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hmo

winniepooh wrote: »

What's the easiest pattern to do

it doesnt matter make up some sandwiches of fabric and batting about at least 12x12 and practice on those, i tend to do wavy lines and circles or ovals and they dont have to be perfect. just pretend you are doodling but with a needle

like this

rufusdog52

Your quilting is beautiful HMO. Mine just goes all loopy underneath. I have changed the tension, looks fine when going forwards but as soon as I move the fabric backwards to do a circle or loop the underneath gets tangled up and looks a right mess.

hmo

rufusdog52 wrote: »

I still cant do free motion quilting, made a right bodge of my latest quilt. Seems my machine doesnt like the backwards movement meaning I would just have to do straight stitching or find a pattern I can go forwards on all the time

i dont understand what you mean you dont go backwards do you.

your machine sews one way you just move the fabric and leave the needle in the down position and pivet your work if you want to move to a new section.

make some 12x12 sandwiches and have a practice set your machine to straight stitch and medium speed to fast speed and move the fabric, when i was practicing at first i used a fabric pen and drew wavy lines with circles in and followed them just to get a feel for speed then just went for it.

winniepooh

You make it sound so easy hmo. I'll have another go at it tomorrow. Ive got quite a bit of wadding I have a feeling im going to need it

winniepooh

Marking out a pattern to start with sounds like a good idea

rufusdog52

Yes was just going to say she makes it sound easy lol, must be the way I am doing it. When I watched someone do it on Youtube I thought when they did a circle they just had one hand either side of needle and moved their hands in a circle if you get me, rather than spinning the fabric round. I will have to watch some other ones. I googled after what was going wrong and someone had put that some machines dont like the backwards movement when doing a circle so I presumed this was what I was doing

rufusdog52

If you look at this video, she is moving the fabric backwards and forwards to get it to do the hearts and loops. This is when mine plays up, it doesnt like it when I push the fabric backwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYPYmL49sE0

craftycrafty

Morning all

Hope your all well and your stitching projects are going well. Not done any sewing for a couple of weeks, have projects in mind, hope to start over the weekend.

Am going back to work a couple of days a week from Sunday so a bit less crafting time

Welcome to all the newbies, happy sewing.

Lovely completed works.

Mumto2monkeys well done on your cushion and bag

HMO the quilt is beautiful.

Sorry forgot who stitched the hearts they are lovely, I want to have a try at them.

Thank you also for the fabric links must have a look at them.

Happy stitching and take care

winniepooh

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rufusdog52 wrote: »

If you look at this video, she is moving the fabric backwards and forwards to get it to do the hearts and loops. This is when mine plays up, it doesnt like it when I push the fabric backwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYPYmL49sE0

Thats interesting. I've never given it a thought to go backwards. Im might try it. Will let you know how I get on. It would certainly make it easier

rufusdog52

winniepooh wrote: »

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Thats interesting. I've never given it a thought to go backwards. Im might try it. Will let you know how I get on. It would certainly make it easier

They make it look easy too Winnie. Good luck, would be interested in seeing how you do. I have tried it on two different machines and the same thing happens on both. May be it is just me lol xx