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Hiding my Easter eggs

This morning I was stitching HSTs. You know, the easy way where you put two squares right sides together and stitch diagonally from corner to corner. Things didn't go well. I pressed the first one, carefully trimmed the excess including layering the seam allowance - one 1/4 " and one about 3/8" so there wouldn't be a bulky ridge. Neat, huh? wrong. What I cut away was one of the squares. All I had left was one square with a strange looking fuzzy strip across the diagonal. Next. My beloved Bernina who has been with me for millions of stitches was off her feed, slipped and slid and bogged. I changed her needle in case a bent or blunt one was poking the fabric down in the feeddogs. I took her apart and removed all the gopher guts. I oiled her. I put a teensy bead of silicone on a thread and made the tensions all nice and happy. No good. Aha. The culprit. Somehow, I put on the teflon-bottomed foot. It's good for sewing contrary stuff such as vinyl that wants to stick. It is No Good for stitching quilting cotton. It won't grab. It won't feed. I now have the happiest, cleanest Bernina in the country and the right straight stitch foot. Planning an Easter egg hunt? Call me to hide the eggs. I'll be really good at it . . . unless, of course it's raining and I have to hide them inside and you want me to remember where I hid them. Never mind. Polly

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Polly Esther
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Polly, I just love your sense of humor.

Speaking of presser feet, if your Bernina uses the cone-type presser feet, have you seen the Free Motion Couching Foot?

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Oh my stars and garters. That looks like FUN.

The best way to hide anything from me is to put it in plain sight. :-D

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blackrosequilts

Ahhhh, yes. It's on my 'to do' list. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to trim a HST. Polly

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Polly Esther

Polly I think Katrina affected our brains. I tried to do a zig-zag and broke two needles before I realized I had a straight stitch foot on. Remember that little square ruler you bought, try that. The diagonal line works wonders as a guide line when cutting HQT.

Kate T. South Mississippi

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Kate T.

I do cut and stitch just fine, Kate. It's the trimming that my Katrina brain went zaggy on. All I needed to do was pay attention. Yes, sure. With what? We have to drive down to Pascagoula directly on the Gulf Coast beach sometime this week to get our tax stuff. Looking at our old hometown is just like being hit in the face with a shovel. It does indeed affect our brains. Polly

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Polly Esther

You could use lace, piping, a few buttons, beads, or embroidery stitches.

Butterfly

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Butterfly

Howdy! Polly and KateT--hugs to both of you.

Ragm> I do cut and stitch just fine, Kate. It's the trimming that my Katrina

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Sandy Ellison

'groan'. I didn't even see that coming. Polly

"Butterfly" wrote> You could use lace, piping, a few buttons, beads, or embroidery stitches.

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Polly Esther

touche

Butterfly (you know what I mean : )

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TerriLee in WA

I don't know what kind of feet the 930 and the 830 take. The free motion couching foot will go on the 200, so it will go on machines that take the cone-type feet. I did look around to see if they have that foot for their other machines that take different feet, but I didn't find it.

I don't know what the experts call the type of foot that the Artista line takes. The shank of the foot fits onto a cone-shaped dealie on the machine. It's a great system -- I can change feet one-handed in about 5 seconds, including the time it takes to grab the next foot and get it on. Super easy.

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blackrosequilts

Terri, go look around at nancysnotions.com and see what you can learn. If you can't find out from their online catalog, perhaps you can email them to see if / which adaptor will fit the 930 or 830. My Nancy's sale catalog has the Bernina Shank Adaptor for $ 12.98 and it says for Bernina 1530 and older . . . don't know what they might mean by 'older'. While you're playing there, you'll see lots of special feet - ought to be many more than you'll ever need for crazy quilt embellishments. Most of these feet are heaps of fun and easy to use. OTOH I don't see much advantage to the bias binder foot and the roller foot never did impress me either. Polly

"TerriLee in WA" asked > Oh my! That does look like fun. Crazy quilt embellishments, anyone? I

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Polly Esther

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Susan Laity Price

Susan, that sounds like a great plan. Thank you. Ummmmmm. Polly

"Susan Laity Price" asked > Why deal with all of

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Polly Esther

I read this as "sit on the table and eat chocolate." Works for me!

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frood

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