finish larger quilts using your embroidery machine well one of the things that we've come across when people want to finish quilts that are lap size or larger is that they have a little bit of difficulty getting the designs to stay straight across a project so one remedy that you can do for that that i have found very very helpful is to create yourself some registration lines in order to keep your designs straight what i have here in front of me we're going to pretend is a very large quilt this is a queen size it's actually just two pieces of fabric it's about two yards so i have a queen size quilt and i've got it in two separate colors so that one side is the right side of the quilt and one side is the left side of the quilt so if you have yourself a very large quilt and you say well now i'm going to finish this in my embroidery machine there's a couple of things you need to take into consideration so on my very large quilt right here i have ironed creases in the quilt and the creases will pretend are going to be seam lines for rows of quilt blocks one of the easiest ways to line up your designs is to place them so that they the bottom of the design is on a seam line for a row of quilt blocks that's very easy that way you know this one goes right here it's it ends on this seam line and we'll say this is the top and then we know the top of the design is going to come right up to the seam line as well so having a seam line as a way to align your blocks is very helpful but what happens when you have a situation like this and the seam line is down here so i'm going to move up just a little bit you have a row of embroidery that has finished but the bottom of it there's no seam line to match it up to so the easiest way to do this is to take a ruler and you want to measure down from the top of the design to the bottom and for instance this one measures out at seven and a half so i'm going to make a tick mark at seven and a half and you want to do that at i would do it at seven and a half all the way down from where the top of the previous design above it started and you would do this straight across then you would use a piece of painters tape this is just an easy way to do this and take the painters tape and line up the edge of the painters tape with the tick marks you made with your ruler and this is going to make sure the painters tape is straight once that's done you can take some bright embroidery floss now you want to use embroidery floss because the painters tape will not stay on the project it won't take the manhandling of getting the fabric in and out of the hoop so i make long one inch running stitches on the project and i make them about two or three inches apart and what this does i bring up the needle right next to the painters tape by doing this i'm creating a permanent marking line for where to align the next pass of the designs just like this you want to do this in long stitches in bright embroidery floss so that if by chance your embroidery design passes over the stitch line you can pull it out very easily you would want to do this for the entire length of the quilt if you're doing half and half or if you have a very large quilt you might want to do it in quadrants one quarter at a time so now i'm only going to do half just for the purpose of the video now that i've got this done i can pull up my painters tape and i can tell exactly where that line needs to be and now i can use the print and stick target paper that i used before and perfectly align the design and that's going to keep the design from kind of drooping the way it has a tendency to do but you don't realize it so that is a technique that you can use to keep your rose straight in between seam lines on your quilt top once you've finished stitching out your design it's very simple to just take this thread and it will pull right out of your project so in my original video i talked about starting in the middle of the quilt and you don't necessarily have to start right on the edge like you would think and try to get them all to size exactly inside the edges of your quilt even when you are going to a long armor the long armor will start the quilting pattern off the edge and the quilting pattern will repeat until it finishes off the edge of the other end of the quilt and then the quilt is trimmed that way those edges are captured up inside of the quilt binding so don't get all hung up on trying to start it exactly on an edge and then try to get that to fit that's why you need larger pieces of backing so if you were to kind of eyeball it in the middle and say okay i want this to start right here figure out where that is going to give you an idea of how your quilt will start or just make sure you have enough on one side and stitch and stitch and stitch and stitch and if it stitches off the outside you have two options you can either have enough backing fabric so that it can continue and finish the run or when it gets to a certain point that it is off the fabric and it's no longer going to pass back on then just stop the machine and and stop the pattern from running you've got to kind of think like a long armor would if you are going to do this to finish your quilts you want to choose a size that's going to fit best based on the scale of your project and you want to go ahead and if you want something like right in the middle or maybe you want to start it right here figure out where that's going to stop place this and then begin over here i'm going to scooch down a little bit here so you guys can see the table and see me at the same time so we've got this great big queen size quilt we have stitched across one half of it and every time we make a pass we are rolling up the quilt as we go and finally we've gotten to the point where there's so much quilt in the throat of the machine we can't get any more in there and it's really causing a lot of drag on the embroidery machine so the time has come to switch the quilt around 180 degrees when you stitch out the quilt design and it is face up to you and you have to turn the quilt