Gina's Pro Tips - Sew along Easy Striped Table Runner

hi this is kathy drew from gina's bernina sewing center here in beautiful knoxville tennessee today we're going to be helping you make a beautiful table runner this would be a great project for the beginning quilter so don't be afraid to start and if you're in the mood to teach your children how to sew i think you'll enjoy doing that as well it'll be a good project for them we're going to be using some lovely border prints and it's going to be an easy table runner for you to make we're going to start at the cutting and we're going to finish with quilting and binding so be sure and watch all the parts of the video and you can actually do a stitch along with me all right first off let's talk about some of the things that i always have on hand and i think you should too before you start your project one of the things of course will be your fabrics your border prints but you're also going to need a pattern this particular pattern is by the quilting company what's the lady's name on the front oh and i've got brandy here with me she's helping me yeah she's helping me and it is called the easy strip table easy striped table runner i'll get it out in a minute it's early in the morning and i haven't had my second cup of coffee you can really make this any length you want it but her particular pattern gives you the yardage and everything that you need to make one that's about 16 by 45 inches now what you'll also need in addition to this pattern is you will need a 60 degree triangle ruler this is a creative grids ruler and this is what we're going to be using just cut some of the corners and things for our pattern okay so we got to have one of those we also have the anniversary pattern it comes with more options right comes with some additional options with her new anniversary pattern now on the back of any of my specialty rulers and also on my basic six by 24 inch rulers i like to use uh these strips and all these things that i'm showing you you will find in a link of our video so that you'll be able to look them up if you need them but these will adhere to the back of your ruler and which is so beneficial in preventing you from having slipping when you're trying to be accurate with your cutting without that accuracy you're going to have issues to where things are not going to line up correctly so i think you'll enjoy having these and i'll put them on all my rulers you'll really enjoy it see your ruler so i can show you up close which one that fits the 24 on the back you're going to show them the back of it here we go can you guys see the little ledge yeah and it grips really well and you can cut those strips in any length you need for any ruler and that's what we're going to be using for this thank you doll you also are going to want to treat your fabric i do because some of the pieces are going to be cut on the diagonal can you show this to for them brandy because these are going to be cut on the diagonal that will also mean they're on the bias and if you don't treat that fabric and starch is okay but treating it with this product calterial magic is the only way to go this stabilizes that fabric and does not allow it to stretch so brandy and i are crazy about terial magic and most everybody else that uses it loves it too so i think you'll enjoy it also let me give you a little sip of water you can also see that there's no fraying none whatsoever so it does kind of eliminate that on some of those fabrics that you get that fray quite a bit let's see if we've got one i hate to undo your pretty uh same see see all these little frays of the fabric that you get whenever you're whenever you're doing your work yeah let's see if we can get back here and see how your threads your edges of your fabric begin to fray off so if you treat your fabric with deterio magic before you do any of the cutting then you will not have any of that and that used to drive me crazy when i would quilt for people because i would spend hours clipping all those loose threads so it wouldn't show through on their quilting so you simply uh spray it and brandi and i like to recommend that you buy these misters and of course she said the other day oh you were spraying this stuff all over everywhere well yeah kind of sort of but you can see that it makes just a mist instead i think this ball's got a hole in it but it actually will make a mess instead of a squirt so you get better coverage on your fabric and it also saves on product as well so my fabric was treated with material magic and you can see how how nice and flat and straight it will make such a big difference in your piecing okay so what i'm going to be cutting on today has already been treated now once you treat the fabric you don't use satura magic anymore it's not used for pressing your seams or anything like that and we like to use best press so when you need to have a little bit of that moisture to maybe make a seam lay flat then we just give it a little spritz with this and i also keep mine in a mister like i said it's going to save product for you so this is even great you will love when you see the difference that it makes in the projects that you work on and by the way i just read an article about cereal magic on making t-shirt quilts if you spray that t-shirt before you cut it it stabilizes it and doesn't let it shift so give it a good spray with that i also use the arterial magic for embroidery so we'll talk about that in another video the other thing you might want to have for when you're pressing your seams and i like to keep a small iron by me at my work table that way i don't have to get up and down to walk to the ironing board heaven forbid i get more exercise or more steps in in a day than i need so we're just going to use a small iron my favorite one is the alyssa iron if you want to use steam you just flip the little in the back pour your water in your distilled water if you want to use it and then you have several temperature settings that you can use and also you have a spritz option as well and a steam burst so that's a handy little iron to take the classes with you or just keep close by the machine so you don't have to have a big old ironing board there i also have a hardwood clapper and what i'll you'll probably see me use it when we do our pressing demo and the hardwood clapper will trap the heat and the steam if you're using steam between the ironing surface and the clapper and you'll get a much better result with your pressing if you want to use pins when you sew i highly recommend you buy some of the magic pens i prefer the smaller silk pens and they really slide or glide through your fabric easily without causing shifting you can get them in various sizes but remember sometimes the larger the size of the pen that you get the larger the needle uh is and it's harder to push it through your fabric so i like to use the silk ones whenever i'm doing piecing you know i can iron those two and you can you can iron over these and they won't melt plus they're very easy to pick up you know they're rubber tipped and they do come in a little storage yeah they have a cute little case to keep all your stuff in perfect all right so we've covered those uh you're going to need a wonderful rotary cutter everybody has their favorites this is one of mine mainly because of how you can change the blade i was always getting the parts out of order so with this one all you do is you pull back and then this falls out you put a new blade on top put it back in and lock it so i love this rotor cutter and it fits my hand well and hey did you guys know what that these uh ridges that you see on the rotary cutter when you're using the cutter you actually should have your index finger there so the end of the cutter rests in the palm of your hand your index finger goes there and then you roll okay just throw that little tip in there that's a small tip we help new quilters every day learn how to do that and like i say you know there's there's a rotary cutter for everybody if you have problems with your hands there's some that are more ergonomic as well now the thread that i always use when i do my piecing is i use the rfl 50 weight thread [Music] i use it especially because it's a very fine thread doesn't bulk up my seams at all and i'm also able to use a smaller needle size when i do my piecing and so the needle size that i like to use is a size 70 needle i prefer micro text needles they have a long thin point and they pass through the fabric very easily and you can get the new chrome plated ones uh that increases the longevity of the needle okay so four piecing micro text size 70 with r fill 50 white thread now if you use a different brand of thread that needle size may change okay so this is the combination that i always use and that i recommend all right next thing get you a nice pair of scissors to go by you want one that will give you a good clean cut when you do have to cut away any snips or edges and so forth and after you've done that i think you're pretty well set up i have pressing mats by my machine and of course everybody is loving the really thick wool pressing mats and so that's what i always have by my machine with my alisso iron one thing i wanted to tell you too the alisso comes with this a little silicone pad that you can sit your iron on when you're not using it if you want to stand it up you can you just have to make sure that you turn the cord off to the side if you want to stand it up but if you want to just let it sit down then this is what the pad is for another thing too is for storing it when you're not using it and this is hard for me to do do the tips first do the tip first there you go i don't know i don't have very good hands anymore we're busy we don't ever put it away anyway okay then you can actually hang it on a little hook if you need to okay i think i've got you covered we're going to talk about your sewing machine if you're a quilter you just need a straight stitch machine i'm sewing on the beautiful bernina 770 quilters edition today and in the course of some of