decorative stiches - need advice
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decorative stiches - need advice
OK, so I want to do some decorative stitching on a quilt that has cotton sandwiched with minky. I tried the stitches on a scrap piece of cotton on minky; didn't work too well. Then I put typing paper underneath and it worked fine, so I tried water soluble tear away stabilizer and that worked fine too. But I've tried 3 times on the actual quilt with stabilizer and paper, and it doesn't sew it right. Why would that be? It scrunches up the design. I'm reluctant to try again, because I don't want to ruin the quilt top, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
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That's what's so weird, they are the same--I just put a piece of the same cotton along the edge of the minky backing. And it's not dragging. I just don't know what it could be.
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I tried quilting with a minkee back one time and had to give up and tie the quilt. I had a terrible time with it. But if it's being used as batting I don't understand why it would be so much trouble.
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So, I got it working, but it wasn't easy. First I put on the monogramming foot instead of the walking foot; not sure that helped at all. Then I saw that I needed to really encourage it to move forward during the forward part of the stitching, and stay in place when it was sewing in place--I slowed down to the lowest speed possible and counted out the forward moving stitches as I pushed slightly, and counted out the in-place stitches as it stitched in place. Whew!
I don't understand why the feeding didn't work right even with a stabilizer, but it's done, and I'm happy now.
I don't understand why the feeding didn't work right even with a stabilizer, but it's done, and I'm happy now.
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possibly the stabilizer is what is dragging (sticking to the bed of the machine)
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