When you want to work with a twin needle, you can go ahead and pick from any of the
sizes that are available at the 6mm’s wide and that’s the distance between the two
needles in the package.
This one says 2.5.
First thing before I do anything is I go ahead and tell the machine by going to the start
menu, go down to the tools with the set menu and where it says twin needle turn it from
off and this size is 2.5.
With that on, push the green check mark.
Now, I love it that when I pick the stitches, it’s going to show me that there’s two,
what it’s going to look like with that particular size of needle and is really fun when you
get into the decorative stitches.
As we go into here you will see what they are going to look like.
Some are going to look a little bit better than others, but for example here you are
going to get some different…
Oo that’s pretty.
It’s got my name.
If you find yourself sowing out all the decorative stitches, you are going to find that if you
also sow them out with a twin needle you will have a nice variety.
Let’s go ahead and talk about how we are going to set up for this particular threading.
It’s a little bit different.
All right.
Oh goodness, we can just go on and on with the stitches that we have selected here.
Okay.
We’ll just go back to a straight stitch and…
Okay.
First off, we are going to go ahead and put our twin needle on.
The beauty of setting up the machine or the twin needle option is it doesn’t matter
what stitch we pick, it’s going to automatically reduce the width and make sure we don’t
overstep our presser foot.
First thread is going to, thread or be placed like you normally do.
Full cap on, and then your second spool just go ahead and put it up here on the vertical
one.
What we are going to do is we are going to put them in our hand together come across
the first guide and underneath just together, just like you would normally do one but before
you come down here, do you know this is a little thin in here?
What I want you to do is separate the two threads, one is going to go on the right,
one is going to go on the left.
That is going to allow each thread to have equal tension when we go to sow, it’s really
nice.
Then just put them together and thread the rest of the machine as normal, keeping in
mind the needle threader will not go through these needles here because the hole is not
in the center it’s out to each sides.
You are going to need to manually thread, I’ll lower down my presser foot just to
have a little bit more space in there.
It’s also really fun if you use variegated thread with these options.
The combinations are really unlimited and just because you use it, a decorative stitch
in one size of twin needle when you change sizes they are actually going to look different.
You can technically go about doing this with multiple sizes and get different results.
Here is a couple of options as we stitch this, this is a straight stitch that’s great when
you are doing pin tacks or [pinnulating?
00:03:10] the hem on a stretch t-shirt for example.
But as you look you are going to get different looks and every time I stitch I love seeing
the results.
See when they are two colors like this or if you put one of those to be a variegated
thread or both of them to be a variegated thread, just go ahead and start off very simple
and then that way, when you go to stitch…
There you go.
Then you are ready to have the right setting.
Then going to sow, go ahead and start off by just testing it with a regular straight
stitch and make sure you have everything threaded out correctly.
I don’t like to start off sowing a little bit on the slower side but as soon as you
go ahead and get into the decorative stitches, and I love kind of even some of these basic
ones, that are utility stitches.
For example, stitch number 21 is that a gathering or bridging stitch.
That’s actually one of my favorites to do with a twin needle…
I’ll show you why.
All right.
Then we’ll take a look at the back so you’ll know what to expect back here.
Okay.
There is that fun stitch but even the utility stitches can look just as fun.
Now, your bobbin is going to play double duties so it’s going to have to catch both needles
that it’s going by so you are going to have kind of a zigzag back.
You could actually use a twin needle when you free motion quilt.
Pick a straight stitch and then come on back to, there we go….
Straight stitch going into sowing and formation, bend it out for free motion quilting and you
can quilt with a twin needle and then it will actually look like calligraphy because the
threads will look like a ribbon as they go across your quilt.
Have some fun with some of the double needles and don’t forget they make triple needles
too.