Use Your Sewing Machine Decorative Stitches! Swatch and Stitch with Leah Day
It's time to start using your home sewing machine's built-in decorative stitches! In this video, Leah Day shows you how to use the Decorative Stitch Swatcher Template to create swatches of your designs for any sewing or quilting project.
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Leah Day
Leah Day is an online quilting teacher and founded LeahDay.com in 2009. She teaches quilting online via free YouTube videos and is also a dealer for Grace longarm machines and frames. Her mission is to empower and encourage quilters of all skill levels learn to make beautiful quilts.
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Chapters
- 0:00New Template! The Decorative Stitch Swatcher
- 0:25Inspiration for this invention
- 0:55Why I've struggled to use decorative stitches
- 1:33Swatch any fabric or quilt combination to see what your decorative stitches look like
- 2:14How to use the Decorative Stitch Swatcher
- 2:42Challenge yourself to try out your machine's alphabet!
- 3:11Will you need stabilizer? Testing different fabrics
- 4:06Record the stitch and settings on the swatch
- 4:42How to swatch a quilt sandwich
- 5:27My t-shirt baby quilt swatches
- 6:36Which fabric marking pen is best for swatching?
- 8:17Find this new template at LeahDay.com/Swatch
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What is covered in Use Your Sewing Machine Decorative Stitches! Swatch and Stitch with Leah Day?
It's time to start using your home sewing machine's built-in decorative stitches! In this video, Leah Day shows you how to use the Decorative Stitch Swatcher Template to create swatches of your designs for any sewing or quilting project.
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The tutorial video is 00:08:35.
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