Take one cross-hatch stencil and a free-motion foot
In Quilters Companion #84, we looked at using your walking foot to create interesting quilting designs and textures using a 1in cross-hatch stencil. This issue, I would like to explore the same stencil for you, but use the free-motion foot instead.
With all free-motion quilting, we attach the freemotion darning foot on the machine. I like to use an open-toe #24 foot on my Bernina. Then we drop or disengage the feed dogs and take the stitch length to zero. If you are new to free-motion quilting, practise for a while on scrap fabric basted with batting. Slowly move the fabric with your hands slightly up and down, then left and right. With free-motion quilting you do not have to
