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Free Motion1/15/2024 ![]() It helps you follow and live by all of the proven productivity advice. So we trained Motion to be your productivity pro and personal assistant. Or, an expensive personal assistant to manage it for you. All of this planning takes a lot of time and effort. They guard large chunks of time on their calendar for deep, focused work. They limit meetings and only schedule them on certain days and at certain times. They block time on their calendars to complete every task. Hyper productive people religiously plan their day minute by minute. Please do check out our exciting specialised course on Free Motion Sewing here.To develop Motion’s Intelligent Calendar, we carefully studied how the most productive people in the world get more done each day. We hope this brief introduction to Free Motion has been helpful. ![]() The advantage is that once you are finished, you can wash away the fabric with water and be left with a beautiful applique item. Using an embroidery hoop, the dissolvable fabric can be held in place and stitched on, just as you would normal fabric. These are absolutely great with free motion sewing. There are a range of fabrics known as 'dissolvables' that do just that - dissolve. When you freemotion in this way it will fill much larger areas. With this technique the zigzag stitch is selected and a free motion foot with a slot not a hole. To fill in large areas we use a technique often referred to as ‘thread painting’. It creates much a much bolder effect, as you can see in the above image. Couching can be done while you are free motion sewing, the same rules apply. It can take a bit of practice but usually just starting by moving the fabric slowly with a medium speed will enable you to get used to this.Ĭouching when a thicker thread or other material is laid across your fabric and fastened in place with small stitches of the same or different thread. It gives more texture to your work, creating raised areas. If the needle is down and you move the fabric it will deflect and often result in a snapped needle. The fabric must only be moved when the needle is up. If you move your fabric quickly and stitching slowly will achieve long stitches. If you move your fabric slowly and you stitch fast you will get very small stitches. Therefore to achieve and even stitch length takes a bit of practice. The length of the stitch is determined by the motor speed and how fast or slow the fabric is moved. See Steve's work below as an example of detailed straight stitch free motion sewing. This creates stitches that can be likened to drawing. So as to prevent your fabric jumping up and down with the needle, a free motion sewing foot is spring loaded and moves up and down at the same time as your needle. ![]() This is where a specialised free motion sewing foot comes in. In doing this your fabric is no longer being gripped and fed through the machine. For this fantastic and creative method of sewing the feed dogs that normally drive your fabric in one direction are lowered down or covered with a small plate, enabling you to freely move your fabric. ![]() But how do they do it? Is it really possible to draw with your sewing machine? Well yes, it is. People have created some amazing pieces of textile art or illustration using this method, you may have seen them. Free motion is a type of machine sewing whereby you are effectively drawing with the needle.
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