these videos we'll be bouncing around between different machines i love this machine because it has wonderful features for quilters we can personalize this machine to the technique that we're doing and we'll talk about those in the course of the sewing what i also have is bernina's 97d presser foot now the d means it works with those machines that have dual feed and i love having the dual feed for my piecing what dual feed will do for you is it will feed the top layer of your fabric at exactly the same speed as the feed dogs are moving the bottom so no more shifting of those pieces to where when you get to the end the top piece is shorter or is usually longer than the bottom so always if you have a machine a bernina machine that has dual feed on it make sure you always buy the d feet you will not regret it the dual feed on our machine just simply slips into the back of the foot it's very easy now this particular foot was designed by quilters for bernina so that it will fit the nine millimeter feed dogs that we have on the machine this is the guide that you slide up against the side of the foot that you will guide your fabric by i guess i need to find my screwdriver so that i can get that slid up it's still tight anyway this will slide back and forth up against the foot and when we get started i'll show you how to put it on i gotta find the little screwdriver i think i left it out front but then you'll butt your fabric up against it and uh this is a great guide to have even when you're not using this foot it will help you do like inch hems because it is adjustable as far as the distance away from the needle okay so i hope that helps you guys and we are going to get ourselves ready to show you how to use this wonderful ruler and do some rotary cutting okay let's talk just a little bit about the pattern before we go any further with the cutting so uh once again this is by karen montgomery and it's called the easy stripe table runner and this is her anniversary edition so when you look at the back of the pattern you're going to see that she's got some variables on what you can do uh with her pattern and this particular one is like what we're going to make today here it is in the poppies here we have the snowmen and then you can see this is one of her variations to where you have this beautiful piece in the center now you're going to have some left over triangles that you've cut so you could actually use this for a table topper if you wanted to or you could also use for a small placemat i didn't see any reason for that there's so many look how pretty that turned out in the center right there now this one over here is jamie's and i had her deliberately not sew hers together because i wanted you to see the different parts to hers so remove that and you'll see that she's taken six of the triangles stitched them together to form a circle then added a triangle here repeated it the process and when you put them all together this is what you get isn't that cool so you've got lots of variations in this pattern but to start out we're going to do the basic just to get you going on how to get started with it okay so this is a fun pattern great gifts for people start early now the fabric that i picked out was the chickadee i'm not sure it's probably got a little bit more to that name than that but i just thought this was such a pretty fabric and it would be something that you could use for the holidays but you can also use it all went along it just is so sweet so what you want to do when you get your fabric and of course this has been cut on it's a 45 inch wide piece normally but you can lay your ruler down and actually audition the fabric as to where you want the chickadees to lie or maybe not move it up too far to where you get a little piece of the chickadee that you cut off so you can audition your fabric that way now this ruler is eight and a half inches from the top to the bottom it also has a blunt tip and that's what you want because that's going to help you when you start seaming it together so like we said this is by omnigrid and you can follow the link that's going to be on the video to help you purchase this for your sew-along okay the fabrics all the fabrics are available online everything brandy's going to have it all set up for you guys okay now what i did just so i can make my first cut because we're going to need for this table runner we are going to need two strips that we are going to cut triangle units from also so let me move this so maybe we'll just throw that in the floor because we can okay so this is one long strip and we're going to add a triangle unit to each end so we've got to do some cutting here we've got to get some triangle units and then we have to get a diagonal edge onto each end of our strip okay so we're going to make two of these get get cut two strips and four of the triangle units for the basic table runner okay so i have pre-treated my fabric material magic and then that way that's going to stabilize this fabric not allow it to stretch as we're sewing across the bias and look no phrase off those edges so it's going to make your sewing so much easier and so much neater okay now this is a shorter strip she will give you the exact measurement to cut the strip i want to think it was let me look just to make this a a good sew-along let's look my my memory doesn't serve me well anymore so let's see what she says just to make it just to clarify it for you she's got great instructions and it says you're going to be cutting an eight and a half inch wide strip which we've already talked about that and the length of the fabric there you go across the width now if your border print runs down the length you can make it any length you want to and look look at these instructions brandi she's got beautiful pictures and i can follow a pattern and you can you might want to follow it better if it's right side up not upside down and see you've got some really good instructions and look right down here is what we're getting ready to do we're going to use our triangle ruler and we're going to start cutting all right let me get that out of my way so we're going to cut this excellent with my triangle ruler which is right here okay all right so you're going to lose a little bit of this edge okay but that's okay you're going to line the bottom of your ruler up with the bottom of your fabric and the top blunt tip is what you want on this ruler really if we had thought and got a rotating cutting mat this might be easier so i'm going to cut and there again i've got those grip strips on the bottom of my ruler so i don't have to worry about things shifting pick it i won't have to because i cut my strip exactly eight and a half inches and let me pull there we go there's one side now what you are going to have to do now these are going to be the two strips that we're going to use at the end but we have got to get the right angle the correct angle on the end of our strip so that when we are ready to sew it they will fit together so we're going to have to cut a couple more we're going to cut right through here okay and these are the ones you're not going to use for the table runner but you can save them to use maybe for a nice little table topper we did that let me show you what we got here so this is the side we're going to attach it to and we had to have this angle to make it work with our triangle now those that we are not going to use our chickadees would be up down yeah okay so we save these for another project and she's got many of them in that little pattern lots of good ideas for you in that pattern okay so that's how you get started sorry they just fell right off of me so you're going to have two strips and you're going to cut each of those strips exactly like this you'll have two usable triangles and two to save for another project all right we're going to get ready and we are gonna sew and make this table runner so we'll be right back okay so uh i think i'll go through a little bit of machine setup with you and uh we'll do some threading and and talk a little bit about the presser foot that i love to use but the first thing i want to tell you is look at this fabulous light that the bernina has well it is so fabulous that for the videos we're going to have to turn it off because it kind of creates a glare for brandy doesn't it yeah but you're gonna be using the slim light right yeah so there you go just know that you can adjust the brightness of the light but you can also turn it off so it works out great for the videos so i think you'll be able to see a little bit better now this is the presser foot that i was talking about that i love to use for my piecing i have found that when i use this presser foot the accuracy is much improved it is designed to fit the nine millimeter feed dogs of the machine now the original quarter inch presser foot presser feet rather number 37 and 57 they were not as wide as this foot so a part of the feed dogs was not making contact with the foot to feed your fabric straight and accurately they work great on the 5.5 millimeter machines but for our nine millimeter you're going to really enjoy having this foot it is designed to be used in uh on your machine with the dual feed engage now the dual feed extends down from the back of the machine and the end of it actually will go into this cut out opening of the presser foot that allows the dual feet to actually make contact with the top layer of your fabric so it moves at exactly the same time and with the motion of the feed dogs on the bottom so both layers of your fabric will be fed equally under the presser foot so when you forget to engage the dual feed you're going to get puckering in your fabric because without the dual feed in that slit that's a big open area and the fabric puckers up on you so if you're like me and you forget that sometimes then you wonder why on earth there's my machine pucker at my fabric root your hand back there give it a love pat make sure you've engaged your door feet we're going to slide him on and i'm going to go ahead and do that right now all right so