Straight Line Quilting

hi I'm Vicky Hoffman antique welder and joining me today is Cheryl Duncan one of my studio educators and we are here to show you everything you can do about straight line quilting so Cheryl you're gonna start with straight line rulers that's your way of doing straight line quilts it is if you want a straight line straight use a ruler that's right so let's first of all show all the rulers that honey color carries that you can get a straight line with okay okay so remove those all aside our first one is the two by six the HQ mini and this has always been my favorite well because it fits in your hand right that's right so you never lose control as you're using it okay we'll put that aside the next one is the HQ three by twelve it's a little bit longer so if you've got a longer span to reach across you can reach it with that okay so but it is it is harder to control well this is the straight edge the HQ straight edge ruler which she said is three by twelve and when you say it's hard to control is we always talked about where the hopping foot is is where our hand should be right so if we're here and our hopping puts down here we've got issues a lot of times people forget that - okay the next one is the HQ versa tool and it has your straight edge here along with some other shapes and it has the quarter inch markings on it and it has a brake on it so that it forces you to stop and move the ruler and move your hand that's right so guideline so it can only sit that floor before you have to use it or move it and that's the nice thing because you can hold that with one hand and as it stitches you can shift and you never lose control right alright our next one which is a favorite let's see let's turn this around so it the next one is the HQ mini circles and these are circles I thought we were doing straight lines well it's a bonus okay you get the mini circles but you also get the straight line on the edge of the ruler that's right so you can find another ruler you can use this one as I have the markings I have definitely does have the quarter it yeah that's all use that one okay and then this is my favorite this is the mini scallop and the thing that I really like about it is that it's a little bit longer so that you have a little more room to stitch before you have to move the ruler and yet you can still control it so how's your breaks has the breaks and it has large markings on it too I have to admit this has become my favorite ruler to see I sold you all on it okay and then that's last one here the right angle rulers around here and with the right angle you need to remember that you want to use the inside of the ruler well this is a straight line why don't I want to use that well you can use that but don't try and come around the corner or you'll get a rounded corner not a nice point okay good good point on that now the thing I notice on every one of these rulers that I've been pulling out here is they have this ruler grip they do it's kind of a sandpaper type stuff at hey see those sticks and it's six to the rulers and it just grips the fabric enough and if you're using the sweet 16 it's really important because you're moving the ruler with your fabric and so that helps grip the fabric good points very good point okay let's see straight line so what's your best way of stitching in the ditch I'm just going to take all your rulers away okay we'll keep that one for you because I think you have something else to show us okay you're stitching the ditch stitch in the ditch is it a straight line it is well hopefully it's a straight line depending on your piece or it might be a little wavy but you kind of just pressing the fabric and you can adjust your ruler to that okay when you're using the rulers you want to make sure that you have your ruler base on though and I do have my ruler based on that gives you a good platform you can see there to place that ruler it gives us some more style okay so I'm just gonna stitch a straight line right in the ditch here normally I wouldn't use this dark a thread but you are right in the ditch you're doing a great job there yeah we hope ya see how you're moving your hand so that you're always in control or the ruler great straight line and then when I get to the end I stop my machine so there are lots of different ways to use rulers in channeling creating different channels but can you do a diagonal I can the one thing that I need to remember is that I want to allow for my copying foot at this other end is and I want to keep control as I go so you're gonna hold it here and then as you get up there check it out right okay good control if I can see that I'm off just a little bit I can adjust my ruler that was good great job okay right yeah straight line quilting at horizontal vertical and diagonal yes I can't all right well great let's move on to our next machine and we will learn some more about straight line quilting our next studio educator is Carrie Rollins hi glad to have you here so tell me what you've got for straight line quilting okay we have here the handi quilter channellocks okay they look like a plastic ring yes and they've got the rubberized solution on him I know the older ones have little boots on him I think I call them fondly these though they've actually dipped in some kind of rubberized solution so that it really holds the grip so it grips okay and where do you put those when you want to do a horizontal straight line we are going to put these on the front wheels of the machine the machine