This is the technique I use for most of the scrap quilts I make and I donate them to charity quilts. I have the same machine as Christa and I have the 20 D foot and it really is a quick technique, much faster than walking foot quilting.
That is the most helpful quilting tutorial! I have a Babylock Jazz II with a large harp space and hope to have the same results as you. THANK YOU Christa. ❤
I always had a hard time using a walking foot. I left the presser foot setting as it was, as the machine manual instructed. Puckers! I watched one of your videos and you said to turn the presser foot pressure down. Since then, I've been whipping through quilts like crazy, using the wavy line, or the machine wavy zigzag or serpentine stitch. Also cross hatching using either straight or wavy lines. You have made a big difference for me! Thank you!
Thanks, Christa, for this video. Your method for organic wavy lines makes it so much easier. I love quilting wavy lines but was starting with my lines closer together. This makes so much more sense.
You'll love it. You ca get the PDF pattern here if you haven't purchased it yet: www.etsy.com/listing/1338252826/churn-dash-slide-digital-quilt-pattern?
Christa, I'm nervous about machine quilting. The few (small) pieces I've tried are so so. BUT I learned something from you today: Decreasing the top tension to 3.25; AND decreasing the pressure foot tension to 0. Never thought of that. I'm going to try that out with some straight line quilting I want to do. And a question. When you quilt down one line, do you go back to the top (where you started the last line), and quilt down again? Or do you turn the whole quilt and go back towards where you started the last line? I hope this makes sense.
Thanks for watching! You can do either. I prefer to start on one side and then work my way across the quilt in one direction. The I rotate when the quilt gets too bulky and go back the other direction. It's much easier for me to manage the bulk that way.
I specifically avoid trying to make my lines evenly spaced. But if you want them evenly spaced, then you can mark even intervals across your quilts and stitch on top of the lines.