around now you have to figure out how to get the design to stitch out so it is in the proper orientation to the design on the other side of the quilt well if you have a quilt design that is like a stipple or maybe it's a bunch of daisies or something like that that's not really going to be that big of a deal because in the long run you're not going to be able to tell one way or the other that the other half was actually quilted upside down because you had to flip the quilt around 180 degrees however if you have a quilt design like this let's look at these little dinosaurs these dinosaurs the head is up here the feet are down here and it is directional in every way possible this is a 7x7 design these designs are digitized to stitch from left to right i've got green and red dots marking the direction that the dinosaurs are going to stitch you want this design to stitch left to right and make sure that it is upright to you and so we decided we were going to stitch this half of the quilt and this dinosaur is face up to me so you want to pay attention to this dinosaur's head right here i've kind of put a little orange square around his head so if i simply flip the design horizontal in a software like in brilliance essentials now i can stitch it upside down on the other half of this quilt that's going to be okay it's going to stitch from left to right which is what i need for it to do but the problem is is that the head is opposite from where it needs to be now if you have a very busy fabric or very busy pattern it may not be noticeable that's going to be completely up to you if you want to do that but if you want to get it so that it looks like right on the other half of your quilt you can also do something in stitch artist which is another module of in brilliance in a brilliant stitch artist it does what is called a reverse point order and the reverse point order will allow you to flip the design so that the head starts in the same corner as the other half did but now it stitches from left to right instead of right to left so this is what's called a reverse point order instead of stitching like this with the heads together now it is stitching with the heads in the same corner of the design and you can stitch it from left to right on this half of the quilt if you have a great big quilt and you've decided to finish it in your embroidery machine the easiest way to handle this is to contact designs by juju's customer service and they will be happy to send you a set of reverse point order designs for free you just need to include your order number showing that you already purchased the pattern and they will send them to you no problem well you might be thinking well why don't they just send them to me that way in the first place well there's kind of a practicality issue to this there are hundreds of end-to-end quilting designs in the designs by juju library every one of those quilting designs has a file in it for every single home embroidery machine type and inside of each one of those home embroidery machine types there are 10 to 12 different sizes in one direction horizontal and in another direction vertical for every one of the sizes so we're talking about thousands of design files that's why designs by juju is very happy to go ahead and send you a copy of the reverse point order designs all you need to do is send them an email with your order number and they'll be happy to send them to you i'm assuming that you have already watched the first video if you haven't please go back and check that out there's lots of good little details in there on how these designs work now the rest of this video is going to be showing you how to do a reverse point order stitch of your very own using a brilliance stitch artist one in in brilliant stitch artists you are given some additional buttons across the top menu and this one right here next to the preferences is called stitch edit mode we're going to be using this tool to edit the design to create a reverse point order i'm going to open up my dinosaurs by clicking my yellow folder at the bottom and here they are and bring them over just for a point of reference i'm going to run the stitch simulator so that you can see it starts here and ends over here so the stitch simulator is up here at the top i'm going to click that button and i'm going to make it just a little bit faster so we're not here all day and i'm going to click play and you can see it starts on the left and it finishes over on the right so now i want to edit this so that it will stitch out upside down and still stitch from left to right i'm going to get out of the stitch simulator mode this is important because we need the horizontal flipping buttons and you don't see them when the stitch simulator is on i'm going to highlight the dinosaurs in the objects panel so that everything is selected i'm going to go into stitch edit mode and you can see that it has kind of turned into little individual stitches now i'm going to make sure that it is selected again i'm going to select all you see the individual stitches i'm going to hover over the stitches anywhere on the design right click and choose reverse now let's run the stitch simulator again and you'll see now it's running from right to left and that's what we want we're going to highlight it in the objects panel one more time get out of stitch simulator we're going to flip vertical now it's upside down we're going to flip horizontal now when we run the stitch simulator again it's running from left to right just like we need you would say file save stitch file as and put it into your machine's home embroidery file format and take it over to your machine so i hope this video was helpful i hope it answered a lot of your questions about how to do alignment on larger quilts and how you can create your own reverse point order stitches if you are so inclined to do that we'll talk to you soon go sew something bye

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Length: 16min 50sec (1010 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 22 2021