Quilting with rulers pt1

it is time to start quilting the quilt along quilt hi there and welcome to a new video on the sugary do channel today my friend over here my bernina 770 and i are going to start quilting the quilt long quilt so the quilt that we made for the sugary du banina cutlong i'm going to quilt it and actually i'm a little bit nervous to start quilting it um but the only way to get it done is to start so what i've done to prepare is that i have some items over here i'm going to show you and after that uh i guess we're just going to hop on so this mini series on quilting this one with rulers and a little bit of free motion quilting uh is going to be in three parts so i'm going to start out with quilting the four center rows in this video i'm just going to show you what design i'm using i'm not going to show you the whole quilting because that's going to take a while um but yeah i'm going to show you what designs i'm doing and showing you how i do that on my machine um and a little introduction in this video on what tools i'm using and what to think of when you set up your machine for a rule of work um and then in the next two videos i'm going to do the other four and four rows and then we have all 12 rows of the uh quilt quilted um yeah so today uh we have to set up the machine to start doing some ruler work and the things i have laying over here are gloves i love to use gloves that are a little these little bubbles knobs are a little bit sticky and so these are uh gloves that i got with a quilting magazine a long time ago but quilting gloves they prevent your hands from slipping over the fabric and that makes it easier to quilt because the more friction you have on your hands the less you have to hold and grab and uh strain um tension your fingers and your arms and your shoulders with that so the more relaxed you can stay during quilting the better it is so these ones help and uh for the same non-slippery stuff i uh use a grippy uh that is a spray that you can spray on your rulers so i just sprayed a few of my rulers rulers another thing that we need today and so i'm going to use the bernina ruler set ruler kit and that has all these cool rulers um so today i'm going to use a few of them so there is this one with those um waves small waves and bigger waves very nice one that has just straight and straight edges and this one has a curve few curves so very versatile rulers and then there's also this set of circle rulers and a set of oval rulers so depending on what rulers you have just follow along with what i'm making on the quilt or think of some design for yourself that you want to make but for the non-slippery i spray a little bit of grippy on a ruler and that makes the surface less um smooth so when you place that on your fabric it's not going to slide over as as much it's just going to stay there so that also helps the more grip you have with your ruler with your gloves and the less pressure you have to put on so we have rulers we have quilting gloves um a ruler foot i am using this bernina ruler food and that is something that's that fits my machine so if you have a different type of machine um ask the the go to the website of the manufacturer or look at what kind of rule effort you need because i believe for every uh almost every machine there should be a rule of food available but this is a 72 bernina ruler foot adjustable in height i'm going to show you in a second how i set up my machine and set up the height of the ruler foot but that is something that you will need and also if you want to start with rulers you have thicker and thinner rulers and that has to do with your machine being a low shank high shank machine that is something you just have to figure out by um i guess googling your machine uh asking um um the store where you bought your machine if they can help you with the advice on that and to get uh the rulers that match uh your machine so yeah the risk with rulers is that when you use a thin ruler it could slip under your foot and that is very messy because then your needle is going to break the ruler and it's going to be awful so yeah that's why these rulers are i think they are quarter inch yeah so these rulers banina rulers are about a quarter inch and they go perfectly with my ruler foot but matching that for a different routine uh you'll have to do some more reading up on that also um i am not super experienced with ruler work uh with free motion quilting i love to do it and i love to learn more about it and get more experience um but i'm also just starting out so i have done some rule of work i've done free motion quilting uh but i'm still learning so if you want some tips and tricks from someone that is way more experienced than me please hop over to the youtube channel by angela walters because she just uh hosted a ruler work uh quilt along and that's awesome because she has some live q and a sessions recorded on her youtube channel and lots of videos using different types of rulers giving so many tips and tricks so if you want more in-depth information from someone having so much experience with the quilting make sure to hop over to angela walters youtube channel i learned tons from her so uh yeah really do check that out if you want to learn more um