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Husqvarna Viking Designer Ruby Royale with embroidery unit Interactive Touch Screen Interactive Touch Screen There’s so much information on the Interactive Touch Screen, yet it’s all very nicely organized and easy to read. It’s easy to scroll through the stitch menus to find an appropriate stitch and once you’ve selected a stitch, you can see the stitch number in the top left corner. The recommended presser foot appears on the screen, as well a diagram of the actual stitch. Changing the width or length of the stitch is easy with the appropriate touch buttons. Other functions on the screen will indicate the tension, mirroring stitches, moving into free motion mode and a whole lot more. Although the screen looks intimidating, it’s not! It’s very easy to read and doesn’t take that long to figure out what does what. That’s where sitting down with the manual and doing a little bit of experimenting will make you a whole lot more comfortable with the sewing machine and all of its features. Sewing Advisor At the bottom of the Interactive Touch Screen is the Sewing Advisor. By indicating to the Designer Ruby deLuxe what type of fabric you’re using and what kind of technique you want to perform (simply by selecting the appropriate buttons), the sewing machine will set the tension, tell you what is the best presser foot and also the best stitch to use and will provide the optimal settings for that stitch. All those items can be over-ridden if you feel that you don’t like the settings. That’s like having the Home Economics teacher sitting at your side. A very useful tool if you’re relatively new to sewing or you’re doing a new technique. I use this a lot if I’m changing the type of fabric I’m using. In the few points mentioned here, you can see just how easy it is to use the Husqvarna Viking Designer Ruby deLuxe sewing machine. While all those tasks could be performed manually, having the sewing machine take care of them means that you can focus on creating a better project. If you’re in the market for an amazing sewing machine that also does embroidery, I’d seriously check out the Designer Ruby Royale. It’s got everything you need to make great projects and it’s so easy to use. I love experimenting and I’ll show you some experiments with quilt binding that I think you’ll find very interesting. Q 38 .com| issue 12 UILTsocial
3 tattle tale experiments on binding a quilt So far, we looked at the several features of the Ruby Royale that make sewing/ quilting so much more fun and much easier. Quilting is our hobby after all. It’s supposed to be all about having fun. Last time I guest blogged on QUILTsocial it was March 2018, it was all about binding. While this seems like such a simple topic, there are lots of little tips and tricks. Although I shared a lot of what I know last time, there are still a few things that have been bothering me. I’ll be using the Husqvarna Viking Designer Ruby deLuxe to walk you through these binding experiments. I was at a recent guild meeting and the topic was bindings. As the presenter walked us through a number of different styles of binding, the topic of bias binding came up. There’s an urban myth (or should we call it a quilt police law?), that bias binding is better than cross grain binding. OK – I’m good with that, but WHY is the bias binding supposed to be superior to the cross grain binding? I like to know why. I had performed this experiment a number of years ago when seeking an answer to that same question. I thought it was time to revisit this issue (for the last time) to see if the results were the same or different. Bias binding versus cross-grain binding and lengthwise grain binding For the samples, I used pre-quilted fabric for the “quilts”. I chose a striped fabric for the binding so it would be easy to see which grain was used on which sample. The stripe runs parallel to the selvage of the fabric. Then I got busy and made binding, cutting the binding fabric in three different directions. Binding made using strips cut on the lengthwise grain Binding made using strips cut on the crosswise grain And I made binding using bias strips. I used the continuous bias binding method I described in my 9 steps to continuous bias binding in March 2018 series of posts. Binding made using strips cut on the bias Then the bindings were attached to the pre-quilted fabric pieces. I used the Dual Feed Foot to attach the bindings to the backs of the quilts and I used my Clear Foot B to attach the bindings to the fronts of the quilts. I used a straight stitch for the seam on the front. Binding made with strips cut on the lengthwise grain of fabric Looks nice on the corner, but not all corners were this nice. It’s very hard to get the stripe to run parallel unless you fussy cut the strip which I did not. The pattern on the mitered corner may or may not end up matching. This one matched, but it was a fluke. Q .com| UILTsocial issue 12 39
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