okay sure where they go okay step back here and let you point out now I've already put two on these are the green ones we have black and green so it doesn't matter what color you just so it works yeah just whatever you get these will work so I put them on this wheel and this wheel okay and so will you take that one off and we have to show how that works okay so you just just kind of spring that open and put it on okay that locks it so then come on back to the front here okay and that's giving me a horizontal so it's gripped the machine on the carriage and we'll allow it but you're not where you need to be you're right and the nice thing about these is that they have they give you a little bit of move so that you can move them there's resistance there so you don't want to design-wise so you then you oh yeah but oh boy it locks it it does now it's just gonna go horizontal right right so we're going to go ahead that not seeing your put at you you have two layers of batting here with a special I do dislike foot works great when you have more than one batting or I lost so it just glides over the top absolutely it's very nice so I will get my right where do you want to be your own extra batting at the top and we're going to go ahead I've got it on a basting stitch okay and so we're going to just start yeah and just adding a little tension there and it's a straight line yeah we're all talking about today and this will give you the straight line you need to picture quilts to so that it will square up the quilt all right so what if you wanted to do I this works great but I want to do a vertical so that means I want to be able to move the machine and lock the carriage okay and in that instance we will put the channel locks on the carriage wheels okay let's see how that work and do that okay so now I'm just gonna place these on the carriage wheels here and there you have it okay let's go to the front of the Machine again okay so now as you as you move your handlebars you can tell that there's resistance going so you can still in the way you can move him but you feel that you can really feel it oh yeah alright so it's just a real nice Glide yeah they don't have to do yeah you don't have to put any pressure on it or anything you just can bring it down like this and tack that down there's your straight line that's great and so not only in in basting but also in other techniques yeah and piano keys or anytime you want a vertical straight line or horizontal that's great well let's move over to Murray and see what she's got now all right hi Vickey huh look at this fun project alright so we've done rulers we've done the channel lock this is the plastic channel locks you have a toy that I am so excited about I could sell this to everyone that does not own a pro stitcher because if you have a pro stitcher then there's another application but this I am so excited about this it just gives me good fun so go for it dude this is actually an electromagnetic channel lock and what you can see this is just a little box and on the on the box that attaches with Velcro to your machine then here you have one goes vertical one goes horizontal and in the center it leaves it free and you free motion cream motion right and you can see there's a cord that goes to the back of and then that plugs in so it plugs into an an outlet to the wall and so there's a steel plate that goes along the table right up against the track that the magnet will attach to that and you can only move your machine vertical there's also keep going oh there's also a white plate the attaches to the body of the machine so that when it the magnet attaches to that that's all attached on the carriage and it when it magnets to that then which way do you go then you're only going to go horizontal there we go this is yes who loves this much I was played with this the most right she's loving this okay so do I see how it works I want to see what project you've got alright so what I'm going to do is just a little quilt here so I've kind of left a little space so I can just figure out I'm going to do stitch and flip so that's how much room I need to have okay so I just kind of leave this to a surprise so now we're gonna advance this just illusion can I help you here I'm would you help me get put totally in the throat space in the machine okay all right tie everything up you're good to go I am good to go so I kind of want to line this up so it's going to be square to the frame so I'm going to start here you're lining the block up I'm right I'm going to start with the block so I'm just kind of move that out of the road can you feel that it's not lost so you're doing your vertical quilting you're gonna make a vertical line I'm going to make a vertical line and this channel off is just going to keep it straight I'm about to the top there and I'm just going to flip that so there's a lot of different ways you can use this you can hold it in your hand or you can just leave it there to work so what you have just done is created all the way over here a 90 degree angle because your quilt is true 90 degrees right right right you cut it right 90 degrees oh and I spent a lot of time sewing this block together so I'm going to just line that would you like some pins to put in those four corners please there's your three I'll bring you a fourth one here all right so you're lining that right up so you true-true 90 degrees what about this side so this side I am already there so I think I'll just use that channel lock and see if I can get it right on