what else do we need we have the rule ruler foot rulers oh yeah here i have a test piece and i just have this in my box with rulers and whenever i uh set up my machine for ruler work then i just take this out and do some sketching or do some it's kind of sketching do some trial runs with my with my machine on a test piece and this is just two pieces of fabric with some batting in between like my quilt but then just the test piece so i can really recommend first trying out uh on a test piece to see um practice a little bit with your stitch length to uh see if your attention is correct to see check if the bottom side is looking good yeah uh so that i have over here and then i have over here a few sheets of paper and what i did was i enlarged the rows of the quilt and i printed it out so i could sketch on them and i will put this also in the bernina blog post so it will be a coloring page with the these designs um super size so that you can try sketch out what you want so for this quilt i thought let's make all those shapes pop and quilt around them uh yeah so maybe that's going to be a lot of work because you have to do a lot of echoing around these shapes but i think that would be cool so i'm just going to give it a go so what i figured out for the yellow row is i'm going to do kind of straight lines with a little loop every now and then and i'm just going to go around the yellow lines let me see here i have quilted two of those lines yeah you can see them over here so those are pretty close together i want to have my quilting a little bit further apart on the actual quilt because i don't want the quilting to be too dense and then the quilt is going to feel a little bit stiff so i'm going to keep the quilting light aligned nicely spread out and then with the orange row i'm going to go for kind of like a brick design behind uh the hashtags and that is going to look a little bit like this and also here these lines are pretty close together and i just have to see how that's going to be on the row maybe make them a little bit further apart so that's my idea for those two rows then the other two rows that i'm going to do are these two for the arrows i want to do some wavy lines going in between the arrows and for this row i haven't figured it out yet so in that one i still have to decide but i'm first going to do the other three don't have to do exactly what i'm doing i'm just playing around showing you some ideas of how you could quilt your quilt and uh i guess we should just should have a little bit of fun with quilting and see it as a practice even though it's a beautiful finished quilt and you've worked on it for a whole year um when you're new to quilting and it's maybe your first quilt that you're going to quilt uh see it as learning so it doesn't have to be perfect because when it should be perfect the first time we're never going to start because that's scary a scary thought that it should be perfect and it's very hard to make it perfect so lower uh lower the standards uh a little bit for yourself so that you can talk yourself into i can do this i still have to give myself a little pup talk too uh i was uh procrastinating on filming this video uh yeah so it can still feel scary even though it's not your first quilt so um lower the expectations a little bit try just to have fun and get some more experience because i'm sure that when i finish these 12 rows doing a ruler work i have learned tons of using rulers i'm sure of that so i'm looking forward to making those final stitches on the quilt and i'm looking back on those 12 rows and see what i've learned and what is improved along the way yeah so let's get started i'm going to set up my machines um give you some guidance on what to look for on your machine and what you do and then we're going to start quilting okay so first thing i'm going to do is to place my ruler foot in here so i'm just going to remove this food and what you may heard and what it didn't show is i remove this one that is my top um top 10 sport then this one is just going to slide on as a normal foot i'm going to put it in place with this little hook um so yeah that's all there is to it to place the rule of foot and then with this this one you can lower it and make it higher um yeah so that's the installing of the ruler ford and now something else you need to do is to lower your feed dogs if that is possible on your machine so i'm going to go ahead and lower my feed dogs that is a side of my machine over here so i'm just going to lower it by pressing that and then the feed dogs are lowered and what that means is that these ones they help direct your fabric in that direction so to the back of your machine but when i'm doing ruler work i want to move in all directions so that's why they should be lowered if you have a machine where you cannot lower your feed dogs um when i first starting out i started out with my very very first quilts i was um sewing on a super old machine and that wasn't ready to do quilting i guess um that wasn't really made for doing quilting um but there i put over a little plastic plastic sheet a thick plastic sheet where i cut out the holes for the needle and that was on top of my feed dog so that they could not grab my fabric anymore but just brushed against