I have always had trouble knowing how to Machine Quilt perfect parallel lines on my home sewing machine, Bernina 1130, and my longarm as well without a great deal of marking. I discovered this great little parallel foot would help me stitch parallel lines and I want to share it with you. I learned it comes down to where to focus your eyes. This works for Traditional Sit Down Home Machine Quilters as you focus your eye where you want to go. For Longarm, focus the distance away and use a template or ruler and line it up a 1/4" away and focus your eye where you want to go. This is important if you want to stitch to a certain point, seam, thread intersection by focusing on the edge of your foot. Also, use this technique machine quilting with a longarm when you use an expanded foot that you either switch out or slip over your original foot. It really is a matter of where you are looking to guide the fabric or machine focusing on the edge of the foot or extended foot, not on the needle. Watch as I machine quilt 6 Parallel Lines without having to mark on a Tradition Home Quilting Machine, using my dear old style Bernina 1130. This technique could be used on any home sewing machine that has a Universal Adaptor Snap-on foot. Here is another video you may find helpful on my Bernina using a ruler foot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZNJqXqNxJA You will see how to switch out the regular straight stitch foot #0 from my Bernina and replace it with a Universal snap-on adaptor holding a snap-on parallel foot. Watch as I sew 6 parallel lines without marking. You will know how to set up the foot and where to focus your eye when stitching straight-lines and curves. This little parallel foot could help you use extra fancy stitches, cover more area in less time and echo quilt at various distances depending on the areas of your quilt top. Imagine a whole new look to your quilts and machine quilted projects like handbags, large ruler bags and more without a lot of marking on the floor or dining room table. There is a bar that some sewing machines come with that can use that slides behind the needle bar and sticks out about 2"-3" so you can follow an edge or seam line.. With this, the lines become wobbly for me so it is not my favorite because I do not feel it is accurate enough. To be more accurate and to absolutely make your shapes dead-on use this super little foot for decorative and regular stitches as well. Hope this helps, for even more check out the parallel foot at https://www.sallyterry.com. Join our updates at: https://www.sallyterry.com/load-it-and-go-society Our Etsy Shop 👉 https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassyStashy Sally Terry Design Blog 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com Sally Terry Design Website 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com LET'S BE FRIENDS! 💕 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SallyTerryQuilting Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thesallyterry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sally.terry.quilting #machinequiltstraightlines #berninaparallelfoot #homemachineparallelfoot Subscribe. https://bit.ly/2E9EML9 Hit the bell to be notified when I upload a video! Sally Terry's Website and Sally Terry Designs https://www.sallyterry.com

Knotting thread on your domestic home machine or longarm quilting machine is easy and does not leave a rats nest on the back. I show you how to knot your machine quilting threads at the beginning of the thread path and how to knot your threads at the end of the thread path for machine quilting without a lot of noticeable thread build up. This is a basic skill all machine quilters should use. If you are going to enter a quilt show, knots are the first thing they look for to knock down your perfect score. If you are not using this technique then you would be burying the threads. As a professional longarm quilter starting out it was at least $0.15 per buried thread. I am not sure what it is today per buried thread but I just add an additional amount to the normal amount to be charged. I do recall one show quilt I imagine we probably had 1500 starts and stops. So if you are entering a show I suggest this: 1. Decide if you are going to pay to have the threads buried. 2. Or, are you going to bury them yourself? 3. Are you in a time crunch? Be sure to allow enough time to bury the threads no matter who is doing the burying. 4. Decide if it is important enough to have your threads buried or are you going to use the technique I have demonstrated in the video. For Home Machines use one of two ways. First tap on the foot pedal once and you will have a single stitch or a half stitch then you would tape the pedal twice for one stitch. Or use the handwheel and always turn it toward you. Next, pull up your bobbin thread. Then put your 5-6 tiny stitch in a row. Remember that is your knot. Quilt Happy! Hope this helps. #knotmachinequiltingthread #howtoknotthreadsonalongarm #knottingmachinequiltingthread Join our updates at: https://www.sallyterry.com/load-it-and-go-society Our Etsy Shop 👉 https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassyStashy Sally Terry Design Blog 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com Sally Terry Design Website 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com LET'S BE FRIENDS! 💕 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SallyTerryQuilting Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thesallyterry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sally.terry.quilting Subscribe. https://bit.ly/2E9EML9 Hit the bell to be notified when I upload a video! Copy link for more thread help for all quilting machine types, from longarm to home machines: https://www.etsy.com/ClassyStashy/listing/499188520/how-to-adjust-thread-tension-for

