Decorative Quilting With a Walking Foot (Jacquie Gering's Stitch Journal) | Quilting Inspiration

so let's look at what we need to do decorative stitches with our machine some of us have electronic machines and they have loads and loads of stitches and very honestly most of us use a straight stitch and maybe a zig zag and nothing beyond that and you know we have these great machines with all this potential we need to unlock that and so that's what I like to do with decorative stitches so decorative stitches will work with either your walking foot or remember the ITF the integrated dual feed foot with that little little slot on the back there it is there's that little slot so we either need to use our dual feed or a regular walking foot for decorative stitches and there are certain decorative stitches that actually work better with this integrated dual feed foot and I'll show you those a little bit later in the lesson it's also really important to have the correct stitch plate in your machine if you look carefully this stitch light you'll notice that there is a large open area here this is a nine millimeter stitch plate and a lot of us when we're doing our free motion quilting or some straight line walking quilting it's good to use a single hole needle plate if you use a single hole needle plate with a decorative stitch you have a broken needle ask me how I know that I've forgotten to change from my single hole to this open 9 millimeter stitch plate and very first stitch BAM broke my needle so please remember to put in this nice open stitch plate because we're going to be using stitches that are going to make use of that opening okay so let's think potential I like to play and this is a really good example of hours and hours of stitch play it doesn't look very pretty and it's not but I spend loads of time just punching stitch numbers and stitching because guys if we don't do that we don't know what the stitches on our machine will do some of us have kind of just barely computerized machines and you know they don't have hundreds of stitches but they do have stitches that you can use for walking foot quilting and I'm going to show you those let's just look at this Bernina for example right now I'm on the straight stitch screen and the straight stitch has just the regular straight stitch that I use for piecing but it also has utility stitches and utility stitches are things like blind hem stitches the serpentine stitch that we all know is stitch number four that we use for that great wavy quilting that we did in our last class and it has stitches that they're not traditionally thought of as quilting stitches and you know when somebody says they're not traditionally thought of as a quilting stitch I might but could they work and I've explored these utility stitches and even if you don't have a high-end fancy machine you're going to have those utility stitches and I'm going to show you a quilt later that's quilted out with a blind hem stitch believe it or not and it creates an amazing texture beautiful quilting on this machine sometimes you know this is a computer and it's kind of scary to touch these buttons but we just have to go for it because it's our machine and we need to make it work for us so the decorative stitch symbol is right here it's this little wavy symbol and I'm just going to pop that and look what pops up massive stitch potential all these folders and if I scroll just one it takes me all the way down to the 17:01 so I guess there's six folders on that and one two three four five eight folders on that look at all and all of those folders are filled with decorative stitch options I'm going to tell you right now that not all of them are going to work for walking foot quilting of them for example I can see right now in the 501 in the 500 series those are satin stitches so I would avoid satin stitches for walking foot quilting because they just take too much time and too much thread they're beautiful but they don't want work for walking foot quilting if I go into the 600's I start to see all sorts of stitches with interesting shapes interesting designs and that's where this comes in that's when I start punching a stitch number and starting to stitch it out and I just stitch it out until I find something that looks like it will work for quilting and because there are so many stitches on this machine and I have an electronic machine at home that has lots of stitches once I find a stitch that works I want to remember it and so I've created a stitch journal I actually learned this from the stupendous stitching class that's on crafts II she's created a stitch Bible verse is a little different than mine but I thought what a great idea and so I've applied that to walking foot quilting so let's look at my stitch journal so this is my stitch journal I've got it on this ring and it hangs in my studio so it's really easily accessible there are directions in your class materials for how I made this but essentially I just started with like ten by twelve quilt sandwiches this is an actual quilt sandwich with a back batting and a front so that I could stitch out these designs and that really nasty thing I just showed you with all those stitches so I would stitch out and when I would find a stitch that worked then I would come to my stitch journal and stitch out that stitch so I didn't have to look at that really nasty thing to find the stitch I like I can come in this really organized journal and look at this stitch and if we look really carefully you can see right here there's a little label on this stitched out stitch this is number six 64 and so I know if I want to use this design on one of my quilts all I have to do is go to that 600 folder and look for 664 and punch that stitch but honestly that's not enough information and before I go to the second part of my stitch journal I just want to show you the potential here first of all that's pretty thick right guys there are I think 12 of these and look at all these beautiful designs and I mean so seriously look at that look at that that I can do on a quilt there are just hundreds and hundreds of designs here I want to show you something else that I've done in this journal so if you look really closely you can see that this is all the 763 stitch this is 763 a this is 763 B this is 763 C and this is 763 D so only one stitch but for different options and without stitching them out in my stitch Journal I wouldn't really know and with my brain I honestly wouldn't remember that there were four different options for that stitch and so that's why I'm stitching out all the options that I figured out on that kind of nasty-looking stitch out sheet but look at the potential for all of these quilting stitches so many quilts so little time you

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Length: 8min 36sec (516 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 07 2016