Yesterday I showed you how to prepare some fabric strips in preparation for decorative stitching with the new Brother The Luminaire sewing and embroidery machine. Have you had the chance to cut your fabric strips? I hope you had a chance to watch the video about using the decorative stitches.

Lets start sewing!

• Use the 5 strips that you cut out yesterday and lay them on your cutting table.
• You’ve already cut a gentle, curvy line on one side of the 2nd strip.

• Place the curved strip on top of the first strip, overlapping by about ½”.

• Sew a row of decorative stitches along the curved edge.

• After you’ve finished sewing the first row of decorative stitching, turn the piece over and cut away the excess fabric from the back.

• Keep adding strips in the same way until you have a piece that is 10″ – 12″ wide.

• Make 2 or 3 fabric strip sets like this, using different color arrangements, to create different strip sets.

I really like the way the tension is automatically set for every stitch and each one I tried turned out perfectly.

Another accessory that I’ve come to love is the bobbin clip. Placing bobbin clips on bobbins helps prevent the thread from unwinding from the bobbin. You can also clip the bobbins together for easy storage.

Come back tomorrow to see how to use your decoratively stitched fabric to make the applique shapes for the leaf wall quilt. I’m sure you’ll really enjoy using the many decorative stitches on the Brother Luminaire sewing and embroidery machine!