HooooBoy, you ought to see this trick. My handquilting is dismal. Just is. I wanted to do a few Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks to put on a tote. Not, mind you, the great Baltimore Album of all times, just a simple little tote. Decided I'd give Bernina's idea of pseudo hand quilting a serious try. Couldn't find guidance in my hefty stack of Bernina books. After a while I found it listed under Hand quilting. Fine. At least I found it. You put invisible thread on the upper threading and a heavy thread on the bobbin. After only a little diddling with tension, you can produce the look of hand-quilting. The stitch is 44 on the 440, 62 on the 155 and I see one on the Viking Sapphire visiting here. 'As long as' I had the invisible thread out, I decided I'd see if I could join the blocks by machine. I can lay two edges face-to-face and attach them to each other with a really skinny zig-zag. That's slow-going but neat and heaps faster than by hand. Isn't it a shame that we have these lovely SMs and rarely give them a chance to show off? Polly
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