I was getting this quilt ready to wrap up and give to its 16-month old recipient (which, in my house, amounts to making sure there's no cat hair left on it) when I stepped back, took a good look, and decided there wasn't enough quilting on it. I loved the look of the Minkee sashing without any stitching through it, but let's face it, it's going to a toddler and needs to be relatively indestructible.
So it was back to the machine...and I made a fun discovery: if you hold down the reverse button long enough on my machine (Bernina 440QE), it stays in reverse! I was doing a little funky straight-line pattern in the white blocks, and this eliminated having to pull the bulk of the quilt through the arm of the machine over and over again. Of course, I discovered it by accident and had to rip out the stitching that went in the wrong direction, but hey -- better late than never!
Did they teach that in Mastery Classes? I'm sure I would have remembered...
Anyway, I finished the last stitching this morning before I left for work, will de-hair once again tonight, and deliver it later this week to little Simona so she can put it to good use! Yay! Another project one out the door!
6 comments:
It keeps going backwards if you hold the button long enough??? Wow! I'm going to have to try that with my Janome and see if it works there. What a cool feature!
I accidentally held the button down for more than 10 seconds, and the machine beeped. I didn't think anything of it...until I wanted to go forward, and noticed the reverse arrow was still on the display. Way cool!
Wonder if this works with the older Berninas? I just bought a used 1130S (well, duh, what else would a 20-yr-old machine be?) a couple of months ago and am still learning about it.
BTW, saw the mention of you on Jacquie's blog, so came on over. Blame her!
Jacquie sent me. Love your sense of humor...I've bookmarked you as a favorite so I can check back often.
So excited to have found your blog (via Jacquie)! Your quilts are wonderful!
No they don't teach that in the master classes! Wonderful to know. Thanks! :-)
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