Sewing - Free Motion Stitching

I brought this box of sewing machine accessories home from the ReUse Ctr last week.

After a visit with my aunt on Saturday where she mentioned she would like to try free motion stitching I say I would check the box and see if there was a darning foot.

There was! 

Would it work? She had a Singer machine and some of the accessories were Singer. They connected differently than my Bernina machine.

I decided that I should at least try free motion stitching myself before I offered to help her.

I had a darning foot for my machine. So I watched a few videos. 

Then I dug into my box of scraps and prepared a sandwich of a foundation layer, a piece of cotton batting and then scraps on top to make something pretty.

I started with small pieces that if they worked out could be used for stitched cards.

It is very different.  It will take a bit of practice to make the stitching pretty.

I have enjoyed the process and the backgrounds have worked out well.  I learned I should start bigger and trim later as the stitching does shrink the piece.  Grippy gloves would really help.

Well, here are the four pieces I managed over several days.

I have trimmed the pieces to card front size and added slow stitching elements and they will become cards.

The color coordinating of the scraps is a very time consuming process.

It was very exciting to do something new.

I did spend a morning with my aunt and we did get the darning foot from the box onto her machine and she did a bit of testing to see if it would work.

She is happy and looking forward to experimenting.