Machine Quilting With Debby Brown: Walking Foot Part 1 | An Annie’s Creative Studio episode!

[Music] hi I'm Debbie Brown with Annies creative studio and welcome to this quilters skillbuilders episode this episode is all about straight line quilting with the walking foot on your home sewing machine today I'll show you how to quickly and easily turn your unfinished quilt tops into comforting treasures by quilting them yourself on your home sewing machine simple straight lines can have a high impact on your quilts I'll show you how to accurately space your quilting as well as other tricks to get you quilting with confidence this episode is the first in a series I'll be doing on learning and improving your machine quilting skills be sure to come back next week for the next part in this series if you're already a member of Annie's creative studio go ahead and sign in to watch the full episode if you aren't a member please join us for a free trial and now let's get quilting the walking foot or the even feed foot works in conjunction with the feed dogs as the feed dogs push the fabric up with each stitch from the bottom the walking or even feed foot does the same thing from the top and that way as the fabric is being fed through their machine by the machine its feeding the top and bottom of it evenly if you don't use a foot like this when you're quilting the three layers of your quilt can be fed through your machine separately and risk getting puckers or pleats on the quilt when you're quilting and that's not a surprise anybody wants on their quilt at all so check with your machine manufacturer and see if there's a walking footer and even feed foot available for your model the first pattern many quilters try on their quilts is called stitch in the ditch where they're simply stitching where the seam line is throughout the blocks of their quilt that works great but if you don't have seam lines on your quilt or you want to use this decoratively I'm going to call that same design piano keys which is just a series of vertical lines going up and down your quilt since the machine moves the fabric in one direction forward we're only going to keep moving it in that same one direction we're not technically going to stitch down and then back up and then down we're going to keep stitching in the same direction the whole time now this fabric practice sandwich that I have doesn't have any marks or seams on it and I can draw some lines on there I can use a ruler and a quilt pen to mark those lines instead I'm going to use a stencil and a quilt pounce pad there's white powder inside of this box that whenever I take it out and have the fabric side showing it's going to push the powder over top and through this screen so that the powder will be forced through the holes and onto the fabric it's a very quick way to mark my quilt instead of drawing all the individual lines but do whatever works best for the quilt that you're working on what I like best about this powder is that this one is removed by ironing it and there are my lines on our quilt sample that we have for this class I have these lines going perpendicular to the border line and the knot shows up next to that border line so we're going to make a very careful not to get started here I'm going to start by putting my fabric sandwich under my foot right where the needle will hit the seam line I'm going to push my needle down and then back up I'm going to use that top thread to pull up the bobbin thread so that both the top and bobbin thread are on top of my quilt sandwich I don't want any surprises underneath my quilt I'm gonna put the knee the foot back down with the needle right above that same hole and I'm going to very carefully take one stitch forward and hit my reverse button and take one stitch back and then stitch forward again now as I am trying to stitch very carefully down this line you can see I'm wearing quilt gloves that's gonna help me grip the fabric and steer it now with straight lines it doesn't need that much steering but I like to avoid any hand and arm fatigue of quilting by help you having the gloves the the rubber tips of the gloves help me guide the fabric [Music] once I've stitched to the end of that line which on our quilt sample is out in the batting area of the quilt I don't need to worry about making a knot because I'm going to sew a separate binding over top of it instead of pressing the scissor button on my machine right now though I'm going to leave a long tail and this will help me pull up that long tail at the top again whenever I'm working on the border of my quilt so I'm going to cut a long tail and leave it and do the same on the back not start right back up at the top again so that's needle down needle up pull up the bobbin thread instead of doing that back in fourth stitch like I did last time I actually have a tack stitch button on my sewing machine so I'm going to press that once and push my foot pedal down and it's making its own little tack stitch two ways of achieving the same result and I will stitch down the money once I get to the end once again I'm going to leave long tails now if I want a single piano key over the entire border of my quilt I will continue to stitch exactly the way I'm stitching right now if you've noticed on the quilt sampler that I've made I used a double piano key and what I did for that was I know on my foot this mark right here is a quarter inch mark it's a quarter inch from this mark to where the needle is so if I place that mark on my foot on the previously stitched line my needle will be a quarter inch to the right of that so I'm going to make a line one inch over and then one quarter inch over I'm going to start with my needle right at the top again needle down needle up pull up that bobbin thread don't do it quick back and forth here [Music] stich to the end and leave a long tail so grooming is really important on your quilt as you're stitching you can either take your scissors and cut all of these threads that are right already knotted right where they are or you can take and thread them through the eye of the needle and pull it inside of the quilt the next pattern is building on the first you can stitch this design on your quilt with no markings if you have a patchwork design like a checkerboard or a nine patch a four patch anything like that with seams since I don't have seams on my fabric once again I'm going to be marking it and I'm going to be marking it in a one-inch grid I have a one-inch stencil again I could mark this with a pen and a ruler if I choose and I now have the grid on my fabric I'm going to stitch vertical lines like I did on the first sample [Music] once I have all my vertical lines stitched I'm going to take my entire quilt and turn it 90 degrees and I'm going to stitch what are now the vertical lines what used to be the horizontal ones and Stitch the same way [Music] and you can see I have a checkerboard stitched on my quilt to make it look more plaid which is what I've stitched on the sampler I stitched one quarter inch on each side of each line so I know again on my walking foot that this inside mark right here is a quarter of an inch so I'm going to rest that on the previously stitched