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How would you use this guide? Is it possible to use the curved piece as the guide and follow it? I'm repeating straight stitch quilting and I will have to mark it all with tape or chalk to create the look I'm wanting. I thought the seam guide would be perfect for it. If anyone has suggestions, I'm certainly open to them. I know I'll have to chalk out the stencil, but I was saving that for the outer border. I would rather not SITD a majority of it. I've designed different quilting motifs for each of these little runners I'm making. Without some type of guide, the free hand stuff is about to get much more daunting.
My 301
What is your opinion of the 301? Pros, Cons? I just purchased one, it's on the way, and I'm not sure that I should have purchased it.
I've never seen one in operation, just read about them. Hopefully, it will have been a good buy ($163) It looks to be in nice condition. Anyway, I suppose I'm just looking for a little affirmation .
I've never seen one in operation, just read about them. Hopefully, it will have been a good buy ($163) It looks to be in nice condition. Anyway, I suppose I'm just looking for a little affirmation .
How would you use this guide? Is it possible to use the curved piece as the guide and follow it? I'm repeating straight stitch quilting and I will have to mark it all with tape or chalk to create the look I'm wanting. I thought the seam guide would be perfect for it. If anyone has suggestions, I'm certainly open to them. I know I'll have to chalk out the stencil, but I was saving that for the outer border. I would rather not SITD a majority of it. I've designed different quilting motifs for each of these little runners I'm making. Without some type of guide, the free hand stuff is about to get much more daunting.
Edit: Presser bar maybe. Where you attach it to the machine under the presser foot screw.
Last edited by melinda1962; 11-16-2011 at 09:05 PM. Reason: Second thought...
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What is your opinion of the 301? Pros, Cons? I just purchased one, it's on the way, and I'm not sure that I should have purchased it.
I've never seen one in operation, just read about them. Hopefully, it will have been a good buy ($163) It looks to be in nice condition. Anyway, I suppose I'm just looking for a little affirmation .
I've never seen one in operation, just read about them. Hopefully, it will have been a good buy ($163) It looks to be in nice condition. Anyway, I suppose I'm just looking for a little affirmation .
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What is your opinion of the 301? Pros, Cons? I just purchased one, it's on the way, and I'm not sure that I should have purchased it.
I've never seen one in operation, just read about them. Hopefully, it will have been a good buy ($163) It looks to be in nice condition. Anyway, I suppose I'm just looking for a little affirmation .
I've never seen one in operation, just read about them. Hopefully, it will have been a good buy ($163) It looks to be in nice condition. Anyway, I suppose I'm just looking for a little affirmation .
Yeehaa! I finally caught up. Had surgery 2 weeks ago and ended up wwaaaayy behind. What a great read it has been.
AARRRGGG!!! I am so frustrated. I put my machine away for the day and have so much work left to do. I am quilting all my Christmas presents on the 66 this year so I can get acquainted with her. I'm putting pics in here too. I want to use the stitch guide thing to follow a seam so I can quilt between two seams. I have no idea if that explanation makes sense. So I wrestled with this darn guide for 25 minutes before I FINALLY figured a way to get it on with the thumb screw. So I get the darn thing on and then the needle won't go down because the thing that holds the needle in keeps hitting the seam guide. How do I get this darn thing on? All that just to avoid marking the middle of the strips on the log cabin! All I want to do is follow the seam!
HELP!
This is what the seam guide looks like before I tried to wrestle it on the machine:
This is what it looked like when I FINALLY got it on.
And this one has the seam guide on, and my finger is next to the thing that holds the needle in. It keeps hitting the guide and it won't let the needle go down into the fabric to make the stitch. I'm sure it's operator error, I just cannot get it figured out.
HELP!
This is what the seam guide looks like before I tried to wrestle it on the machine:
This is what it looked like when I FINALLY got it on.
And this one has the seam guide on, and my finger is next to the thing that holds the needle in. It keeps hitting the guide and it won't let the needle go down into the fabric to make the stitch. I'm sure it's operator error, I just cannot get it figured out.
Did you google Singer vintage quilting guides? I thought the quilting guide for the 66 also fits the FWs.
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Did someone specifically tell you this guide works with your machine? It doesn't look compatible with it... Not every modern foot and attachment will work on vintage machines.
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