i won't forget now what i love about this foot is this adjustable guide that you can put on the machine base you have two holes on the machine right here that you can attach different attachments that bernina has made for this machine this guide can be used for other things besides with this foot so the foot comes with a guide on most of the nine millimeter models and you can use it for additional things as well let's say you wanted to put a hem in something you can move that guide away from the needle and actually butt the bottom edge of your fabric against it and use it as another means of getting a nice straight uh stitch now the thing you have to realize about the bernina attachments is they make things look more professional because they give you the accuracy that you need so i'm going to go ahead whoops hang on there little screw i'm going to put the screw in the hole closest to the presser foot and i am not going to tighten it down all the way at this point i am going to tighten it down enough and then i'm going to lower the presser foot and slide the guy oh another thing brandi i got to take it off i will show them something else too okay i don't want them to be afraid about their feed dogs rubbing on this because bernina has notched out an area can you see it if i put it on my hand and that notched out area will prevent the feed dogs from making contact with the metal of this guide aren't they amazing they think of everything because we don't want to damage those feed dogs and dull the teeth so i've got the foot down partially i'm going to put the foot up against it and then i want to raise and lower that foot to make sure that it's going to move easily on that all righty well i think we have a go you don't want to press it up there really tight you just want it to be pressed enough to where you can tell uh you don't want the foot to move in other words you don't want to push it up against that foot so hard that you see the foot kind of tilt on you and then tighten them down now what i'm doing um quilting if i have to ever sew on the diagonal rather than just a straight line which most of our patterns are done for but let's say i'm making a half square triangle you don't necessarily have to take this off you can just unscrew it and turn it out of your way you know do those pieces that you need to do some other type of stitching other than a straight line a quarter inch okay let me double check that yep he's moving good we are ready to make it now we're going to do our threading right we've still got to get it gonna do some threading put this pretty piece of fabric under there so everybody can see it now i have got uh the orophil 50 weight and how do you know what it is if you look on the bottom of the spool the 50 white always has the orange spool and it says orifil mako and then 50 forward slash to ply and look at how fine of a thread that is and it may be fine but it's extremely strong it's made of extra long staple cotton so you've got a lot of strength in that thread even though it's fine we're going to go ahead and thread it up now when i'm using the large spools like this on my machine i use the smaller spool cap and that holds it better than the big one which lets the spool rock up and down and the other thing about you that's full rocking up and down is it can affect your stitch quality you'll you'll feel like the stitches are maybe pulling the fabric every now and then and you want this to be able to slide freely off the end of that spool so i put the tiny one on i don't know if you saw that and i just dropped it of course i did there it is i'll show you guys some patterns at least it didn't work [Music] so we're gonna put the teeth in to the spool not just but the blunt end up can you see that over my arm and then when i've done that look how secure that spool is and when thread the spools are laying horizontally like this which they always should be for the cross wrap threads it just falls off the end then we go in the guide in the back always make sure that when you are threading your machine your presser foot is in the up position so the tensions are open in the top we're going to floss him in always want to thread your machine with the presser foot completely up and then of course the 7 series has a wonderful needle threader i always tell everybody try not to make it too complicated you're going to press the needle threader down halfway and you'll see this post you go under it from the right side of the post i'm trying to say out of brandy's way here and then across in front can they see that then i'm going to push push you'll feel the first push you'll feel it bump up against the back of the needle and a lot of people stop at that point give it an extra push because there's a little wire that needs to go through the eye of the needle from the back and then you're going to glide it into the threader and when you release and pull up don't have a death grip on that thread or else it can't pull it out of your hand then you get a big loop of thread in the back alrighty perfect we are almost ready to sew and again i always put make sure that my needle thread is under my presser foot not on top okay so i have already it's kind of like on the cooking shows you know they always have something already baked i've already and attached on this side the process is the same for each end of your strip we're going to match up our bottom and we're going to match up that blunt tip at the top and if you want to pin it by all means put your little pin in there there's nothing wrong with that and then we're going to notice how i'm trying my best to keep my diagonal lines even and this will just make a lot of people feel more secure to have those pins in there especially if you're a beginner alrighty of course i'm going to remove my pen here and oh you know what another thing if you sew on one of these machines another thing that i always do i don't want it to secure at the beginning and at the end when i'm piecing so i'm going to show you very quickly on the screen how you can go into your settings let me get out so you can see the little gears on the front on all the bernina's represent the machine settings for the machine we are going to go into settings and there's a picture of a straight stitch and a zigzag and this is where you can change sewing settings so we're going to go in there and where you see the needle with a little knot under it if you see the green line like green for go that means that your securing stitches are engaged and turned on i turn them off okay then that way it doesn't sit and sew in place and it allows you to start sewing exactly on the edge of the fabric with having without having to worry about fraying that end off and i also forgot to mention too brandi i put a straight stitch throat plate cover on there and uh that does not have the large oval opening and with that straight stitch throat plate cover it won't allow the edge of your fabric to fall down into the throat plate of the machine all right so since we're talking about that why don't i just show it to them so they can see we'll move this aside let me take my presser foot off so they can see so the straight stitch thrip flip cover has a very tiny hole in it that allows the only the needle on a straight stitch to pass through now your regular nine millimeter throat plate cover has this wide oval opening so you can see that that definitely gives enough room for the edge of your fabric to be pushed down in that hole by your needle so when you use a straight stitch throat plate cover you don't ever have to worry about that happening i remember years ago when we didn't have this type of throat plate cover we all would sew on a scrap a piece of fabric first before we approach the part that we were actually working on and that way it wouldn't knock it down in the hole so everybody that does any kind of piecing is going to want to have that on their machine it is worth the investment to have it and a lot of the quilters edition machines that bernina makes come with that all right make sure i engage my dual feet so we won't get any puckery seams and let me put this pin back and kind of make sure so i've got everything lined up we want that top edge to be even with the top of our fabric and which stitch are we using we are using stitch number one and i went to my quilt program where it has stitch 13 26 which is preset at a shorter stitch length for piecing now you can go into your quilt program and you can see a multitude of stitches that will work for any quilting you're doing you've got your applique stitches these are crazy quilt stitches so if you wanted to use those over a seam and so you've got tons of different stitches that pertain to quilting in the quilt program of stitches so we just chose stitch number 1326 because it's preset at the correct stitch length for piecing your quilt together and like i said earlier that will prevent the ends of your seams from pulling open all right 2.0 stitch and that's yeah that's preset for that when you go in the quilt program otherwise if you just use your basic sewing program uh this is your i think they call it well i don't know what they call it but anyway it's just your everyday sewing stitches uh this is not preset at that length now see you can see it's yellow where i showed how to alter it but if i hit clear its preset is 2.50 which is two and a half and that's more for like garment construction so we went into the quilt program but if you wanted to alter that you could but we just went into the quilt program and we selected stitch 1326 and there we go it's preset for piecing all right now i'm firm on holding your two threads in your hand when you start to sew just for two or three stitches that previous when you have a long thread tail like i do here and you let the needle go down without holding it it can take too much excess thread tail down with it and it will lock your gears because it wraps around the hook now bernina has a sensor on there so that if that happens it stops you from continuing to sew and a lot of people