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I'm stitching out some of the omni motion stitches in our Menu G. It has got all those
sideways motion stitches. It has the letter S foot. Notice how much bigger that foot is
and I've also marked my fabric with the vanishing mid pin that comes with the Sapphire. Because
what you get going especially if you're sewing multiple rows across your fabric, you can't
use the little guides down here to help keep you straight.
What you do want to do is just kind of have something to visually keep as the machine
is moving side to side that you are keeping the foot parallel to these lines. This particular
stitch as it comes back to the center of a stitch ... I actually am stitching right down
the middle of this line and I can see that the center red line is actually coming back
and matching up with the purple drawn line. In that way, I know I'm staying on track and
not kind of getting slid off to the side. But if I need to, I can just slightly touch
it with my fingers. I also want to support my fabric. I want to hold it in front or support
it in the back and make sure none of the fabric is dragging on the front of my machine.
I want this to be a very delicate process. This isn't something that you probably want
to work on when you're working with bedding because that doesn't really ... You don't
have the option for the walking foot or the interchangeable dual feed foot to be on. That
doesn't go side to side. Really this would be the only foot you'd want to use.
Here, let's just go ahead. We'll go down to the end here. There are so many pretty stitches.
Here's lock in the cut. We'll take a look here. I was expecting this to be a little
bit wider stitch, but I'll show you how you can see how wide this stitch is going to be
before you actually stitch it out. Here's one more reason to stitch out all your decorative
stitches in your machine and you have an idea how it's going to look. Can you imagine what
this would look like with variegated thread? Of course these stitch is just kind of a single
quick stitch where these have a little bit heavier because they're a triple stitch all
the way down. So they're going to show up a little bit more distinct.
Let's go over to the machine and see how we can look at the different settings for the
stitch. When you go into the sewing information area, you're going to see that there is a
stitch with her of 21mm. If you take a look on your sewing machine right down here, you're
going to have that distance shown of 21mm. So we could see that that stich was not as
wide as, for example, one of the other ones. The very first one I stitched was number seven
and when we go to the sewing information, we see that that one is 31mm wide.
You can kind of see it's in proportion to this foot S. As we look at the foot, you can
see how much bigger that stitch is in relationship to this foot. I've noticed that most of those
are pretty proportional to the foot. As you change that, you can see the foot either shrinks
or gets bigger based on the snowman. Those are going to be really big. Let's see what
number they show up, 28mm wide. How fun would that be to stitch some snowman on your next
winter scene that you're making.
Take a look once again, I highly recommend that you stitch out all these decorative stitches
because they're going to look so much prettier sewing out and you'll know and be inspired
by what to use them on.