I don’t know about you but I tend to stick to what I am familiar with. I have confess to owning my sewing machine for nearly a year now and only using two stitches, straight and zigzag!!!
A while back I saw this idea of creating a stitch guide for your machine, and I have been meaning to make one for myself ever since!
The idea is create a guide numbering the width and depth of each stitch on your sampler. This creates a handy guide to refer back to whenever you are sewing a project.
Unfortunately I became distracted by the stitches, and realised that I had not set about the project in a sufficiently organised way to record this level of detail – I had only thought about stitches where you vary the length, and not those where it is possible to vary width and length creating many more variances!!
I am delighted to have discovered stitches which I will use, now I know how they stitch:)
Having had a hectic week I am looking forward to a slightly more relaxed week:) The eagle eyed will have noticed that I didn’t quite make my self imposed blogging every day for seven days – it just didn’t happen the day I worked 8 hours and then went out in the evening!!
Trusting you have had a creative week I am off to see what other people have been up to over at Handmade Harbour.
Vicky
Stephen @ Soy of the North
Friday 27th of September 2013
This is a good idea. When I got my sewing machine, I went through all the stitches and made a list of the ideal settings for each of them, but I didn't actually make anything like your guide which would have been a better idea.
CatkinJane
Thursday 26th of September 2013
I'm another that rarely uses the stitch options on the machine Having a play with the others is now on my to do list!
Lucy Blossom
Monday 23rd of September 2013
Such a good idea, I can see lots of us will be finding some fabric to make a machine sampler with! I love the stitch that is 3rd in from the left, its a great decorative stitch.
Simmi
Monday 23rd of September 2013
Brilliant idea! And looking through the comments it would seem that most of us are the same - I too only use straight and zigzag... am a total wuss when it comes to trying new things on the machine - mainly because I always want to try them on the custom order that I'm working on, rather than take the time to have a play! Simmi xx
Louise @ Elsie May and Bertha
Monday 23rd of September 2013
This is such a clever idea isn't it? I've started to do this for embroidery stitches, but I hadn't thought of doing the same for machine stitches.