okay I have a quarter of an inch wiggle space okay we like little space come over here and then you're gonna what I'm not saying anything you go for it tell me what you're gonna do I think I can just stitch it down oh okay you're trying to have it pinned down so you're gonna do a vertical line down or across which way you're going oh you're I'm gonna hold on now you're creating that'll either 90-degree corner small projects on a frame so I've got my hand free to make sure my fabric is good I pull that far enough forward for you I think we're just enough okay now so you're gonna have to pull that were Clips night oh you have to push it all the way wiggle oh good thing that's in there all right now here we go really straight okay and smooth that out so it takes out any foolish to need some help all right now all the way so did you okay you're doing your Betty go again and it's nice and smooth oh this is totally gonna be squared up to the frame and you have my hat again or just keep it out well it depends how brave are you okay here we go cross the other way horizontal across and see how she's adding a little tension on that left side there to take out any fullness and make it go straight oh this is square all right there we go all right can I take your pins out you can't we'll put this in free motion just like that there just to the zero did you bring your scissors with you yes I did all right I'm gonna take your pins up all right first we're going to add the sides and did you know you can just quilt with your make a quilt with your long arm so your quilting and your piecing and quilting at the same time at the same time so you're like doing your stitch in the ditch and what how are you making sure you have a quarter inch I am lining up with my hopping foot all right and vertical channellock I thought you're gonna have to use a ruler Oh gonna get together when ready yeah quilt by committee that's what it is you can't just I'm gonna stand around you've got to do something turns out you did good job you line it up good watch this free motion move it oh that's what I like it's just like that just snap it off and you're ready to move it vertical which is the single line down this is one square quilt when we're done isn't it it is you know you use those Channel accent that just gets everything square all right now what well then we have borders so it's quilted and it's like stitched in the ditch yeah and you can't even see it because it's under this thing oh sorry I was right on that ditch right yes but I could use this to stitch right in the ditch too because it would go okay so you piece this this part on your domestic machine correct yes oh you didn't do any of that part all right here but all of your borders your but do you need some Pam you got some samples there show those samples there's lots of stuff you can do okay well go I'll wait in a minute until you get across there till I go across yeah you want lake I don't want I want the camera to really be able to see what what we've got here all right we're going to do yeah but you still need that that quarter-inch help yeah there's a choice which one's gonna be my best friend here all right back to free motion so this is going to make life really easy lots of different quilting options yeah so then you just had your bottom one and you're good to go so okay I want to now move these over okay I love that green hold we should put shamrocks in here or free motion quilting so the quilt this is like a placemat start place this one down put this one on top right sides together and Stitch the seam flip it over and just work your way down then take this piece right sides together stitch here flip it over then I noticed straight line quilting and then you can see on the back that it it was quilted yeah was there are some plans last PC yeah so again another one the same thing this was used the pro stitcher some designs now one thing about this channel lock the electromagnetics if you have a pro stitcher then you can't have this because you already have those features but if you don't have a pro stitcher this is like this is like what you got to have right it's so fun okay okay alright so now I see you've got some other projects or all right are you gonna let's just talk about channel locks right we are piano keys so I could do piano keys with this I actually like to come from the outside okay and so you're gonna follow because this kind of gives you with the lines here it's like a natural and unite you to basted this down so that it would be stable is that what you're gonna do now you're just gonna start up I'm just gonna show you that I can just got that on there so I can just go straight across like that and then okay so why would you do that rather than going to the ditch and stitching down so you'd come over here and and just go out so I'm right on the same line okay because you're because you have to channel it that's yeah so if you're using a ruler it might not be as accurate if you shifted your ruler but where you're at if you use a fine thread you know a monofilament or a really fine thread you won't see that double stitching over there right or like in this case you might want it to show yeah might want to thread that show yeah so yeah then you know it even shows more cuz you're going across look at that so I'll create that fun okay so don't can I show you something else yeah please yeah all right so let's just turn that on so we're going across you've the other than the white but I just want to get over