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Step 2Decorate your fabric
We're starting with a blank canvas. Using the sewing machine's stitches, we're creating the design on the fabric.
This step was a lot of fun for my daughter. To make the designs, she got to sew wherever she wanted on the fabric using all sorts of crazy patterns. She got to practice starting and stopping using the foot pedal without having to worry about keeping a straight line or minding the seams allowance. I think it was actually the first time she had fun with the machine and didn't get frustrated.
We used free-motion quilting, which means that we lowered the machine's feed dogs so that they weren't feeding the fabric forward and regulating the stitch. With free motion quilting, the sewer's hands control the movement of the fabric entirely. If your machine can't lower the feed dogs, you can still do this project--your design will just have more zig zags and fewer swirls.
In short:
Thread the machine with colorful thread.
Stitch all over your interfacing so the thread makes cool designs.
This step was a lot of fun for my daughter. To make the designs, she got to sew wherever she wanted on the fabric using all sorts of crazy patterns. She got to practice starting and stopping using the foot pedal without having to worry about keeping a straight line or minding the seams allowance. I think it was actually the first time she had fun with the machine and didn't get frustrated.
We used free-motion quilting, which means that we lowered the machine's feed dogs so that they weren't feeding the fabric forward and regulating the stitch. With free motion quilting, the sewer's hands control the movement of the fabric entirely. If your machine can't lower the feed dogs, you can still do this project--your design will just have more zig zags and fewer swirls.
In short:
Thread the machine with colorful thread.
Stitch all over your interfacing so the thread makes cool designs.
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