hi guys I'm going to give you my top five tips on free motion quilting on
your baby lock soprano now I created this video because one of my subscribers
asked me to take a look at this comment firstly Colleen thank you very much for
your comment and it reads could you do something on setting up the soprano for
free motion quilting there were a couple of settings I'd like to see let me know
if I've missed anything Colleen in the comments down below
hello I'm Cassie and I'm from Faodail Creation and I create videos every
single Wednesday on how to use your sewing machine and simple sewing tips
and tricks and in this video we are obviously going to free motion quilt so
let's get to it I have five tips so my first one is going to be about setup so
let's turn on our Baby lock soprano. Let's first concentrate on the menu settings
first of all we're going to press this button here and you're going to scroll
down and on page six we're going to turn free motion to on which is this button
here so now what we are set to free motion on and we're going to hit okay
the next thing we are going to do is take this off here because we're going
to use our table anyway so take this right off now we have turned the whole
machine all the way around and on the back of the machine is this switch here
which lowers your feed dogs which are these guys here they usually drag the
fabric through, we want to push this over to drop the feed dogs because we don't want
this interfering with our free motion quilting while I have this machine
turned around like we want to take our regular foot off the
whole unit needs to come off because we need to put our free motion foot on your
machine came with a foot that looks like this it has a spring on it and it's the
free motion foot. Here's another angle of it so you can see what it looks
like I recommend getting the tool that looks like this out and we'll start to
attach this foot on to our machine. This is a regular foot we are going to take
this off you should be able to just slightly unscrew it leave the screw on
get your other foot and you just hook that right on its place
and screw it back on
just make sure that it's tight I have my bobbin already wound in my case down
there, now I choose to have my thread stored separately on a free-standing
stand and not actually in my machine so as you can see here I have no thread
it's just over there stood next to my machine. Tip 2 is what you're going
need to use for free motion quilting now I'm using a fine thread and I just got a
regular 90/14 microtex needle in my machine however if you're using a
thicker thread you may need a bigger needle and some threads will recommend
that you use a bigger needle like this one says 90/100 top stitch needle your
machine came with this extra table so now is the time to be putting this on
and it just snaps into place now this is optional but I'll let you
know the benefits of using it this here is a Teflon mat and it helps to glide
your fabric about rather than it's sticking on to this surface here and it
has a hole in it so this hole goes right under where your needle is and I'll just
place mine on it has like a sticky side on the other side and sometimes it does
come loose over time but it's fine you just we stick it back down so I'm
just going to show you how this goes on
you just need to make sure that it's just away from the needle going up
and down like so everything is just out of the way here another thing that I
personally like to use is quilting gloves they've just got grips on the end
of the fingers and help you just to move that fabric about a little bit easier
tip 3 is to start small try and something like a coaster or something
don't try and go big on a quilt on your first attempt always go small so I'm
going to show in a little piece of scrap like this I've got my top part which is
cotton right sides up I've got my batting which is I I think it may be a bamboo
and then I've got my second layer of cotton so you're making a sandwich so
you want the right side to be facing outward you were going to quilt exactly
how you see it now if you are quilting a bigger section obviously this is tiny
and doesn't need basting you are going to need some adhesive spray like this and
if you're doing a bigger quilt you're also going to have to use some safety
pins to pin all them sections down but for this example we're just going to use
this little piece of fabric. Tip number four was all about relaxing so you
really gonna have to loosen up your shoulders don't be tense just try and
shake it out and just go for it you have to have no fear just to go ahead and
free motion it may be good it may not be good who cares you have to start
somewhere and just go with the flow. My personal opinion about free motion
quilting is I think it's really individual and I really think it's just
like handwriting my handwriting looks absolutely nothing like your handwriting
so look at a basic free motion pattern and just go with it and Tip 5 is
just to start with a basic design just like a Marander so now that we have
everything in place we can start so this is what I'm going to do I'm just going
to do a basic Maranda I haven't changed any of my stitch lengths I've kept the
speed down to like a medium setting your free motion may be different to my free
motion it's all about how fast you move your hands to how fast the needle is
going up and down so you may have to change your speed dial up or you may
have to change the speed dial down in order to figure out what speed you
prefer to free motion quilt on so I'm going to start like right at the side here
so I'm trying to give you the best angle possible so you can see what I'm
doing here but just think of a river just think of a river and how the path
of the river is going to flow so I'm going to put my presser foot down I'm
going to keep my needle down at all times needle has to be in the down
position and I'm just going to press my presser foot and I'm going to create a
little river going around this cotton fabric so we're just going to keep
curving around
like so just remember just always stop with the needle down you may have to
stop for a fraction of a second because that needle is going to not you're going
to lift your presser foot up and your needles going to be slightly still going
so just make sure that everything comes to a complete stop before you carry on
again because you're going to be a little bit jittery and it's okay to stop
and start don't think you can't do that you can you can stop and start so let's
keep going here
they just say just make sure that you don't cross over any of the lines
anywhere it's to just keep going just Marander your creating a little River here
see this little river going through my fabric so let's just keep going I'm
trying to watch the placement of my hands because you guys need to see it on
the video but I also recommend that you you do this with music see how I got
this caught here in the fabric section just lift up your presser foot and put
it back down problem solved don't worry about
anything but the one thing I highly recommend is you listen to some music
while you're doing this because it just helps you forget about what your doing
see here where I met these two lines together so what you know who cares so let's just
keep going
the thing is, is that we're creating like we're doing this all right now with our
just regular soprano sewing machine we're not doing it with the long
arm and it's just so liberating when you can do this on your own without
having to use a template because when you get good at you curves you can then
move on to other things
and guys if you have any questions for me please leave them in the comments
down below I would be happy to answer them for you. And just stop you can also
pivot your work if you want just move about don't have any fear just get on
and do the design. There we go and I'm just going to end it over onto the batting
over here believe me un picking this stuff that it's not going to fall out on
you I've had to unpick a whole entire quilt myself
well not myself had help and it wasn't it wasn't a good experience this video
was created because one of you asked me to and if you've got any recommendations
on what you would like to see next please leave it in the comments down
below. And once again thank you so much for watching and don't forget to hit
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