This question was posed to Annie Smith as she discussed machine applique. Here is her answer:
I always do. I take a little four-by-six piece of
fabric. I fold it in the center to make a little pleat. I just run a stitch to
make sure my blanket stitch is stitching exactly the way I want it to,
width-wise and length-wise. I make sure I don’t have any skipped stitches or
anything like that.
The reason I put a little pleat in
it is it will allow me to take the straight stitches in the lower part of the
fabric and it will allow me to put my zigzags into the pleat. That is the
higher part of the fabric.
Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren
www.TheQuiltingCoach.com
