Creative Textile and Quilting Arts » Decorative Stitches http://www.creative-textile-and-quilting-arts.com Inspiration, Education and Motivation for Textile and Quilt Artists Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:44:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Using the Decorative Stitches on your Sewing Machine http://www.creative-textile-and-quilting-arts.com/using-the-decorative-stitches-on-your-sewing-machine/ http://www.creative-textile-and-quilting-arts.com/using-the-decorative-stitches-on-your-sewing-machine/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:35:42 +0000 LindaM http://www.creative-textile-and-quilting-arts.com/using-the-decorative-stitches-on-your-sewing-machine/ Continue reading →]]> Do you ever use the decorative stitches on your machine? I know a lot of sewing machine owners – especially quilters – don’t use them. Your decorative stitches, with a little imagination and the right threads, offers great potential for interesting and innovative embellishment.

I love to use the decorative stitches on my sewing machine; they’re a wonderful source of decorative embellishment for all sorts of applications and you’ll see a lot of my quilts and samples have some sort of decorative stitching on them.

You can use decorative stitches in many ways:

… instead of straight stitch for stitch-in-the-ditch.

Use decorative stitches for stitch-in-the-ditch

… to sew down the bindings on your quilts.

Use Decorative Stitches for Quilt Bindings

… for couching

Use Decorative Stitches for Couching

… to make quilt blocks

Use Decorative Stitches to make Quilt Blocks

… to make ribbon effects

Use Decorative Stitches to make Ribbon Effects

… to make decorative designs

Use Decorative Stitches to make Decorative Designs

How do you use your decorative stitches?

Share your tips in the comment section – we’d love to know.

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