the plastic and i set my stitch length to zero with that machine so that was the way i did it on a very very old machine but here i don't have to do anything about the stitch length i just have to lower the v-docks so then i'm just going to put my test piece and i would start sewing with the normal settings you can see that my food is hopping and that could be fine but with the bernina there is a setting to stop your food from hopping which is awesome and for that you go to the pressure of your foot so that pressure is now set to 50 but when you bring it down all the way down until i believe it should be under minus two minus three or minus four so i'm just going to put down my camera and see if i can show you so now i have it on minus four minus six minus seven minus eight you see my foot is going up minus fifteen and when i'm sewing now this is too high but just to give you the view so my foot is not hopping anymore so i can now put this at the lowest but then there's still too much space uh below the foot for my taste so um i want to have it hovering over the fabric with not too much base so now i'm just going to lower it by making it minus 12 minus 11 minus 10 minus 8 minus 7 minus 6. so depending on how thick your quilt which is you can set this so i think i'm going to set it on minus four minus three that's good the setting of the pressure of your foot when you make it below minus i think it's below minus two but um just try it out on your machine uh so this is how you set it for the bernina 770 um and that stops your foot from hopping so um that is all set up now i'm just going to check my bobbin if that is full and then i'm going to put my quilt under the machine oh yeah and what i've got to say but it's also a great idea is to clean out your machine a little bit so take out your bobbin take off your stitch plate clean it out put on a new needle and that will have you set up for quilting a new quilt but i already did that before this video so i'm not going to do that again today but yeah that's a good thing make make your machine clean nice and clean and then you're ready to go and i'm going to start with the um yellow shapes and i think i'm going to work from the left side to the right side i have a feeling that that's that that is nice so i'm just going to pull my quilt carefully to this side of my machine so i'm going to start out with the yellow one because that is one of the four rows in the center of the quilt but when you're cooled as well basted then you can start where you want to start you can just start where you would like to start in your quilt so there we go here i have everything on this side inside the arm of my machine and i didn't roll it the previous times that i did some ruler work i rolled up the quilt but that makes this part pretty stiff so i'm not going to roll it i'm just going to leave it here as it is and i also want to show you what's happening over here so this is quite a lot of quilt that is now hanging off the table and that will tuck under here and that will make it harder to pull it in that direction so you we want this to go as smoothly as possible and i read a tip or heard a tip somewhere that you can put a pillow on your lap have your quilt on top of the pillow so that's what i'm going to do have you curled on top of the pillow and that will prevent the quilt from tucking under so i'm working in a small area so the area that i'm working in is from here to oops let me show you over here so i'm working in a small area from here to here so this is the space that i need to move and that moves pretty easily now so it's nice to have it on my lap this is movable and then this should as well be movable so just position it like so yep i can move it around pretty easily so time to put on my gloves and then let's start a little bit of stitching there we are all set up for the first stitches and i'm going to move from this side all the way to that side of the quilt um and i think the for to keep the first line somewhat horizontal i'm going to focus on this line because these blocks and these blocks are all the same height so i figured when i have a line on my ruler that i can put on that seam and follow that one and then reposition it to that side then it's going to stay somewhat horizontal um yeah so that's what i'm going to do and the pattern that i'm going to do is a kind of a loopty loop but then straight so i'm going to zoom in a little bit to give you the best view and then continue straight what do you think i think that looks nice oh and i'm going to set my needle in a needle down position so that when i stop that my needle is there um yeah so then i can go all the way from this side to the other side of the quilt um repositioning my ruler often getting the hang of uh getting the hang of things a little bit because i have to practice a little bit on how fast i want to go here you see that my stitches are not super small but i think they look good just going to check the back those stitches on the back also look good so i'm happy with that and uh yeah i think i can continue making uh the quilt like this so it's nice to reposition often because then you can [Music] have your hands close to your foot that makes it easier to um move around and steer everything