get aggravated by that sensor but it's just there to help you but if you just take a couple of stitches while holding your thread you won't have a bird's nest on the bottom and you can see how easy this guide makes it for lining my pieces up and knowing that as long as i keep that edge up against the guide i'm not i'm going to have a perfect quarter inch the one thing i would caution you about is a lot of people will push too hard and if you push too hard or you're trying to really make sure you're up against the edge and you push too hard can you see that little buckle in the fabric if you push too hard and you get that buckle that's going to throw off your quarter of an inch most of your guiding whenever you're sewing should be from in front of your presser foot you should not have the weight of your hand to the left you don't have to push and it should feed straight so i've just got a light touch in front of the presser foot and i'm just going to guide that edge and there again that terial magic is going to prevent this from rippling on us when we get through you're going to see a beautiful seam and i slowed my machine down i could sew faster than that but for the sake of the camera and everything i've just slowed it down a little bit and i have a little purple thing that's what they call this i prefer a stiletto but these work great also and it can help you because sometimes your fingers get too large to help do the guiding and you can just put your purple thing right there and continue to guide that right on into the edge all right and i'm going to use my thread cutter and it will cut my thread and raise my presser foot for me and we have our end sewed on now you're going to do that for both ends of your table runner as you can see i've already got this one sewn together now what i did on mine when it came to pressing the seam allowances on one of the strips that i had joined the two triangles on i press my seam allowances toward the triangle now on this strip that i'm working on now i'm going to press away from the triangle and then that way when we sew this together they won't be on top of each other so i've got my little tools here i've got my little alyssa iron so you can see it's handy to have her right by your machine i first always want to set my seam and i do so by just putting the iron on it and pressing it flat this will help give you a much smoother um seam and now we're going to press the seam toward our long piece away from the triangle does that make any sense now i'm going to give it just a little spritz with best press to have a little moisture there and i've got my handy clapper close by and i am just going to press it over and clap it and like i say that is just going to provide a lock to keep the heat and the moisture in in that unbelievable i always use this on a garment construction and never thought about using it in quilting you know but it works beautifully now i'm going to double check from the right side to make sure that i didn't accidentally press a little bit of a fold in there and look how nice and flat that isn't that beautiful all right and see you always want to check and make sure that you haven't inadvertently pressed a little bit of a fold in there because that's going to throw off your matching so i'm just going to quickly go over that use my little clapper and you don't have to push down on the clap or you can just lay it on there that it's not the pressure that helps with your beautiful seam it's just the solid wood and it will keep that heat in there how about that okay all right now we are going to get ready and come back and we are going to get this ready to sew the two pieces together and do some pinning okay we'll be back in just a bit we are just moving along can you believe how easy this is has been to make so i've got my two panels ready my two strips with their triangle uh ends on so we're ready to pin it together after we get this pin together we're just going to stitch the two panels together all the way to the bottom and your table burner top is finished and we'll be ready to think about quilting it so we're going to flip this right sides together and uh what i want you to pay attention to you know we talked about how i press these seams so on one of the strips the seam allowances were pressed toward the triangle on the other it's pressed away from the triangle toward the long strip that way when we put these together we can butt those seams up against each other like so and we don't have all that bulk now i generally pin before and after that intersection rather than trying to pin right through all those layers so i just pin before and after let me get that lined up just a little bit better right there and let's get that in pinned down because we don't want any shifting or anything taking place we want everything to just be perfect now you use as many pens as you need to as you're comfortable with don't worry about it so it's not going to hurt at all to put your pins in there if you're more comfortable and i'm not normally a big pinner but there are times when it's important now when i get this side butted and joined right here where seams are i'm going to double check between these seams and i can actually just take my fingers and wiggle them back and forth and you can feel those seams touch each other and then i'll just press before and after and there again i love these pins because the needle on it is very fine makes it very easy to pin through and then we'll put a little pin down here this is just one thing to worry less thing to worry about if you've got everything pinned in place and then i kind of take it like this guys line up those and give a little tug on it and find the center and get hold that fabric right there and then line those up right there so i'm just squooshing it up and now we know that we've got them ready and there again if you want to use more pins um down along this long side you know go ahead don't don't worry about it at all use as many as it makes you feel comfortable and then the more you get comfortable with your patterns and stuff you will probably use less pants and i don't know if i mentioned it but we are using quarter-inch seam allowances to talk about isn't it all righty so now we're going to sew this long panel together and then after we've done that we will press our seam allowances open get my chair up here i've got pins going in all directions i always have to take that one out and just take your time when you're doing this find your thread again come here sometimes when you use your thread cutter it's going to pull that needle thread down to the bottom because that's where your thread cutter is so just locate it and having that dual feed will help you also in being sure that you can sew and your pieces match up better the big thing i see people forget about is making sure that the two edges are lined up with each other they let that bottom layer slip under so you want to kind of try to keep keep contact with that and pay attention that you keep that guided perfectly now i'm going to take this pin out this pin out and i can actually feel with my fingers that they're when they're lined up so i'm going to pull that down i hope you all can see and just butt that up right there and then i'm going to hold it let me speed this up just a little bit but we'll be here all day see how i'm pulling this fabric back so i can locate that edge that's hiding underneath and then we're just going to continue on down that seam and then again i don't know if i mentioned too you don't have to make yours the length that she recommends i mean you know you could make it longer if you need a longer table runner for your table so you know oh very easy to adjust and i also wanted to mention so don't let me forget brandi those leftover pieces if you wanted to make like that little circular tablecloth that i was talking about or you know a little table topper i wanted to talk to them just quickly about laying that out and putting it together there again i see i'm sliding that over so i can locate that bottom edge of my fabric to make sure i keep those edges even notice how i'm keeping my hand in front of the presser foot the weight of your hand can pull your fabric away from the needle and affect your seam allowance so try to always be guiding from the front and keep your eye right here on your guide that you're keeping the edge on i hate to kind of make them watch all of this but uh don't they always want to sit um right in front of the needle a lot of people try to get to the side yeah definitely because you'll get a backache and you always want your foot control right in front of the leg of the foot that you're using you don't want your foot control way out here you want it to be right in front and um you want to be centered directly in front of the sewing needle not to where you have to do any tilting to see it we're going to let kathy's feet on that i'm going to show you the patterns one more time behind us so we're currently working on this pattern this watermelon pattern which is also done in the snowmen and the poppy and she's going to show you how to do some of these center pieces here and then this is another one of the options so just again showing you the pattern let's go back because she's almost done yeah we are getting there let's go check my edges again and i think we left that iron on didn't we the little iron okay good and we are at the end yes all righty how does that look and now we are going to open it up and check ourselves out and see how we did on our points let's try this one too make sure he looks pretty good look at that see doesn't that look good it's not the end of the world if they don't match don't critique yourself too much and we're going to press this seam allowance open so let me get my little wool pressing mats so we're going to turn this over i love this roller this allows you to lay your seams on top of it and we are going to press these seam allowances open now there again you might want to miss those with water or we can use a little best press on there