QUILTsocial Issue 21

Piecing blocks are quick and accurate
with the PFAFF performance icon
Sewing half square triangles with the PFAFF
performance icon
User’s Guide on the Multi-Touch Screen open to
the Patchwork Program
Start/Stop button close to needle and just above
the Reverse button
Needle Up/Down button lit up while engaged
and sewing HSTs
Time to start sewing! We collected fabrics and cut out the
pieces to make a Double T runner. Regardless of the time of
year, it’s always a treat to sew with the PFAFF performance icon.
We’ll use the Patchwork Program to speed up the process of
piecing similar blocks.
Patchwork Program
The PFAFF performance icon comes with many built in features
to make sewing accurately easy and enjoyable. It’s been a while
since I used the Patchwork Program but I realized that sewing
together all of the half square triangles (HSTs) needed for this
project was a great opportunity to use it again. I touched the
program at the bottom of the Multi-Touch Screen then the
question mark at the top right. A pop-up came up where I
selected the program again and was brought right to the page
in the User’s Guide to reread how to use it. The built-in guide
makes it so easy to look things up in the moment – no leaving
the machine and getting distracted. The Multi-Touch Screen is
about the size of a small tablet so it’s easy to read too.
To stitch with the Patchwork Program, you simply press the
Start/Stop button which is located right above the Reverse
button close to the needle. The program will stitch out the
length of stitches you program into it and stop when it’s done.
Then you get your next set of fabrics ready and press the button
again. It’s a great feature to use when a large number of samesized
units is needed.
We’re sewing together the larger units needed for the blocks,
half square triangles and some flying geese units.
Making half square triangles
1. Draw 1 diagonal line on the back of each Double T orange
and blue print fabrics 6” squares.
2. Sew an orange print 6” square to a black background square,
right sides together, by sewing ¼” away from each side of
the drawn line.
3. Cut on the drawn line to create 2 HSTs. Press the seam to the
background fabric.
4. Repeat these steps with the remaining 2 orange squares.
5. Sew 1 blue square to 1 black background square, right sides
together, by sewing ¼” away from each side of the drawn line.
6. Cut on the drawn line to create 2 HSTs. Press the seam to the
blue fabric.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 with the remaining blue square.
8. Trim each HST to 5½”. You should have 8 orange and black
HSTs and 4 blue and black HSTs.
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