Crosshatching
IQ Booster #5
By: Shirley Higginbotham
CROSSHATCHING (Hanging Diamonds to come later)
Design/Sew Quilt
Start New
Pantograph
Enter Rectangle Manually (I am using width of 48 and height of 24 for testing)
Finished
Down Arrow to Geometric Catalog
Angle; Continue; Angle; Continue
Row Height; Calculator; 1 & Enter
Flip Y
Wow, looks good, but we're not finished!
Clip Off
Skew; Right Arrow 6 times; now Left Arrow 1 time to achieve maximum results. (you will find the arrows in the light blue area of the screen on the right side) Skew now = 1.3%
Row Gap; Down Arrow 3 times (This creates an overlap which gives excellent stitch alignment.) Row Gap now = -0.03
Finished
Transition Type; + until Transition Type = Jumpstitch. (Since we used Clip Off and skew we have 0 jumpstitches.)
Accept; Yes
Let's sew it out:
Sew Quilt
Zoom Off; Zoom In; Touch screen 2 times to enlarge the pattern for selecting rows.
Pan; Drag quilt to position on the screen you like to see for selecting rows
Zoom On to turn off zoom
Touch first row; Continue
Touch 2nd row; Continue; Stop To Cut Threads
Touch 3rd row; Continue; Stop To Cut Threads
Continue previous row until you have selected the entire quilt.
This stitching sequence will stitch each row from left to right which gives the best stitch alignment. I tried many options and stitched each to determine best results. 50% offset in lieu of flipping Y did not line up as well
when stitched. Swapping start/end points to sew a row left to right then right to left was much faster and less labor intensive to stitch out, however, stitching did not line up as well. This might be an option for me if I am not overly concerned about alignment on a utility quilt.
SEW QUILT
Thanks to Diane and Jenny who started this thread on the list.