that i've got over here of course in the wrong place but that's okay we just did a little mist with the best press and you could also use your clapper to really get these nice and flat on the bottom of this um wool opener actually is a clapper but when you're using the top part that's right good point i tell you too uh treating your fabric with bacterial magic can really help in um you know let's see how this is popping up on me right here that's what drives me crazy because then when you come around there it's very possible that that little scene you'll get into trouble with it so let's move that bad boy over let's give him another little bounce of heat and let's give him a clap why don't we let's see if we can let's treat him to all the specials that's right now look at him how wonderful is that and i'm going to go all the way down this piece get him all pressed up nice and neat and then we are going to pick out our backing fabric and we are going to spray baste and then pin base those layers together and we want to show you how to do that also so you won't be terrified when you get ready to start and you want to use the pins the pins are important because that spray base is a temporary adhesive so uh it's going to loosen up some over time now if you spray a lot on it it's going to last longer but if you're going to get to the project you know quickly then save your product and just do a few pins in there to hold it also all right so we'll get this finished up and then we're going to show you how to do all that as well so brandi and i have been busy while you guys have been resting we've been busy and so we've got a portion of our uh runner already attached so i'm going to talk to you just a little bit i took two widths of fabric and i seamed them together and i don't know if you notice on any all of this there were no salvages so the first thing i always do is get rid of those salvages on my fabric so i've seamed my fabric together and i always like to have an inch and a half or two inches extending around all the sides of my project that i'm working on then i pressed it really really good and the first thing i did was i sprayed 505 which we use that a lot in an embroidery and like i said it's a temporary spray adhesive for fabric and so i sprayed the wrong side of my backing fabric and then i smooth my batting down now when you do this you actually want to start in the middle and smooth to the outside one thing you can do and we didn't have time to do that today but if you wanted to use masking tape and tape this fabric down so that it won't bunch up on you when you can't see it on the underneath side you can do that and that'll keep it nice and flat for you if you've got a cutting table or a dining room table painters tape anything like that to hold those edges stamped and what kind of batting did you choose for this particular batting that i've got on here is a cotton batting quilter's dream is one of my favorite battings and this is their cotton batting it's very soft they have i think four weights yeah four weights of it and i know you're probably used to people talking about the loft of a batting but that only holds true when you're talking about a polyester batting or in this case this is a wool so you can see that the batting actually is very lofty and airy when you're talking about your batting in cotton it's actually more of a weight so when they put more cotton fiber per square inch the weights get heavier and denser this particular one is called their select weight and it's excellent for when you're doing machine quilting on your home sewing machine they have a weight that's even lighter than that than that that's called request it's perfect for hand quilters then you get up into a deluxe weight and a supreme weight and they're much heavier and when i say heavy i'm talking that when you're laying under that quilt it is heavy and dense and warm because there's a lot more cotton per square inch being applied so there again we sprayed with 505 and got our batting smooth down onto our fabric tape it down if you want to to keep your batting batting from or your fabric from bunching up under your batting and then once we did that we sprayed in sections so start in the center again spray your batting or you can spray the wrong side of your table runner and start smoothing and we smooth to the outside edge and then you can see that we have got some nickel plated safety pins now the nickel plated is what you want to use simply because they won't rust so if you don't get to this for three or four or five years to finish it up they're not going to leave a rusty spot on your table runner also be sure that you uh buy the one inch pens i've had a lot of people that come to my quilting classes and they'll have the really big safety pins and you have to realize that when they're large like that the needle itself on the pin is too large to push through your material and when you are able to do that it will leave a big hole so always get the smaller size so you'll be uh dealing with less and it's easier to quilt around those in those places that you need to and you can see i've just sporadically placed them like so and i think when we do our quilting brandy i think i'm going to follow this line in the fabric and run just some straight stitch quilting and i may come in and follow one of these lines close to the center and then i'll come out on the outside and go around it and then we'll do the edge okay do you think that sounds like a good plan sounds like a good idea all right so brandi we're going to get this ready for them so like i said we've already smoothed our backing fabric with the 505 and we've got a good portion of this done get that lid off and i'm just going to hold my fabric up and give it a little spray and then i take my hand i don't know if you can see but i'm going to take my hand and smooth right down the center and then we'll go outward at a downward motion on both sides okay look at that isn't that nice oh we got such great tools and then i'll just oh here's one see one of these big guys now look how much smaller the actual pin is it's going to go through your fabric than that so we're going to pin it yes the diameter of the actual pen so when you're trying to push that through your table runner your batting and your backing is hard for you to get through and then you'll actually end up leaving a really big hole in your fabric let me have that quick clip can you hand them to me now we can't get these any longer but i tell you what you can use what this guy does is it saves your finger from getting stabbed because you know when you're trying to put in a a safety pin you you know you push it down into your fabric and then when you come up you're trying to do this to get that tip out and so that's where this guy comes into play and then you you have little slots in the end here there you go now you can't get that guy anymore you can't get him anymore but before he had him i used a teaspoon oh you know so maybe they'll start making it again and uh if so we'll we'll get it and get it on the website and get you guys a tablespoon and he's called a quick clip i hate they quit making those they're so handy now you can also buy curved safety pins so either one whether they're the straight or the curve either one of them will work well for you okay so brandi and i got this finished up and we're going to start doing some quilting and look who we have this is susan she's one of our friends that shop here and how long have you been shopping at the store uh since gina opened up in the barn in the barn back in the 80s i was i was in my mid mid young thirties yeah so if you don't know gina's been in business for 42 years and she's been a bernina dealer for 38 so we've been around a long time so we've raised kids together and everything but she's taken a beginning quilting class so i'm going to let her show you uh what she's worked on and she's coming in today for me to help her get her going a little bit further so i just sort of come on in and watch a video with us so she's brought her quilt and it's beautiful fall colors yeah we started this in the fall so this was yeah kovy kind of got in the way didn't it but isn't that pretty beautiful so we are going she's got hers pin basted so we are going to work on quilting so she came in at just the perfect time all righty so um i tell you what i've done i i have uh don't do what i did i sit down that chair the other day and i feel forward out of it so um i am going to put on my bernina walking foot for this now i know we have dual feed in the machine but i get a lot better results with my walking foot depending on the way the batting that i'm using and so i thought i would just talk to you a little bit about the walking foot and like you understand when you buy one what all these attachments are that come with it so let's just talk about the soleplates the first uh walking foot that we ever had that bernina made it only came with this one sole plate and it was attached to the foot and could not be removed and so you can see here's where the needle travels and it has a bar between the two toes and you did have a center mark line on it to help you and you have to realize the walking foot really wasn't designed for quilters we just jumped on it and fell in love with it so so this was our first one that we had and then we begged to have one that did not have this barb that uh ran between uh the the shoot i can't even talk between the two sides and in front of the needle and we wanted to have more visibility so the next one that they came out with is the one that that bar is removed so that you can kind of see where you're going okay well we weren't satisfied and we wanted something for stitching in the ditch so they added a guide for us that we can actually put that guide in the ditch of our seam and it will keep us exactly in place when we're doing our quilting okay and that cool to have that now how you remove and attach the different ones there's a screw on the side of the white box of the foot and you just unscrew