A blanket stitch is something every culture wants.
Stitch number 13-29 and 13-30 are blanket stitches built into your machine.
As we pick them ... 13-29 ... one thing that I like to do is I like to actually set this
up so the needle position is actually in the far right needle position.
Now, once you go ahead and move that all the way over, you'll be able to use the inside
of the open toe foot as a guide.
Now to be able to see that as a setting, that always comes up, touch OK.
That will memorize that setting.
If you like it a little bit wider or a little longer, you also could set that and touch
OK.
It will remember that.
That means once you turn it off and then turn it back on and come back to this stitch, it's
right where you left it.
Love that.
Let's go ahead and play with this stitch a little bit.
Once you start this again, line up on the inside of the right toe.
We'll zoom in here so you can see.
There we go.
Part of this stitch is actually learning the rhythm, that it goes forward and then it jumps
in for a bite.
As it jumps in, you want to stop with the needle in the down position.
I'm going to go ahead and set that.
Now every time I stop, I can use the ... it will stop.
If you stop on the inside, you don't want to pivot here, because that's going to open
up that little stitch that came in.
You want to wait till you're on the outside edge for pivoting.
Use your [presser foot lector 01:27], just doesn't work for me right here where the camera
is.
But I use that all the time, that way my hands are always on my fabric, easily adjusting
as I go.
Usually people will just tend to turn this really, really fast, which is OK.
But look, as I get to a sharper curve, that's not really going to be conducive.
You're going to need to stop and actually make that little pivot point.
Another thing for size in this, the stitch width and length, it does kind of need to
be in proportion to the item you're going around.
If you're going around something really small, like a little berry, you're going to want
to adjust this down maybe for a stitch length of 1.5 and a stitch width of 1.5.
I tend to keep this nice in proportion; the width is the same as the length.
Kind of keeps it like a little box going around here.
OK, here's where we need to start practically every time I take a stitch, do a little pivot.
So you keep those little bites perfectly perpendicular to the edge of your fabric there.
All right, as we keep on going ...
Now, if I switch over to stitch number 13-30, OK, I'm going to move that needle position
once again, touch OK so that's actually part of my memory here.
This stitch is going to provide us with a much heavier-looking blanket stitch.
The only thing here is you really do need to watch.
You don't want to actually do any pivoting when it's in that backward swing, as it's
going back and forth.
So again, find the little dance that it does - in, out, in, out, and then forward, back,
forward, back, and then down.
Again, find where you want to do the pivoting.
That's right before it either starts going forward or right after it ends.
That's when you can pivot, and then you can work your way around.
Let me show you what this is going to look like here.
OK, once you're done, you can go ahead and pull that out.
We have a nice, beautiful thicker satin sti- ... not satin stitch, blanket stitch as we
go around.
Now, just to note about a blanket stitch, because this is a raw edge, over time this
is something that isn't probably going to stay as pretty.
Keep in mind if you're doing raw edge applique with this stitch, do it on something that's
not going to get washed on a daily basis, that might be for a child.
But if it's something decorative, it's seasonal, it's out once a year, no big deal.
You don't have to worry about turning in under those edges.
But if it is going to be something for an item again that's going to be washed heavily,
I would take the time to do one of the techniques where you end up turning these edges under,
so there's no raw edge.
It is a finished edge, and still do this stitch all the way around it.
It'll still look really pretty, but it will last the test of time.