HQ Sweet Sixteen - Getting Started (Part 2)

free-handing there you go you have it right there for you sometimes your fabric is all you need for inspiration look at these cute spring flowers I could just outline around the flower and then maybe do the santur move on maybe a loop between and then just move on to the next flower that is an easy thing to do another thing we can do is we can use quilters preview paper that helps us look at our quilt and decide what designs would work best with our piecing here we have a nine patch let me show you what I can do with the preview paper I've already drawn my nine patch here all right with a continuous curve let me show you the path I would just go around my continuous curve I could do this freehand or I could use a ruler in a minute I'm going to show you how to use rulers on your sit down just travel around the nine patch when I get here to an intersection I'm going to serpentine through there and around I'm going to work myself through this block with one start and one stop back and I'm gonna go back right to where I started okay so that nine patch was easy to figure out but what else do I want to do I don't want to leave this on quilted so before stitching it out and deciding I didn't like it I can preview I'm using a shop sharpie marker you can see the black lines on the preview paper indicate where you wereyou your edge of your paper is so that you don't draw on your quilt so let's see if just a squiggle would work through here I could just see if I like that or maybe I want to do something like this oh I don't know if I like that or not but see how much easier this is to do I can preview it and I don't have to do any unpicking great product let me show you how to pull up your bobbin thread and get started quilting I do a gentle tap with my foot on the pedal you can also press the touchscreen if you like today I'm going to use the foot pedal just a light tap does my needle down and up pull my bobbin thread and I'll go back and just anchor my thread and then I can start off quilting I love the LED lights here there's 28 of them you can see what great light that gives me on my fabric an accessory that's available for your sit down machine is our open toe foot it gives you a better view of your needle as you're quilting rulers can be used with your sweet 16 you want to make sure that you use quarter-inch thick acrylic rulers let me show you how to do it I'm using our versa tool here and going to do some clam shells I move the ruler along with my fabric then when I get down I pause move my ruler over and do the next one see that hopping foot is just moving along the edge of the ruler think of all the possibilities there are let me show you another thing that you can do with your ruler the sticky dots can be applied to the back here to keep that ruler from slipping so then as I apply it and I can put it on either side of my hopping foot then that keeps that ruler in place as I sew let me tell you how I would set my presets when I'm going to use rulers I may have one of my spree set set at 10% because I'm going to go a little bit slower another time when I'm trying to finish up a quilt I may have it set at 60 70 percent and just do an overall freehand the preset allow me to customize my quilting speed I have my machine curzon now and I have my preset speed set I'm just going to put my pedal all the way to the metal and here we go 58 percent you're going to love quilting on your HQ sweet 16 you'll be amazed how easy it is with the large throat space and the ability to set your favorite speeds happy quilting [Music]

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Id: Rh3XyizjWic

Length: 7min 0sec (420 seconds)

Published: Tue May 10 2011