it to the left and as you do that you're going to see the black bars widen apart from each other see how this and there we go it came off very easily didn't it and so that's how you remove it and then to put the next one on you simply slip it up and line up there's some little posts on these black pieces i don't know if you can see right there you see that so you can see those little guys and they fit in the holes on the foot so you get one side lined up and you might want to hang on to your foot this time so it won't fly off into the wild open spaces and then we just start screwing that screw back in and that arm will start going in and after a little while you could just hear it kind of click into place and then finish tightening it down you know which one are you using this one i think since we're going to travel and follow these lines i think i'll use the one that has the um the bar cut out from between the toes now um also if you're doing channel quilting you have some guides that come with the foot you have one that goes on the right side when you're stitching in that way and then you have another one that goes on the left side for those times when you're coming back and what holds it in place is this guy and he fits on the back of the foot do you have one of these susan you know the bar looks familiar but i don't think i have to well you know they come with the machine okay yes i have the bar but not you may have you may want to invest in one of these okay and so then this slides through and you position it this guide the distance you want your channel quilting to be you position it away from the needle so if i wanted it one inch i would position it over then tighten this down and after you've stitched that first row of stitching and if that was our first row of stitching we could let that guide right along that last row of stitching now what this foot's going to do for us because of the bulk of having three layers here it is going to accurately feed those layers through so you don't get any pleats on the back of your quilt or on the top sometimes that can happen so trying to do this with a regular presser foot is not going to work for you especially on a big quilt too you're going to have lots of issues with the big quilt but let me lose it get all these little pieces out of the way now putting this bad boy on can be a little difficult for some people we want to make sure that we get this hook over the needle bar right here can you see that brandy is it okay and you're going to have to tilt the foot in to scoop him up on that in the back and then you're going to slip this up and on so it can be a little bit of a booger but maybe let me leave my head over so i can see we got it and then latch him down now if you're sewing on the bernina machines that have you tell it what presser foot you have on the machine it will not allow you to use the automatic needle threader like the 8 series because the automatic needle threader will hit the foot and it might damage your needle threader i have gotten by with using this but i generally just try to have my needle threaded before i put the foot on okay now we are going to start doing our quilting and i think where i'll start is kind of inconspicuously somewhere oh and another thing too i think i'll go back into settings on my machine and i'm going to tell i'm going to turn on my securing stitch so we've got that done and then i'm going to go in here and i'm going to add to my thread cutter that it secures my stitch before i or before it cuts the thread so that way at the beginning is going to lock them and at the end it's going to lock them and i never start i try to start in an inconspicuous place so let's see which line of this blue am i going to try to stitch on man it's not going to be a straight line but we're just going to make it work i'm gonna go ahead and take this pin out in preparation and once again you know me i gotta hold those threads when i start so i won't get any of those birds nest underneath there see how it's securing now where's your light we turned the light off because it was not doing well with the video and i have changed my needle to a size 80 microtex needle and i've got it slowed down a little bit two seasons so i won't go so fast that it makes a lot of noise but normally i floor it when i i'm crazy sometimes with it so you ball means can sew a little bit faster and i'll just get this pin out of my way before i stitch over it and what i my intentions are is to quilt around this center just following these little lines of the fabric and this is just straight line quilting oh and listen if you guys don't have a machine that has an auto needle threader on it then what you might want to do maybe i'll show that i'll show that in a little bit i i don't like to hit reverse and back up on on my quilting oh and you know what else i should have said in my settings let's just go and fix that okay we are going to set it to do a hover so whenever my machine puts my needle down i wanted to raise my presser foot so i don't have to do it lift my dear lift okay may not do it the first time after i've said it all right and there again i wouldn't worry myself too much with being messy put my needle down so i can pivot and it lifted my foot for me so you are not stitching on a scene no you are just doing some stretching i'm just following on this i'm following that yeah so we're trying to make this very simple you know for anybody so they can they can quilt this is going to be a good beginner project for most people okie dokie lift it up again see that's just going to be enough to hold it and it's a cute table right now i love the fabric i do too so that came as a panel it is a border fabric and you can get two table runners out of but was it a yard and a quarter i think all right but you can see how beautifully that's feeding that through look at this line of stitching and that's what this walking foot will do for you it's going to make sure that it doesn't ease in any fullness along your stitching it was originally designed for home deck no it did not and so uh there was actually in the factories there were actually machines did nothing else they were set up just to be an even feed foot and that way they could sew 30 40 50 yards of fabric together and not worry when they got to the end that one layer was going to be you know short or shorter than the other generally without a foot like this the feed dogs will feed the bottom layer of your fabric a little bit faster than the top layer but with this foot it has feed dogs in the top and so they're going to move the top at the same time now i love this for my quilting because these feed dogs go in front of the needle as it pulls it through which for all this bulkiness that's excellent the dual feed is great for two a couple of layers and small quilted projects but that dual feed is pulling from behind the needle so i really like to use my walking foot whenever i'm doing machine quilting we've also got this machine on a very wiggly table you guys just so you know she wants to go faster but this table um we don't have the insert in so yeah just ignore a little bit of that wobble yeah when it's sitting on top of the machine or on top of the table it's not the best setup all right for today it does work maybe next time we'll put the machine down and needle down and it lifts isn't that nice to not have to stick your hand down there and you did not change the length of your stitch about a three or a little bit longer would be good okay i don't know what i've got it set at but you have to kind of judge that stitch length according to the weight of batting so the heavier the project you're working on whether you're quilting or not the heavier project that you're working on the longer the stitch length should be for it to feed through i'm trying to find my line here i think you'll make it i love though the there we go so i'm pivoting right on that little seam there so you can use your fabric a lot of times to decide how to quilt of course this is a table runner so we really don't need a lot more than that so let me make sure i'm doing good this is so wiggly anyway that yeah they're just adding a little bit of texture now if you wanted to mark a line susan to follow if your fabric wasn't one that would give you an option like this you could definitely do that now i have yeah you could just i use easy international water soluble markers as well i don't use anything on the right side of a quilt that i'm not sure will will wash out or you know you you've heard about some of the pens that you can iron them off but then they come back in cold weather so i don't mind doing that in construction but certainly not on the right side of my project all right now if you all remember i've set the machine up to where when i cut my threads it's going to lock stitches blocks and now it's cut okay now it's it's totally up to you as to you know how you want to move to the next section but i'm just going to slide it over hold that needle thread and we're going to do that second row and i won't make you watch all this so we're going to finish up our quilting and then when you come back we're going to square it up and do some binding which i think susan's excited all right so um i've already gone ahead and trimmed some of this excess off but i don't know if you can see this is just the simple quilting that we did so when you're a beginner you don't necessarily have to start out with a lot of uh heavy quilting so we've just got three lines of quilting and then i did go around and stitch about a quarter of an inch away from the outer edge in preparation for binding and i just thought i'd talk to you a little bit about doing your rotary cutting and so we're going to line the ruler up and our edges are pretty nice and even so um you know we don't have to really trouble ourselves with anything but when you're using a rotary cutter and i think i may have mentioned before these perforations that are in there for you to put your index finger on and you want to start cutting away from like here