here to this plain fabric where there's like space to quilt right right so lots of modern quilting is kind of angular and so we could just go across change so if you put that in your hand down where your handle is take that belt off hold up and then I can just okay so we're going down just flip them back and forth and it gives me Grace's change this which magnet is grabbing a hold of the machine look how fun I know you try this right the only thing that we have done the previous two machines you can do here oh yeah well almost did diagonal I can't do diet you can't do diagonal so what do you want to tell me about this block that you've got here so this block here I could set it up the same as that I could do square and then a lot of modern quilting is just straight lines across and I could do that or I could do a channel lock and just stop on this side tie off move across channel lock to the other side so it just doesn't even stitch over it right that we did this with and you can see all of these channel locks oh that is awesome but still you have the fullness of the quilting so so you didn't put this on after you put this on and it stopped tied off and jumped over John yeah I don't they stay exactly straight right cuz you have the very same and both ways and then I see you have some piano keys yes yeah borders just call for it and you filled it in with some fun little circles and I see here you've done some channel quilting here quarter in so many ways and times that you can use the channel lock yes there are okay well back to the question and you do diagnose I can't do diagonal but I get really good straight lines vertical and horizontal okay so they are locked solid so why don't you follow me next door here summary come on over here and we talked about can you do diagonal I can do that hi so I can do the channel lock with the pro stitcher I've got the horizontal channel like the vertical channel lock and I can do diagonal but let's start with the horizontal and vertical so in our channel lock I've got it right here on the screen here there's my horizontal button and my vertical and to get to that you have to go to quilt okay okay and then I want to do the same thing that Kerry did I want to plumb up my quilt or you know square up my quilt so I use my horizontal and I squared it up across the top I use my vertical and got my square my 90-degree corners I think you did that too didn't you I did that I'll do that all right so least squares on right there okay yep oh shoot well I can do stitch in the ditch I can't do stitch in the ditch okay so I can do diagonal I've had let's see you do stitch in the ditch all right let's do session this I have purple thread okay I have purple thread and I have actually a block here and I want to stitch down there so purple heavyweight thread and we talked earlier this is a taboo thing you don't do it but I want to do it for you so you can see it on on the cameras so I'm going to go ahead and come in here and we talked about vertical and horizontal channel lock I've got another feature it's called move so we're going to go ahead and go to move and the move button and with move you can see these arrows and they go in all of those directions okay it can move in those directions without stitching if I don't press the stitch and if I press continuous I can just press the button and it'll go and hold out and it's just gonna go straight straight line quilting rester but I didn't quilt did I so if I press the stitch button then it would stitch if I want to do it continuous without having to hold it I press that continuous button and then press that and it would just go in that straight line I can go any direction look at that nice 45 degrees let's do the other side it's going I can go up I can do diagonal quilting and I can slow it down or I could speed it up okay we're gonna stop that so how do i stitch all of that you need to do with any hands for you yeah look model yeah channel lock you have to push the button mm-hmm yes with a move you can press the continuous and then press the button here and do that but why when I can just press stitch and it will stitch for me so I'm going to come over here disable my motors I'm going to come over here right to the ditch and right berry and I I've got my stitches at 12 stitches per inch I think I'll leave it at that so you can kind of see it with the camera so we want our close-up camera to come right in here because we want to be able to see what's going on there I'm going to stitch vertical in the ditch okay and you know seams aren't always straight so I'm going to slow my speed down and use my hands to kind of shift my fabric if I need to you know there are some quilters that have a hard time using rulers because maybe with arthritis or they just struggle with using rulers well and our eyes aren't any younger so that makes a difference too yeah so we want plenty of light on this project and so I'm going to come right down here and I'm gonna do a little tie off right here with my needle up I don't want my needle in the down position to start I'm gonna slow my speed way down I need way down this is gonna be really drastically down like you're gonna see each strike and now I'm gonna stitch and which way do I want to go down so I want to press the stitch button but I want to go this way right very cool okay so don't press the button and I'll hold up teamwork okay so if it goes down I can see slowly and that's sometimes that's how slow I stitch in the ditch with a ruler anyway and I am just