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It can definitely be done! You can use the BERNINA Stitch Regulator to help keep your stitches even.
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thread, but you can definitely do these on a domestic machine or on the BERNINA Q 20 as well. I did these samples on my beautiful BERNINA Longarm machine Q 24 using Aurifil 50 wt. Sewing Machine block with an open swirl backgroundĭress Block with a swirl/feather background Scissors block with a swirl and waves background
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I used quite a few variations of swirls in this one. I recently debuted my new block-of-the-month pattern, Sewing Room Sampler featuring my Sewing Room line for Benartex, at BERNINA University. Swirls look especially great when contrasted with other, more uniform types of quilting, like circles and crosshatching. I echoed the inner swirls and filled in the center with pebbles. I used the open swirl pattern on my Twinkle quilt, featuring my Sparkle collection for Benartex. I know…I don’t like it either, but we really need to stop and then move our hands. In the case of swirls stop when you get right into a swirl’s center, before you start heading out, or stop once you have completed a swirl before moving onto the next one.Īnd I know we’ve all tried it (myself more times than I’d care to admit) but it doesn’t hurt to remind ourselves that, while we think we are smooth enough to reposition our hands WHILE we are quilting (as opposed to stopping before repositioning), SADLY, most of us are not. You want to stop where there is a natural corner to the design, so that when you start again little differences in direction are not noticeable. When stitching swirls (or any motifs, for that matter) think about where you need to stop or start when repositioning hands (or feet in the base of long arms).