i've already cut so you want to start your cutting back away from that i move my hips out of my way so that my arm is straight from my hand up to my shoulder so you don't want to be like this because your shoulder jumps up in the air when you're like that so move your body out of the way put your index finger on the perforation and slant it upwards so you can straighten out your wrist so you don't want this going on just up like that you got a nice straight arm up to your shoulder and then i'm going to walk my hand up my ruler and if you've put those grips on the bottom that helps you immensely and we're going to get this trimmed and then we're going to talk about the binding because one of the most important parts of your binding is the beginning and end where you join those pieces together and i'm going to trim this after i get my foot off of it because i was standing on it and i may trim off this little bit of excess here i'm going to use the point here and this point as my guide that looks a little wavy to me and the arm goes up and i hope that'll help you a little bit the thing is i think a lot of people push too hard on the rotary cutter and if you've got a really nice sharp blade and you hold it up at an angle because this is in the palm of your hand the weight of your hand should be enough pressure on it to do a cut and always close it close your blade so we've got that trim look how much better it already looks just getting that trimmed off isn't that beautiful that's going to be such a pretty one isn't it here in the back and you can see more of her quilting it's a little easier to see the lines she did and again she just followed the fabric um okay now i've already got my binding made but never fear i'm not going to leave you all out so this is i want to thank four weeks of fabric that i have joined together and you want to join this on the diagonal can you see my stitching line here see we've joined it on the diagonal and we want to do that because your eye is not drawn to an angle of stitching like it is a straight line of stitching now how we're going to do that let me just tell you this too after i've got them all joined together then you press them wrong sides together now i cut my strip two and a quarter inches wide times the width of the fabric and i didn't worry about removing the salvages because they're going to be cut off when we seam them together and that was how i got them prepared so when you're ready to us adjust attach your pieces together oh goodness i'm behind we're actually in the store today and so we have a lot of interruptions and things that take place so we're in a working store environment so we get sidetracked a lot when we're doing these now when you want to sew on the diagonal this is just my tip when you put your pieces right sides together i always let a little bit of the fabric extend beyond the edges and we're going to sew from corner to corner and what you always want to remember and i hope there's a way that i can get this across is you don't want to start sewing from the outside edge of this piece toward the inner point of the binding should always start inside and sew to the outside of that intersection and out and if you are in doubt just put your hand on it and flip it over to make sure you're thinking correctly because when you sew it this way something is just not happy as you can see yes yes all right let me see now what we've got changed and let me clear it out and get us back to normal get that stitch length down a little bit okay and so i'm going to sew on the die you know now if you're more comfortable you can mark yourself a line if it'll make you feel better put that door feed down or what am i going to get brandi pucker chains okay i need to turn that off too and then we're going to sew at an angle and we will be good to go all right now see how i've got this stitched and then when i open it up look what i've got and because i overlapped those edges it makes it possible for you to not have anything hanging over there you know if you're trying to put the ends together like this you know and then sew over it you'll never make it so always overlap it don't try to match up that square just overlap it just a little bit and then you'll be sewing from that inner corner to that inner corner and then at that point we would trim off this seam allowance trim it down to about a quarter of an inch and then you'll press all your seams open like so okay always so open on a binding i do it cuts in on the bulk on all the binding so let's look at this that i've already made and put together i can't remember whose video i was watching and when they made all their binding they would buy fabric just to use for binding and they rolled it on paper towel rolls you know and so you know i didn't do it but you you probably want to cut off all your little dog tails that are sticking out but you can do that at any time okay so we're ready to attach our binding now the way i'm going to show you today there's lots of different ways to do it you can do any way you want to but this is what we're going to teach you today we'll be doing other ways but i try not to start sewing exactly in the center of the length of the piece i'm working on i want to throw the eye off just a little bit so and if you also wanted you could put you a little pen and say okay i want my binding to start and stop right there if you wanted to that make you feel better and be sure and leave yourself a nice long piece of fabric okay any questions about that because the measurement you use for this binding is just with the fabric well the measurement on cutting the width of it i'll adjust it if my batting is thicker i might add you know a little bit more rather than two and a quarter i might go up two and three eighths uh actually i wish i had cut this two and an eighth inches wide before i folded it but i just went with two and a quarter for the sake of getting it done but i think two and an eighth would have been a better fit when i fold it around okay so we're going to leave lots of fabric here and i'm going to start and i've got the cut edges of the binding on the cut edge of the placemat and this this is where i want to start i'm going to begin my stitching below that about six inches this is where i want it to meet together so we want to have a lot of space between our starts and stops so that we can manipulate our fabric try not to pull and another thing about binding uh too you can cut it on the grain if you don't have any curved edges uh you can also cut it on the bias it's a personal preference just whatever you want to do always the it what you know they always said always cut it on the bias it will wear better and uh but i have cut on the grain as well and these uh table mats really don't have any severe corners to deal with so we'll just do kind of a little baby miter down and you're still doing a quarter inch seam definitely okay so when i get down to here i am going to stop sewing approximately a quarter of an inch away from this edge and how do i know when i get there i can use the notches on the foot the one in front of the needle is exactly a quarter of an inch away from the needle so we're going to use that you could probably eyeball and hit that too and yes i better slow down no okay so now we're here at the corner and we can if you want to you can take it out but what i like to do let me put that needle back down in there and this is just me you guys don't have to do that but what i like to do is i like to turn and i kind of stitch that at an angle and it almost shakes my miter for me that make any sense and then we're going to flip this up like so my stitching line is my guide and then fold this down and we'll continue on down air placement and that's what i'm going to do on every single one of those points and i'm going to stitch all the way around and when we get to the end i'm going to show you how to join the two ends together to where you don't even notice them look my needle came through didn't i get a hold of my thread i think i had the bobbin thread in my hand not the needle thread let me get that back in there by cindy so what do you think brandy i think it was pretty good it looks really great i love the color dude that is a pretty color for the binding isn't it so quickly okay hey let's check out these corners guys so um now i stitch my binding down on the right side and turn it under to the back but you could do this same process a lot of people like to stitch theirs on the back and bring it to the front so it's totally up to you which way that this is going to work either way now and here's where we did that little miter so now look how pretty that's going to look when we get ready to fold it to the back see you got your cute little miter perfect we think and even up here on this big old point you know we're gonna have pretty little miter up there when we get them all folded under isn't that cool all right and two guys if you need more help on this you can come into the shop now this is the big dilemma is where your binding starts and stops how do you join it well the first thing you want to do is even and i think i had a pen right here if this is where you want uh them to join make sure you leave yourself a lot of space in between where you started your stitching and where you ended actually i could have left a couple of more inches and it would made it easier for us when we have to bend the quilt together so the more space you leave the easier it gets but not more than 12 inches so i'm going to take this strip and what i'm going to do we always get scared when we start cutting we are going to cut this off where we want the binding to kind of end okay now this piece will end up going over it just like this let me make sure i smooth that down nice and smooth so how much do you know i mean how do you know how much to cut off of this piece to make them join together so what i've done is i have snipped off a piece of my binding just like this i am going to position it on top and i'm going to open this up this is the width that