I'm so excited !
For a while now, I've wanted to machine-quilt on my cabinet-model Singer machine but would only attempt it with a walking foot.....no free-motion. I didn't think that I had a darning foot to fit it, and once I figured out that the foot from my White machine (which I usually use to meander-quilt) fits this one, I couldn't remember what the other problem was. Now I've remembered.......like her 'mother', this machine tends to 'run on' a bit. In machine-free-motion-quilting, that can be a problem, needing to stop at a certain point, and the machine going on for another 6-10 stitches after you let up off the pedal !
But, tonight
I practiced, per instruction, and I'm learning....
(a) to slow down -- no small feat since this machine has a knee pedal, and I'm very excitable while doing this ,
and
(b) to anticipate my stopping point, so that I can coast down to it.
Now, I still don't know if it will be controllable on something like pebbles, but, hey.....that's why I'm doing all this, right.........to see what we CAN DO !
I'm so proud of the old girl !
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I pieced a sample bit of the quarter-square triangles for Jodie's quilt, just to see how much I needed to oversize the beginning square in order to have plenty for trimming. Here's a layout of the outside perimeter of the blocks.........love that pink !
