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.
My straight stitch machine has new lighting, a Mother's Day present. I had to take the photo in semi darkness or the lights didn't show up. They are little LED lights on a sticky backed strip.
For anyone who wants the technical info here is the instruction sheet.
I had 2.5 hours of TV watching last night so I sewed some of the star blocks with the 2" finished triangle squares. I'll keep making them until I get tired of them and then decide what I am going to do with them.
I picked my first bouquet of peonies yesterday afternoon. I always keep the bouquet in the garage overnight to be sure the ants are all out of them. We had rain storms come through in the late afternoon and my rain gauge had 1.75" in it.
I bought my longarm machine (Babylock Jewel 18") in November 2008. (I don't quilt for others.) I have quilted 88 quilts on it since then, 41 which were given away or sold, 9 QOV quilts, and 38 that I still own. So....in 5.75 years I have averaged quilting a little over 15 quilts a year....so I guess I can stop beating myself up for not getting more done.
I also quilt some of my smaller pieces on my regular machines. This one is the Pfaff 7570, 14 years old, in my Koala cabinet in the main floor studio.
In the basement I have a larger opening for the quilt to go through on the Babylock straight stitch machine which they have now named Jane. It was the Professional Quilter when I bought it and it is over 10 years old.
On those 2 machines from 2009 to present I have quilted 49 pieces of which I gave away or sold 21 and still own 28. These range in size from mini quilts and tablerunners to twin size. On these 2 machines I averaged a little less than 9 pieces a year. On all 3 machines I averaged 24 quilts quilted each year, or 2 a month (and I'm sure I started piecing at least 2 a month too!).
