"Stitch in the Ditch" is a easy way of quilting, and you get to keep your feed dogs up! See how a foot can make a difference. Bernina 790 www.bernina.com/en-CA/Product...
I love watching your videos. You’re prepared and get right to the project! No camera messing, looking for items, or unnecessary chatting. You have a pleasant voice, give great explanations, and stay on point. 😊 THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I look for your videos when I need help, but I love all your great ideas and information!👍🏻
Very clear video thank you. I was going throw a sewing drawer looking for my stitch in the ditch foot just yesterday and came across the box my walking foot came in and wondered why I had kept the box. I’m now thinking perhaps there is another foot in it. I’m excited to go and have a look now, and then having a trial run. Thank you so much from a beginner quilter. ❤
I used to sew when my kids were small . My MIL SHOWED me this stitch.( it was a like different than this) Your video shows it so clearly. 47 years later!!!!. Thanks so much!!
Struggled with this stitch, on the verge of giving in when I found your video. Thank you so much Laura, had it mastered in minutes, am now a fan! Will be watching you from now on, thanks again, and greetings from Bonnie Scotland!
Thank you for this very detailed and clear explanation! Right before watching your video, I watched a different one on stitching in the ditch that left me with lots of questions. Your video answered them all.
Thank you for the simple and very comprehensive explanation of the ditch, how to manage changes of side of ditch and where to sew first - a really super video.
Excellent information? I love how you get right to the point and start teaching. I always learn something I didn't know and I was shocked to see that you could interchange feet with the walking foot. Yay to that. I will have to look in my foot collection to see if I have something similar. Thanks Laura! You're the best.
This is the clearest explanation of stitch in the ditch, complete with visual closeups I have ever seen, and I have many quilting books. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial! This is sure to help all quilters, new and experienced.
Great explanation and demo. I wish I had seen this 4 years ago I did not think about the seams making the ditches now I know why my ditch stitches have never looked good. THANK YOU!!!
I so appreciate your videos, Laura. You explain so much in an easy to understand way - even for beginners like me. I have learnt tons just from watching you, even on topics, like dressmaking, that don't interest me just now. Thank you so much, and keep the great vids coming...you are such an inspiration...Tracy
Theresa Morgan -I always avoided it too because I’m terrible at staying on a straight line and it looked messy. Since I tried it with the #5 foot it made all the difference in the world!
I need to stitch in the ditch a paper pieced block and it really hard for me to tell the hill and the valley........your pink and grey fabric is super adorbs!
Now I understand the principle, you explained this very well. Unfortunately I work on a vintage machine and I can’t get modern feet which fit it. Usually it’s great but I’ve just started to quilt. I’ve never stitched in the ditch and I have a limited range of feet. Any suggestions?
Thanks for this tutorial. It is very informative. I have done a lot of stitch in the ditch, and you have helped make me more accurate. Also, love the baby quilt you were working on. Any chance of getting the pattern and fabric information on it? Love your videos. Thanks!
Laura, I have always sent my quilt tops to get quilted, but it is getting rather expensive and I would like to be able to quilt smaller items myself. I noticed you uses pins for this baby quilt but what sizes and brand of safety pins do you recommend when having to pin baste for larger items? I do have some arthritis in my hands and wondered if you ever used a pin fastener or is it not a real useful tool? Thank you for all of your wonderful tutorials. You have a great way of communicating process. Thanks "sew" very much:) Pam
Hi Laura - what if my seams are ironed "open" and not pushed to one side? how do I do this? Also should we be doing this with the backing on? Love that you have a bernina I've learnt so much about my walking foot!
Laura, Thank you for all of your wonderful tutorials. You have a great way of communicating process. I have always sent my quilt tops to get quilted, but it is getting rather expensive and I would like to be able to quilt smaller items myself. I noticed you uses pins for this baby quilt but what sizes and brand of safety pins do you recommend when having to pin baste for larger items? I do have some arthritis in my hands and wondered if you ever used a pin fastener or is it not a real useful tool? Thanks "sew" very much:) Pam
I do love to spray baste my quilts or use safety pins. I did use straight pins for this but I did get pocked a lot. And what do you mean a pin fastener!
Hello Laura, Thank you very much for your return message. I am asking what is the best brand of safety pins to purchase, for pin basting a quilt. I have seen a safety pin fastener that is supposed to make it easier on your hands to close the safety pins but not sure if it is one of the "can't live without items" I have not purchased these items but I am in the process of gathering things that will be need, to start quilting smaller quilts. Thank you for the tutorials you share with us. RU-vid is wonderful! Pamela Granger
I do use a good safety pin like this amzn.to/2kIhIsF it has a curve on it, which makes it easier to use. I do also have that tool amzn.to/2sDBlFN It is easier on the hands. You can also use a spoon! Try the spoon and see if makes a difference :) hope this helps!
Thank you for your help. This was the 1st time I was going to try "Stitch in the Ditch". My problem is, I already I ironed & lightly starched the back side of my rows open! I watched how to do this long time ago, to help the fabric lay flat. It looked like I shouldn't have ironed them open, to make a hill, on one side of the ditch. I'm going to hate ironing them back to one side. Can I still try "stitch in the ditch" with leaving them ironed open ? Or should I just Ditch it, & do it on the next quilt I make?
Never mind I read the comments from a year ago, where you said, "not to sew in the center because it will weaken the stitch. Instead sew 1/4 inch over, to sew on 2nd layer of fabric underneath. I saw that commented on twice, so I think that's right. If that's not right let me know.