this little yellow shape is a bit bigger than the other ones so now i'm going to do a little bit of free motion because i want to follow the shape and not go through it i'm just going to sew until the shape and then travel stage around the shape where i've already stitched guess until here yep and then continue i have a new guideline and then to the side so here you see the quilted lines from the first part of this row soft lines quilted pretty far away from each other and i like how this looks i like the soft look here you can see that i started a little bit higher but then decided no i also want those little loops below so i just made an extra line over here um yeah i like how it looks and that is the very first row of the quilt long quilted now it's time for the second row and i'm going to quilt the hashtag row and for this i thought of a design with a kind of a break pattern behind the hashtags but i am just going to um echo around the shapes and then make some extra rectangles or squares inside so that's what i'm going to do i'm going to echo around it with a quarter inch so i'm going to place my ruler uh on the line and then from here to there so the foot the needle is in the center of the ruler foot and that is a quarter inch from the edge so when i have my ruler um on the edge of my shape the line is going to be a quarter inch from the hashtag [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so here are the wavy lines that i made around the arrows and because i'm not going through the arrows you can see that these ones are pretty far away from each other so maybe i'm going to echo a few of the wavy lines when i've done the whole row i like how it looks over here um and for quilting wise this this is going to be enough i mean the quilt is not going to fall apart when you don't quilt them but um these lines are much closer together than this so maybe i can echo a few of the lines but uh i do like how it looks it's pretty wrinkly but yeah the wavy lines i like now one more row to go [Music] [Music] [Music] and then there was this fourth row that i wanted to quilt uh for and i couldn't decide on a design but then when i looked at the blocks i thought it would be nice to make some squiggly lines and then using the ruler to make some lines around the blocks uh yeah so quite happy how it turned out so it feels weird to show you but this is just honestly how it looks so i also have lines that are not straight and not perfect and here my stitches are bigger than here but when i would not show you then it would give a different impression of that it looks good because when uh it does look good but that it would look perfect and i don't think there is such thing as perfect quilting unless you let a computer do it because when you look from it at it from a distance or when you have it on your bed or when you have it on your couch you will not see this so i could say oh i'm not happy with this because um here is a line that is off or over here this wavy line it is a little bit i don't know maybe i was pulling my quilt because i was it was tucked underneath my quilting table um it's not going to be purple over here this line is going inside the green um but i didn't want that but it just happened um but it's okay because all of these stitches uh will improve my stitching so uh i'm pretty happy with how these wavy lines look stitches are pretty regular and shapes look nice and i guess continuing making these really helps me practice so it does feel i don't know a little bit weird to show you my imperfect stitches because of course i want them to be as good as i can get them um yeah so showing something that is not perfect um it's difficult also for me but i think it's good to do that because that is just the way it looks and um um yeah that is not a reason to not make the quilt so i love quilting i have some experience with rulers some experience with free motion quilting i am not super experienced so i'm still learning um yeah and you can see that in my quilting but it is a lot of fun so when you let go of it having to be perfect oops that was my mom calling um where was i not sure something about perfection letting go and enjoying the quilting yeah so that's the most important part let go of how it's supposed to look how computerized stitches look um because this is hand work even though i'm doing it on a machine there is no stitch regulation on the ruler foot so uh yeah it just looks the way it looks and the process is awesome to make this to get closer to finishing the quilt so uh yeah i hope you're going to have a lot of fun trying out quilting or maybe you're super experienced and and you've already finished your quilt-long quilt but um if not and if this is one of your first quilts allow yourself to practice because that creates the most happiness and i guess that is super important especially in these times that we allow ourselves to that we allow ourselves to have fun and letting go of perfection yeah i'm happy with it and i am happy with where this is going i'm going to finish my rose and next week i'm going to do four other rows see you then bye

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Length: 36min 35sec (2195 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 19 2020