Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Tues Tutorial Tip~ Making Sewing Machine Reference Charts

When you have to stop a project to decide on a special stitch and it's settings,
 you might as well take a few more minutes 
to grab scraps of fabric to
 make a Reference Chart. 
(I haven't had time to stop and make one
 for ALL the stitches
like I did for my other machines. 
Links below)
Usually scraps from the project
 are used so stitches come out exactly
 as they will be on the project. 
Most future projects
 will probably be of the same types of fabric: cotton or cotton blends,
and the same type of thread.
You might consider making the samples
 about the size of a large book page,
 so they can be put together 
and have an easy book to flip through. 
Or, maybe you just want to pile them
 in one stack on your nearby shelf?
 
On this part of the sample above,
 the name of the quilt the stitch was used is referred. 
This was the piece that started this sample.
 Then other variations were added for possible future use.
Thus becoming a "Reference Chart" for my Emmie 7 machine.

The note of App is the location on the machine for the stitch.

Hope this tip saves you a bit of time in the future.
 
Here are other Samplers for other machines
referred to by their given name:
 

*Sorry, I had to take timeout for a week
to have COVID.  Geesh, too busy for timeouts.
However, blessed not near as bad and hard as Delta 2 years ago
when it took Mr. G's life.
Still miss him so.



3 comments:

  1. Thats a great idea to have a chart like that! So sorry for your TIme out - and thank goodness it wasn't as rough!!

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  2. So sorry that you've had the dreaded covid. Please take care of you.
    Thank you for the suggestion re making a booklet of stitch samples. Now that I have my new Janome there are tons more stitches available and making a sampler will be helpful.

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