line I'm going to stitch a quarter inch to the right of each of my lines and I know that this inside line on my walking foot is also a quarter of an inch so I'm going to line that up with my center line and stitch a quarter inch on the left side of each line as I go [Music] so you can see here and on my quilt sample what a great look this is on a quilt you can take a very very simply pieced quilt with a lot of big squares on it and really improve the way it looks or dress it up by stitching it once or twice on either side of the seat cross-hatching is a traditional quilt pattern it is a grid of diagonal lines stitched across your quilt it looks like it might take a lot of marking but it doesn't take as much as you think it might let me show you how to do it I'm going to mark a series of 1-inch lines and I'm using a one-inch gridded stencil again I'm gonna do just a little marking with my pen and what a highlight that we're going to quilt what looks like a border area so a long and skinny section that's the area where I want to stitch cross hatching again you might think you need to make a lot of marks but I let the chalk marks in the grid do most of the marking for me I'm going to mark my very first stitch line and then I won't have to mark anymore now if you're stitching this on a border like I did on our sampler quilt you'll want to be careful with your knots when they're going to show on your quilt but on this piece I'm not going to take the time to make all of the billet all tiny little knots I'm going to start right on this corner and stitch along this first line and if this is in my border I can continue past that line because that's going to be in the binding and no one will ever see it and cut my thread I've added a left-hand seam guide to my machine and what that is is it is adjustable I can move it in and out and I can make my second line of stitching based on my first line of stitching so I'm going to put my needle down where I want to start that second line of stitching and I'm going to put my my seam guide right where that first line of stitching is and I will make sure that this seam guide follows the seam while I'm stitching and I have a nice echo I'm going to do the same thing now if you're counting the number of knots that I have to make on a sample this size it might be tempting to stitch down pivot the quilt and turn it but if you're doing this on a full quilt or if you're doing this on the border of a quilt there's going to be an awful lot of turning and rotating of that quilt and you're really going to get an upper body workout so while you can rotate and continue your lines sometimes it's easier to make a knot than it is to shove the entire quilt inside of the small opening of your sewing machine so I've stitched all of the lines in that one direction except for those beginning ones I could put on a right side seam guide but what I will probably do is turn my quilt upside down and make those lines in the same way so I now have all of my lines going in one direction your quilt can be finished at this point this is a great design just as it is but I'm going to mark it in going in the opposite direction to give a true crosshatch I'm going to mark my first diagonal line and I'm going to stitch that [Music] now on the quilt sample I was much more careful about the knots so I didn't have all the threads hanging but you can see how simple it was to stitch all of that to stitch the zigzag I've drawn a border and I've drawn in the first zigzag on my quilt I'm going to start out by stitching that exact line and when I get to a corner I want to take an extra stitch that way whenever I go to turn the quilt and stitch again I'm not going to have the bobbin thread pull up that's a risk whenever you stitch one stitch and change directions now like I did with the cross hatching I'm going to determine using the left side seam guide how far away from the first line of stitching I want the second line of stitching so if I want them to be one inch apart I can take my ruler and putting my needle on on a whole inch and I'm pushing the seam guide until it hits an inch so I now know the different the distance between my seam guide and my route and my needle is one inch I'm going to stitch along echoing that first line and when I get to that Center mark that I've marked I'm going to take that extra stitch in turn looks like I need to take one more stitch that looks much better and I can go echo another I can do another zigzag one inch inside again doesn't that look great on the quilt so far how am I going to get to stitch these the triangles underneath I am going to turn the quilt upside down and do the same thing [Music] a fun design to stitch on a block is a square spiral it's also fun to stitch on an entire quilt however it does involve moving the entire quilt around and around and around so be prepared for some upper body upper arm workout coming up I have a six inch block drawn on my square and I have my seam guide placed one inch from my needle so I'm going to line my needle up with the seam of the quilt and the seam guide with the next seam so I can start stitching here again on the quilt sample I would make sure that I was much more cautious with my knots but here I'm going to just go for it and I can stitch down one inch away before I do that though it's best that I know where to stop this line so I'm gonna bring in my ruler in my marker just make a little dot where I'm going to stop stitching so start stitch right to that dot take my extra stitch stitch and turn I'm gonna mark that dot again rotating this small piece of fabric doesn't feel like much work but if this were an entire quilt I was moving trust me I feel it there we go I've ended in the last right on the dot let's make another dot can you see how this is going while I'm at it I'm going to make a dot an inch from that line as well stitch right to the dot turn now I'm going to stitch to that dot I've already made again turn it's time to put in some more dots and you can make you can stitch all the way to the center or you can stop anytime you like ah I'm gonna actually roll my machine my needle backwards I took one step too far and let's mark where we're going to end one inch and one inch and I think I'm going to end it by stitching all the way into the stitch to the seam lines that I already have so I'm gonna close it in the middle you get to make these decisions for yourself and make a little knot at the end there and trim did you like that square spiral it has a lot of options you can stitch it any width you want you can leave it open in the center you can close it in the center I think it's a fun design hopefully you've seen that stitching straight-line designs using the walking foot on your home sewing machine can be simple thanks for joining me for walking foot part 1 join me next week for more of my tried-and-true tips and techniques for building your machine quilting skills and remember to stop by Annie's creative studio Facebook page and share which designs are your favorites until next time I'm Debbie Brown [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 22min 9sec (1329 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 12 2020