Need a Viking / Bernina translation

I do it pretty much the same way...

On my Lily I use either the standard ZZ presser foot A or Teflon foot H, set the machine to satin stitch with a length of .4 and a width of 3. Keep the fabtic taut. I slide the fabric past the innermost edge of the right side of the presser foot, and on fine things like chiffon, the edge curls under gently like a rolled hem on a serger. It's trickier on curves, but then so are most things...

To start with I tend to pin a little bit of waste fabric to the beginning of the roll, to give me something to hang on to and to give the presser foot something to work with.

I must admit that these days I usually use the serger rolled hem, so I'm a bit out of practice! But I had a bit of chiffon standing by, and yes, having just tried it, this works nicely. Looks better using a size 70 needle and some embroidery thread in the needle and 120's poly (serger thread: it's finer than standard poly thread) in the bobbin.

I'll try taking some pics and posting them somewhere...

Have you tried using fine embroidery thread in both the needle and the bobbin? That might be nice if the "wrong side" edge is likely to show, for instance on ruffles, etc.

Beverly

Try the J foot (joining foot) and satin stitch, width 3.0, which just gets the needle over the middle bar. Back the fabric about 1 thread width to the left of the bar. The clear B joining foot might be another choice.

Or an odd foot I can't identify, but is marked 412 7842. The back has the embroidery type sole, the left toe is about twice as wide as the right, and curved from left to right; there's a red mark on the centerline of the toe. I believe it's the "left edge topstitch foot". That one did fine with 0.5 length, 1.5 width.

Play with the foot pressure -- that seemed to help a lot. I suspect a little starch would improve things, too.

I did get better results on a folded edge -- if it got too narrow on the fabric I was using (a batiste-like shirting destined to be summer nightgowns), the stitching wanted to fray off.

On the Juki, I used the I foot, automatic tension, default satin stitch length and width (2.6/0.4) and got nice results.

This experiment was handicapped by the fact that I was using standard Mara 100 polyester sewing thread from Gutermann and the only #10 needle I could find had seen better days. But it seemed to work fine.

Oh my goodness, thank you Kate, Beverly and Kay. I just knew a Viking could do anything including dancing backwards in high heels with Fred Astaire. I could probably mend a tear in a tent stake sack with a Viking but my brain is wired "Bernina" and all of the trickier bits with Viking are just not in my head. I do appreciate your time and sharing. Thank you so much. Polly