This is the video on how to change machine quilting threads on your longarm quilting machine fast using the ingenious embroidery tie off. This is fast and really easy and something you will love how truly timesaving it is once you try it on the next thread change on your quilting machine or home machine. Using the embroidery tie off on your longarm, midarm, shortarm or even home machine is easy and quick. You do not have to cut your old thread and pull it out through the needle and completely rethread your machine. By the way, that is how thread should always be removed from any sewing machine. Change thread by pulling it forward through the needle or just above the needle eye. Do not pull it back through the thread guides, it can change the tension on the tensioner spring and more. Just remember to pull it toward you as you sit or stand at the front of your machine facing the needle. Once you are finished with your old thread cut it about 12" away from the cone keeping your machine threaded as normal. Then put your new cone or spool of thread on the thread spindle or holder. Tie a single knot open loop on the old thread about 12" away from the raw end that you cut off from the cone. Next, take 12" of your new quilting thread and pull the raw end of the thread through the loop of your old thread. Now tighten the old quilting thread around the new thread. Make sure the long tails are not wrapped around anything and can move freely. All set? Your new cone of thread is on your machine and now it is time to go to the needle and pull the old thread toward you with the new thread tied tightly in the loop. You may have to help it along if the new thread size is bigger, your tensioner may not be adjusted for the larger thread diameter and it may pull harder or may pull apart as I show at the end. Just watch it and see how it is behaving. The long tail allows for the machine quilting thread to slide down the thread a bit without pulling apart. This is a favorite way to change threads by machine quilters and stitchers. Subscribe. https://bit.ly/2E9EML9 Hit the bell to be notified when I upload a video! find the center of your borders: https://youtu.be/SPlcdSAe0Ls stitch around points: https://youtu.be/qlJ0lLiHIEc Our Etsy Shop 👉 https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassyStashy Sally Terry Design Blog 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com Sally Terry Design Website 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com LET'S BE FRIENDS! 💕 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SallyTerryQuilting Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thesallyterry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sally.terry.quilting Don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell to get more videos like this. Let me know in the comment how it worked for you. I know you will how simple it is and it goes right through your needle eye. Join our Load It and Go Society for all Machine Quilters https://www.sallyterry.com/load-it-and-go-society #sallyterry #embroiderytieoff #machinequiltingthreads

You'll discover we did the hard part for you when it comes to machine quilting designs and pattern layouts. With your Terry Twist Stencils and Rulers you'll get dozens and dozens of pattern suggestions and design layouts for borders, sashing, blocks, fills, and meanders. This allows you to start quilting right away and not spend time trying to figure out what pattern you are going to use. This means your quilts get done!

What is the meaning and use of Civil War Garibaldi prints and how to use them together in a collection for quilting. Watch Sally and Tina's shenanigans about rare Civil War Printed Fabrics.

Feathers define the quilt and they also define the quilter. Get Free Motion Feather Freedom and learn how to Free Motion Machine Quilt Feathers Hands-On in a weekend. In the Sally Terry free motion quilting tutorial you get free motion feathers patterns and designs for beginner to advanced. The course is in small baby-steps for the true beginner and each segment bit-size. So you will learn step-by-step how to machine quilt feathers faster and easier than other programs. Plus receive patterns and hand-outs on PDF files. If you like my approach to free motion machine quilting with "wiggle room" then check out this free motion feather class. Take advantage of the discount, click through here for COUPON: https://sally-terry.teachable.com/p/machine-quilt-free-motion-feathers/?coupon_code=20OFF Our Etsy Shop 👉 https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassyStashy Sally Terry Design Blog 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com Sally Terry Design Website 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com LET'S BE FRIENDS! 💕 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SallyTerryQuilting Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thesallyterry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sally.terry.quilting #freemotionfeatherclass #sallyterry #sallyterryfreemotionquiltingtutorials Subscribe. https://bit.ly/2E9EML9 Hit the bell to be notified when I upload a video!

Antique quilts deserve to be loved and displayed. Here is the story of how Sally Terry restored and machine quilted a Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt Top into a beautiful finished quilt.

Simple machine quilting using Sally Terry's Hooked on Feathers non-backtracking feather technique video.

You can remove wrinkles from a quilt loaded on your quilting machine or even after you machine quilted it. Wrinkles in quilts often come from being folded too long. Also many battings have a memory to their fibers so that means even more wrinkles. Ho remove wrinkles is spray them with a wrinkle remover product found in the laundry section at the store. Or you can use 24 oz. of distilled water mixed with 3 oz. of vodka. Smooth it out and let it dry overnight. I also hang my quilts over the rollers in the opposite position of the fold and spray the long wrinkle or crease and let it dry. Hope this helps remove wrinkles during quilting. Our Etsy Shop 👉Our Etsy Shop 👉 https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassyStashy Sally Terry Design Blog 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com Sally Terry Design Website 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com LET'S BE FRIENDS! 💕 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SallyTerryQuilting Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/thesallyterry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sally.terry.quilting https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassyStashy Sally Terry Design Blog 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com Sally Terry Design Website 👉 https://www.sallyterry.com #terrytwistquilting #sallyterry #machinequilting Subscribe. https://bit.ly/2E9EML9 Hit the bell to be notified when I upload a video!

Find Machine Quilting Patterns Fast with Sally Terry as she teaches you to put quilting patterns together for your next quilting project. Picking patterns can be a large task with so many choices. Sally shortens the time it takes to find the right machine quilting patterns and layout quilting designs. Use this for your digital pattern choices too. Subscribe. https://bit.ly/2E9EML9 Hit the bell to be notified when I upload a video! Sally Terry's Website and Sally Terry Designs http://www.sallyterry.com #machinequilting #sallyterry #machinequiltingpatterns Join us Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sallyterrytwist Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/thesallyterry/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sally.terry.quilting/