using my hands to make sure do you see how I can put weight on one side or the other so if you were really doing this you would do it with a light colored thread that would match a tiny stitch and just marry it right in that scene that's right you're really being brave and letting everyone see how accurate it is in the ditch and good job yeah except you're gonna have to stop me cuz I'm just sayin say when I would stop a little earlier and then I could disable my motors and finish it off insight into that and then just go the vertical or horizontal direction and around and I would have that totally stitch by just vice that's really okay pretty cool so how about if I just do a diagonal opposite stitches and you can see that that was that would just go up there and you know that geometric thing you were doing over there cool I knew that you were gonna one-up me so we just go for it free motion quilting I think I might speed it up just a little bit and just press the buttons and press the buttons and just keep Facebook okay oh you really want this off and down so I can do any type of angle 45 degree you are gonna have to stop that but I could do anything I wanted in there so let's go ahead and clip our threads and move over let me help thanks to my next block first of all before we move over to the next block let's show you something so here are two quilt blocks just cross-hatching that you can do that with now this one is stitched all the way through right over and it's not a problem yeah does that bother you no okay this one is stitched through it now if with red work that would be great I wouldn't stitch through a design like this this wonky little lady here Sun bonnet girl so there would be some stops right like this so this one stitched up and then you'd have to tie off you'd have to stop right and come up here and get you know you'd have to mark everything but on the back of it you can kind of see how it's not quilted there you can kind of see that floppiness on it and even on the front so that's not quilted I would go through and probably anchor some of that down but that one's quilted it was done finished ready to move on to the next block okay I have a block here like that wasn't that cute that I'm gonna do basically the same thing that I'm not going to stitch through it so as I come across here and I could put on my echo feet for spacing I actually just marked this one inch I'm going to come over here and tie that down there and then I'm gonna stitch across using I could use it the move to go across or I could go back to the channel X and I actually prefer the channel locks on this because I'm in control of the power so I'm getting pores on ttle across and this is our thread I wouldn't recommend it but we are undoing it so you can see so right at the top there okay then vertical down to the next one and horizontal back over and as I get to this point I'm gonna do a little tie off then I'm just going to jump over and because I've got that channel it's not gonna shift its get it done this that's what I was telling you oh okay vertical down across horizontal across to right there and then skip over so so you're gonna ask me what am I gonna do with those threads right go ahead ask me after the quilts finished I'm just gonna clip them off okay yeah because it's not gonna bother as I cuz I'm going up the other way too so again horizontal across tie it off a little knot and if you don't want the knot then you're gonna have to clip and air your threads but there's no choice it's how we use a light thread yeah oh absolutely across there now okay so then you'd clip these threads right here so you can totally see what's going on there and because this is really heavy thread so you're gonna see that little knot that I did and normally you wouldn't do that but this is so you can see it now I'm going to do say this come up here and do the same thing going vertical so we showed those quilts the snowman on that that they were all diagonal and which I can do but even even the grid I'm sorry I'm gonna go across here go up pretty cold so we're gonna come up do a tie off stop move up tie off stop move up tie on and now we've created a fun grid okay now it's the more straight line quilting ready I'm just just gonna disable my motors and I'm going to come in here and I could use my motors or the machine has just enough grab on with the pro stitcher motors enabled or disabled that it allows me to do free motion and then I'd come over here and go down and so when I finish this block will have this little checkerboard look to it okay very cute alright so back to that diagonal but I keep telling you you can't no I'm not rubbing it in I just showing you something yes yes so the diagonal that we saw here was 45 degrees right right and so what about the 30-degree corner are the angles a 60 degree angle well you don't have done in move you only had a 90 that's right so then you'd have to maybe go back to your rulers and use your ruler right pull something out of your hat so look at this this is not 30 this is like a 25 degree angle here or hundred-and-something so these are different angles which you can do that by another feature that the pro stitcher has all right so let's go to design and go to freehand and you can actually mark so if I were to put some some marks on this with a pencil or a pen and mark it so far apart or use maybe moment my echo feet a spacer I can create this lines these lines so let me show you this these are not necessarily they they may be 45 degrees