{"id":732,"date":"2008-08-31T18:06:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T18:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2008\/08\/31\/sew-inspired-ha-freehand\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T18:06:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T18:06:45","slug":"sew-inspired-ha-freehand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2008\/08\/31\/sew-inspired-ha-freehand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sew inspired (HA!) – Freehand"},"content":{"rendered":"

After seeing crafter girlpopcorn<\/a> in this video<\/a> on Threadbanger, I was inspired and got myself an embroidery & darning foot for my singer and some water soluble stabilizer<\/a>. It came at the end of last week and decided to give it a quick try since the weekend was here. I am posting this in the hopes that once I get better with this, I can look back at this and see how far I’ve come. HA! At first I couldn’t figure out how to put the darn thing on! Once I realized that I would have to unscrew the shank that is on there now, I got a little nervous. I don’t like to unscrew things that I’m not familiar with! My manual also said I had to put the feed dogs down to do embroidery\/free motion. I didn’t even know they went down! I didn’t know they were called feed dogs! LOL. Well, I still don’t really know if I put it on correctly as there is so much space between the foot and the sewing plate. I guess you need that much space in order to move the fabric around.<\/p>\n

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I pulled out some scrap sheets that I saved just for these practicing purposes. I decided to try and do Sienna’s name. I was so anxious, I spelled it wrong! HA!<\/p>\n

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I fiddled with the tension and realized the higher tension was not the way to go. I think this was somewhere between 5 and 7:<\/p>\n

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So I moved it lower to a 2. Yves’ name came out the best.<\/p>\n

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I thought it only fitting that I do Sienna’s name again but spelled correctly!<\/p>\n

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I certainly need a lot of practice with this and I’m guessing (hoping) the stabilizer will help. Hopefully my next post on this will be more successful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After seeing crafter girlpopcorn in this video on Threadbanger, I was inspired and got myself an embroidery & darning foot for my singer and some water soluble stabilizer. It came at the end of last week and decided to give it a quick try since the weekend was here. I am posting this in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}