question about SITD
#13
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Definitely not a SID expert, but find that any sewing machine quilting (don't have a long arm :-< ) is made 100% easier/better by using my Machinger gloves. Plus, they save hand fatigue!
Until you get a SID foot, might try a narrow zipper foot - the kind that rides on the outside of the zipper - that will give you good visibity for your seam and let the foot ride to one side of your seam. Good luck, have fun!
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Until you get a SID foot, might try a narrow zipper foot - the kind that rides on the outside of the zipper - that will give you good visibity for your seam and let the foot ride to one side of your seam. Good luck, have fun!
Love this forum!!
#14
Originally Posted by flybreit
Until you get a SID foot, might try a narrow zipper foot - the kind that rides on the outside of the zipper - that will give you good visibity for your seam and let the foot ride to one side of your seam. Good luck, have fun!
Love this forum!!
Love this forum!!
#15
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Location: Hartsburg, Mo
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Learned a lot (but not enough!) from my grandmother whose only machine ever was a treadle and my mother who tailored beautiful garments on nothing but a Featherweight.
Both of their machines live in my sewing room with hopes their skills will pass to me. Maybe someday!
That zipper foot idea works really well when using SID to finish a machine binding.
Both of their machines live in my sewing room with hopes their skills will pass to me. Maybe someday!
That zipper foot idea works really well when using SID to finish a machine binding.
#16
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: England
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Originally Posted by flybreit
Definitely not a SID expert, but find that any sewing machine quilting (don't have a long arm :-< ) is made 100% easier/better by using my Machinger gloves. Plus, they save hand fatigue!
Until you get a SID foot, might try a narrow zipper foot - the kind that rides on the outside of the zipper - that will give you good visibity for your seam and let the foot ride to one side of your seam. Good luck, have fun!
Love this forum!!
Until you get a SID foot, might try a narrow zipper foot - the kind that rides on the outside of the zipper - that will give you good visibity for your seam and let the foot ride to one side of your seam. Good luck, have fun!
Love this forum!!
Thank you
#17
Originally Posted by cjomomma
I have seen message board members talk about SITD. Can anyone explain this to me. My Grandmother used to do this but she liked to keep her secrets secrets. She took everything to the grave with her. No food recipes, No quilting patterns not a thing. Not even when I would ask her to show me something. She would just show up at my home with it already done.
I would appreciate any help with this.
I would appreciate any help with this.
#19
I use my open toe embroidery foot on my Pfaff 2030, and try to stay on the "low side" of the seam, that is not the side with the seam allowance. Like anything else, practice, practice! I'm actually pretty good at it now, after about 10 years of practice...lol. I also do alot of quilting on the diagonal with blue painters tape, you stitch along the side, but not on the tape...takes tweesers to remove stitched on tape.
Sue
Sue
#20
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Thank You everyone for the great advice. It is amazing the amount of knowledge that can be found on these threads. I have learned a lot even before I joined, before I just to read the comments.
Thanks again.
Carrie
Thanks again.
Carrie
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