we cut our binding that two and a quarter inches and i am going to lay this to where the edge of this piece is on top of the end of the binding that's underneath does that make sense you think that explanation will do it and this is where we're going to cut this is the top piece of binding that's overlapping and we're going to cut on this side you'll only do this once if you cut it on that side because it'll be too short and listen every time i do this beginning and ending i have to look it up and watch it again because you're not this is not something you're doing every single day so in between quilts you may have to refresh your memory so i'm going to lay this this is just my measuring tool we'll throw it away when we get through with it and then i just slip my scissors under there and cut or if you wanted to you could mark you alone okay i'm just going to try to do well maybe i won't do it that way i want to be accurate for you guys so maybe i'll flip that over and kind of do me a finger crease right there and then i have like a little place i can cut does that make sense what i just said can they see it from that angle okay all right so we're going to do this and i'm just going to cut on that little crease fold that i made all right so we got our two pieces cool now open this up this is the one that's on the bottom open it up and fold it because we're going to stitch on the diagonal fold the diagonal edge and see i'm taking this corner tip that's toward the inside of my piece and i'm folding it here see if i'd left a little bit more room this would be easier for me to do and finger crease it and we're going to stitch on that line in a minute that we created alrighty and before you let go of what you've put in there unfold this piece let me pull this up see why we need a lot of room and place it right there on this edge you got it so this is folded on the diagonal and then we're going to do this and i hope i'm telling you correctly because like i said then pick it up and we are going to stitch on that diagonal line that we folded in and then when you open it up hopefully that's what we're going to get okay and you can always check it if you want to check before you sew to make sure you put it together right which i highly recommend just put you some pins on that fold line and we'll see whether i've got it laying on there wrong or not okay and then that way you can actually see what you're going to have see right there all right so we did it right so it's always a good idea to check yourself and now i'm going to take it over to the ironing board and we're going to stitch this the ironing board over to the sewing machine we're almost done with the project guys and we're going to stitch this strip together and when we come back i'll show you how to stitch it down all the way around guys we have got our binding partially stitched down so i've left some so you can see you know how i do it this is the back of it and we're just using a straight stitch now there's lots of different stitches that you can use to give your body your binding a little more up but we're just using a straight stitch today and we're going to do more binding videos later on and maybe talk about putting a flange in your binding and some piping or rick racks and fun things like that so we'll be doing videos on that as well but we're keeping this one kind of simple to make it easy for the beginners too but uh check it out look how pretty it is now there again i think i told you that i stitch my binding on the right side and roll it to the back so this is what the back of mine looks like and my stitching on the top is hidden in the ditch of the seam so that's why i like to do mine um you know on the right side and roll it to the back i prefer this is not what i see on the right side of my quilts okay what are you using to get yeah so um what i'm using is the number 10 presser foot and this particular one is um d so i've got my dual feed engaged so it will feed that binding notice i don't have any little ripples in that binding at all it's because of that dual feed and this 10d presser foot has a fabulous guide now don't mistake it with your blind hem foot which is foot number five the ten foot the guide stops before it reaches the needle area with the number five blind hem foot you can't use multiple needle positions or different stitches with it so that's why bernina made us the 10 foot where this guide stops before it gets into the needle hole area so we can use all our needle positions decorative stitches anything we want to use with this foot it is the most uh bought presser foot that bernina has and i think the latest count there was like 50 some odd uses for number 10. so we'll be showing you you'll see that a lot more because it's one of my favorite feet now um we've done some corners here as you can see they ended up with a nice little miter and everything and when you flip it over you can see the back okay and when i do it if you can use the wonder clips if you want to get your miter fixed and looking nice before you get to the stitch in these wonder clips are great because it kind of crimps it in there so when you take them out it's always almost like you finger press them in they hold it really strong so they'd be pretty good you can also use your wonder clips and clip in places all the way down your binding if you like i've been doing this for so long that um i don't have to do that so let me roll over brandon i'm sorry if i get in your way and i just take my fingers and i roll my binding back making sure that the fold of the binding extends a little past my stitching line all right and then i i don't know why i do this i can't tell you why it's just a habit i'll take my finger and rub down it but you should be able to feel the edge of that fold extending past and then this guide is going to be right in that ditch and keep me perfectly in place as i stitch down and we'll go around one of the points for you it's not hard to do it all sewing like a wild woman you don't have to sew this fast of course this might be a good time for you to remember to set your machine if you have this option in the needle piezo needle down position so that when you have to reposition your hands it will hold your uh your project in place under the needle like i say these wonder clips are great it'll prevent you from stabbing yourself you know by using straight pins but whatever works for you and they have little metal parts so they still go into your magnetic pin cutters yeah now i'm going to pop this little guy off and you can see that because i've had that on there it's really kind of finger press that miter in for me and i'm going to slow down so we're going to sew all the way down to this inner point inner corner i guess maybe would be the best way to phrase it all the way down just take your time and watch and then put the needle down in that inner corner and then turn line the bar back up in the ditch of your seam double check your binding to make sure it's folded over enough to extend past that stitching line and we've got that one down so these aren't really difficult once you get this far along the worst is over just going to hold it right there so i can see that inner corner and you're checking to make sure that needle is actually in the corners right in that corner the guide isn't where the needle ends mm-hmm and whoops veered off a little bit there yeah like brandi said those uh clips i have some metal in them so your pincushions are going to hold them for you all righty and we'll do this one last corner and we'll be ready to go to the home stretch perfect got it right in there okay now when you get back to where you started and i left some little thread tails somewhere and what there they are see so i know where the beginning was because when you're sewing on this side and you're stitching in the ditch with that foot it hides your stitching and you don't know so i left a little thread tail so i'd have a visual on where i was i don't know if you remember but i went ahead and set my machine back up to where when i cut my use my thread cutter it will secure now if you did not then you just hit your reverse button take two or three stitches in reverse and that should be good enough okay and we have our table runner completely finished i am so excited can't wait to see what you guys do if you do so along with us and listen um i'm not professional i know that my videos are probably a little quirky because i'm not professional in doing them but i do love to sew i do love quilt i love to make heirloom garments and i love to share what i know and i've been doing this for over 40 years so i know i'm a little quirky and maybe my english is not the best and i have a really strong southern accent but i'm just trying to share what i know and i hope you enjoy it so we're going to be doing lots of these and it makes me feel so good to know y'all are going to be watching and if you just learn one thing from me i'll be so happy so you want to tell them where to find these or any other additional information about jesus so we're going to be posting our videos on youtube so this video will be on gina's pro tips and again this is gina's bernina sewing center here in knoxville beautiful beautiful night surrounded by the smokies um we also have a facebook page which is gina's bernina sewing center if you want to follow us on facebook and instagram also gina's bernina sewing center so find us join us and look at this beautiful and that yellow table runner thanks for joining us to learn how to make this so pretty let's see the back so they can see all that quilting and it's just simple line quilting and listen we're going to do we're going to do some free motion stuff so you just hang with us i'm going to teach y'all how to do free motion all right guys thanks for joining us we hope you learned something and we love your comments okay so let us know how we're doing and if you're a customer of ours you better let me know bye bye everybody

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Published: Tue Feb 16 2021