Ditch quilting.............
I guess this presser foot would be called a straight stitch walking foot. The ones on my zig zag machines have the wide opening between the toes. I love this narrow one because it zeroes in on the seam a/k/a the ditch with nowhere else for your eye to be drawn to.
The foot control on this one is so good too, no jumpy fast speeds when you are starting up, very nice and even slow speed (without a speed control switch). I love the Las Vegas light strip that I added for extra good sight lines.
I stitched in the ditch between blocks in both directions and on both sides of the rows containing the long bar of the plus part of the block. I am over half done with the quilting on the X and + quilt now.
I have the African fabric quilt 1/3 basted in my alternate sessions of basting and quilting.
We got some lovely gentle rain yesterday and we needed it. This photo was taken from the kitchen window in the afternoon session of rain. The flowers in the back are the Brown Eyed Susans that my friend gave me earlier this summer. I already had a different variety of them in the center of the photo. There should be 2 masses of yellow soon.
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love to know that those taller ones are called brown eyed susans. My garden is full of them and I have described them up to now as small black eyed susans. Good to know
You are making great progress on those quilts. The light burnt out on my machine and I fought with it for 20 minutes to get the burnt out bulb out of the machine. Now I can't get the new bulb back in! Ugh! I am going to have to take it somewhere and see if a repair guy can get the bulb in it's socket. In the meantime, I have a little extra light that you stick on the machine. I can pinpoint it at the foot area and still sew.
Ls Vegas lights -- LOL! I'm going to remember that one.
Your ditch quilting is superb - and what a pretty garden photo.
Quilt is looking great. I got some rain overnight, but I can't tell if it helped the parched garden or not. I was away last week and things got bone dry. Hope to get back to my machine today.
Your walking presser foot is a gem for ditch stitching plus your extra lighting, I can see how you achieve perfection.
Lovely photo of your garden.
JJM
Love your garden photo, so pretty.
Neat foot that directs your eyes beautifully! We finally are having a rainy day...very refreshing hugs, Julierose
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