Fancy Blanket Stitch on Different Machines

[loise98]

I have to take a closer look at my machine and give all its blanket stitches a try.

[BettyD]

I thank you too, Susan. I also have the 730 and will check out this stitch. It's always good to learn new things to try.

Betty D, Delaware OH

[anne1]

I have a Janome 6600 and the stich I am using is mode 2 number 35 stitch width 2..... but 37 is also nice just a bit heavier on the bite. I am adjusting stitch length and width to get it just as I want it.
Anne

[suehenyon]

Beverly, I had to go looking! The problem with the location of those stitches, is that it means that switching back and forth between straight stitch and the half blanket is a bit more cumbersome than using those nice stitches on the same screen in the quilting menu. I ended up switching by using the stitch number input. If anyone knows a faster way, I'd like to know!

This will make no sense to anyone who doesn't have this machine, but may help those who do!

[suehenyon]

The other stitch is 754, not 745. I've edited the original post about this, just so, if you are looking, you are not thinking you or I, are crazy :-)

[Zarah]

Beverly, I had to go looking! The problem with the location of those stitches, is that it means that switching back and forth between straight stitch and the half blanket is a bit more cumbersome than using those nice stitches on the same screen in the quilting menu. I ended up switching by using the stitch number input. If anyone knows a faster way, I'd like to know!

This will make no sense to anyone who doesn't have this machine, but may help those who do!

If you have a machine that can remember your stitches, you can put the ones you use in a separate folder and then you have them all at the same screen. This is easily done on my Bernina 830. This machine also have another feature, that I use all the time. It remembers the last 15 stitches you have sewn. They are on the same screen too.The advantage of these two possibilities is that it also saves the tension and everything else, you changed

[suehenyon]

OMG Thank you Zarah. I have this, just never used it before. It's the heart with a smiley face in the middle on a 730.

[NanaPie]

Zarah, a big thank you to you too! I love that not only does TQS teach us about quilting, it's members teach us (me!) more than I knew about my own machine! FUN!

[Zarah]

That's what makes the TQS forum such a great place. Glad that it helped you

[Margo]

Now that everyone can watch ALL of the TQS episodes, check out #1011 with Carol Ann Waugh.

At minute 16:20 she explains how useful it is to create a "bible" of machine stitches so that you know what YOUR machine is capable of!

http://watch/watch-shows/video/show-...dous-stitching

[BettyD]

Many thanks! After all the years of having the 730, I see that doing this quilt will finally teach me how to take advantage of more of it's great capabilities.

Betty D

[NanaPie]

I remember seeing that show, Margo, and thinking "I should do that". Now I believe I will! Beverly

[sewwhatwhere]

I used E56 on my Viking Designer 1_ and shortened both length and width to 2.0. I suppose that, if someone wanted a heavier look and only had a regular buttonhole stitch, they could try heavier thread...? but then there's a bigger needle hole...
Yes, it's slow going [versus a regular buttonhole stitch]... but a very pretty look. as for the corners- after watching the show Monday, i tried to be so careful- honestly can't say they came out any better than the F letter I did before watching..? : {
Hey, anybody else sing silly jingles to the backward, forward, 1,2, 3 motion of the stitch?

I use that stitch and was going to post that about the Viking. I use the length to 2.5 and the width 3.0. I also decrease the tension. That way it is pulled more to the back.

[NanaPie]

Margo, I watched the show you referenced on a stitch sampler a few minutes ago. I also watched I think a Sue Nickels/Pat Holly CD long ago that showed each stitch sewn lengthwise on the back of a business card, sewn in red thread, with the stitch number written on the card. Then the business cards were inserted in to a business card holder that had plastic pages that you could insert eight or ten cards to a page. (Do they make those anymore????) At any rate, I have an old card holder and the business cards I had leftover from when I retired a few years ago - I think I'll give that a whirl. I hadn't thought of it again until I looked at the show you mentioned. Thanks for sending me in that direction!

[rosamondac]

Beverly, I took a 3 day class last fall from Pat Holly. She does use the business card sleeves to house her stitch library. However, she stitches on Heavy Weight Stabilizer or VERY stiff muslin (not directly on the business card). She then trims the fabric to about 1 1/2 x 2 1/2 and uses double sided tape to attach the fabric/stabilizer to a solid piece of card stock which has been trimmed to the size of a business card. After her class, I did a stitch bible for my Bernina 780. I recently upgraded my 780 to the 880 and am in the process of restitching all of my stitches. I used muslin for my 780 bible. I'm using Heavy Weight Stabilizer this time and I must say, it is much better. Takes awhile to do this but it is so worth it!

Rosamond