Learn How to Stitch in the Ditch - Free Quilting Tutorial
A brief explanation of the quilting term "stitch in the ditch" from Jenny. If you'd like to get started on quilting and need supplies, come on over and check us out at or take a look at our awesome deals every day at.
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Jenny Doan
Jenny Doan is an American quilter, author, and YouTube personality. Jenny started Missouri Star Quilt Company in 2008 and today it is the largest quilting supply vendor in the United States.
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A brief explanation of the quilting term "stitch in the ditch" from Jenny. If you'd like to get started on quilting and need supplies, come on over and check us out at or take a look at our awesome deals every day at.
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Video Transcript
When you put two pieces of fabric together and you bring them over to your machine, stitching in the ditch means stitching right where those two fabrics meet. So, we’re going to go over to the sewing machine and I’m going to show you how to do that right now.
OK, so the most important tool for stitching in the ditch are your glasses! So, you can see it carefully. For those of you who don’t need them, be thankful! Anyway, here we’re going to go and we’re going to put our needle right down here in-between these two fabrics. You probably want to press these apart, and then we’re just going to slowly go right in that ditch and you just
have to really carefully go along.
OK, so here you see we’ve sewn along here in the ditch, and you can see that on the back of this plain fabric. Easier to see on the plain than the front, and that my friends is “stitching in the ditch” Thanks from the Missouri Star Quilt
Company.
