how to use quilting rulers for your machine embroidery projects
Channel: Geraldine Gillen
Date: 03/07/2018

Rulers are available at http://HandspanRulers.com

Hi Geraldine, back with you again. So I'm here at the machine ready to quilt my table runner, going to quilt this in a zigzag motion so I have my supreme slider on the table so that everything moves easily. I have my ruler foot on the machine and I'm going to go into the home screen and then into the teeshirt option and go to quilting and then on this machine I have an option for ruler work. I'm going to take my tension down to 2 and just lift my foot a little just because I have the quilters felt on the back here and some extra wadding or batting so we're good to go, now I want to quilt this a half an inch away from the edge of the fabric. Now I know the needle is going to already be. If I placed the foot against the edge of the fabric. 

The needle's already a quarter inch your way, so I'm going to use the ruler and I'm going to place the first line on the edge of the ruler, on the edge of the fabric. Then when I place the ruler down the quarter inch from the foot and then the quarter inch on the ruler gives me a half inch marking, so I need to start up here, right up at the top and off onto the white. So I've got this line on there, now I'm going to pop my foot down, put my needle down, bring my foot back up and just bring up that bobbin thread. I've recently found these little wraps for my fingers, which are like a bandage, um, but they rubber and instead of wearing thimbles, I can just wear those. Now I've got my speed set on a medium pace. I'm going to just take the foot back out to the edge, pop the foot down, pop my needle down, bring up a bit as a quilt and we're good to go.  

Now as I stitched down I'm placing the horizontal line on the bottom of my diamond here, because I know I need to stop also. Um, so that I can stitch a half an inch away. So I have this line here on the diamond, so I'm going to stitch down to a quarter inch your way because the quarter, the quarter plus the foot will give me the half inch to turn. So a couple of stitches on the spot just to get going. I'm using a quilting thread that's a forty weight let's just tests that , can see I've placed my ruler now on the horizontal line going across and I am just right up against it now. So now I'm just going to sew sideways. So here I'm going to put a line again on the edge of my applique square and I'll stop a quarter inch and just measure. So the point is stop is where the needle lines up with the line so that when you turn I've just got to do one more line. So just line it back up again 

just walk across and then when I turn automatically, now my quarter inch line is on the edge of my square. So I'll go again with my little grippies. Just going to line up my square this way and stop there. 

I'm using a cotton that is a mixture of gray and cream because my fabrics, are cream and a gray color, so just one more little bit here and then turn and I'm on the quarter inch line again, 

maybe just one more little bit and here we go again and again. 

So you can see once you get going, it's quite easy to have a look here to keep the shape all the way down as you go along and because we're not having to take turning the piece around in the direction we want to go, we're simply moving the ruler so that it's facing the direction we want to go. It's a little bit tricky here with the camera because I'm not sitting square on. 

You need to set your speed, whatever that is, but find a comfortable speed where you feel in control. I like to use the foot control when I do this rather than the stop start button. 

So I'm just going to keep going down, all the way one side and then I'm going to come back up the other side. 

So back with you again. Now I have finished all the quilting and just given this trim and you can see there I'm pretty happy with the way it's all quilted and the back looks great as well, so hope you enjoyed that video. I look forward to seeing you again in another video soon. 

Bye for now.