but they may not be I may have some different angles in here this was all done using the pro stitcher okay with diagonals die back and I got it okay okay I didn't read that it well with pro stitcher you've got it all alright let's move over here and I've got this piece of fabric marked and it's gonna I'm gonna finish it to look like that okay and this is how you made your other one yes it's just a raw edge cat does that other one that I showed you was just a little mini charm packs so if you take oh let's get one that's not wrinkled just pull all of them out of here and if you take a little square here and either put like a dog daba this glue or there's a another glue here you're gonna put glue on your quilt yeah I could on the club and I'm just gonna DA bit and write on these four corners and I'm gonna put it right here so I'm matching up see how I've marked this quilt I saw this done once I thought oh that is such a cute idea so I've got those glued down I'm going to go ahead and put one more dance on and then show you what mark can do for us if I don't get my fingers all glued up here help me please oh okay then I'm gonna put that one on there square it up perfect then I would I would work my way across and then on this one I would do a half a one here right there because I want to do quilting and yeah okay so I'd put those across there and I would glue them down down and all the way across all righty it's starting to build it's starting to create that chevron right now but those I've got to stitch down oh so if I had my glide fit on not yeah the glide foot it would not catch any edges with it I know where you can get one of those that's right but I want to show you what happens if I don't have my glide foot on and then you have want the glide I know because it's so awesome so I'm I'm putting my hopping foot in the middle right there right right in that corner and that's giving me a quarter inch inside okay then I'm going to on my screen here I've gone to design freehand I'm gonna use the mark button and I'm actually gonna mark press the mark and will refresh that so you can see that and then I'm coming up and mark again refresh that so you can see that has created a stitching line and just using your hopping foot is that quarter-inch guide right and it's a straight line is not what we're talking about today straight lines so then I'm going to come down and mark again it's create giving me a diagonal straight line then I'm going to come over and just let the machine this is where the glide foot is so nice because it would just glide over that come over here mark and will refresh that so you can see that turn off that box you can actually whoops so you can actually see and it's not real accurate but it's gonna follow what I've given it to fair to do mark again refresh that so you're seeing so I would go all the way across right and then I would actually work my way back and here there will be an over stitch and I'm and it's all straight lines and it's just going to quilt that out it'll quilt it out and and with the glide foot they will stay there because they're just a dot of glue grabbed on there okay that glue who watches out afterwards and then do the same thing here that's attached then maybe I want to do some type of chevron quilting here so I would just come in here I would clear out what I did here in here and then on this maybe do some marks or do maybe some wonky looking so I'll get rid of that design and again mark and maybe come down here mark up here bars aren't like true 90 degree or what that's right I'm doing whatever I want and it kind of will make it a little like we call wonky yeah alright and so I marked out I'm gonna come down maybe I'll put this one down close wrong-o I mean mark watch and maybe this one not so close so what I've done is I have created a stitch line that's straight I don't have to use my ruler and I don't have to and I get diagonal and you get dangle and it's accurate and it stays nice another great tool so we're gonna bring Cheryl and Kerry back in and with their fun tools we're gonna set everything aside here so we have some room we'll go get your fun tool alright we're all here together we have gone through lots of tools lots of gadgets and things from handi quilter that the quilter that you as the quilter can use on your quilting to get the straight-line quilting so Cheryl I had my rulers and you got straight line quick I got straight line quilting and the ruler grip to hold that down the ruler base carry I have my channel locks I have all these fun final feet and we saw how all of those feet work and they are they're great to have okay electro channel yeah that's right yes so almost as good and the prostitute that gives you a lot of other features is yeah so so we have a quilt here that Marie has done beautiful quilt and you can see the piano keys that she's added some fun the channel quilting straight line quilting a lot of this you know just stitch in the ditch all of these what do you think guys awesome so many times you use straight lines and yeah well yeah so I hope you've enjoyed this webinar today or this tutorial on how to do straight line quilting come back and see us again and enjoy the tools

Channel: Handi Quilter

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Keywords: Handi Quilter, Straight Line Quilting, Channel Lock, Rulers, Electromagnetic Channel Lock, HQ Pro-Stitcher, HQ Glide Foot

Id: i6w4Axore1s

Length: 43min 26sec (2606 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2015