![]() Mark directly on the surface of the fabric with a stencil and chalk, fabric marking pencils, or disappearing fabric marking ink pens. You don’t need to follow a pattern when free-motion couching, but if you do want to follow a pattern there are several methods you can use. Marking a Pattern for Free-motion Couching After the cord is properly threaded into the foot, attach the foot to the machine. Next, guide the cord down through the center hole. Use the guide in the container to maneuver the cord in the side tunnel of the foot. Lower the feed dogs in preparation for free-motion sewing. Use thread that matches the color of your cord, and thread your machine normally. The cord guide helps feed the cord into the side of the foot and keep the cord from getting in the way while you are stitching. Read the directions in the container or check with your BERNINA store to find out which guide fits your specific model. In the package with foot #43 you will find two different sized cord guides and a cord threader for the foot. How to Thread and Mount Free-motion Couching Foot #43 The opening should be mostly filled by the trim or cording to allow the needle to catch and sew the trim to the surface. The trim or cord should move freely through the side guide and middle opening. Test the trim or cord in the foot before stitching to make sure it is a good fit. Couching with foot #43 works best with rounded cording about 1.5mm to 2mm thick, any trim that is too thin or flat used with this foot will not make contact with the needle for stitching. The cupped foot also glides smoothly over quilts when applying cord with free-motion quilting. ![]() The base of the foot is cupped to allow for smooth movement over cord already stitched to the surface of the project. The foot includes a guide on the side to help smoothly feed cord through the center hole, which holds the cord in place for the needle to pierce the cord. Free-motion couching foot #43 is specially designed to allow for precise free-motion while couching cords about 2mm in width. Combine this technique with free-motion stitching, and you have a really fun way to add texture and lines to any project. It’s like having an ever-available personal assistant - for just 62 cents a day.Couching refers to the technique of adding cords, yarns, or other heavy threads on the surface of material. Motion is so powerful, it took us over 12 months of non-stop coding to create it. It limits meetings, and it ensures you have meetings at the optimal time. It protects chunks of time for deep work. And it creates flexible time blocks on your calendar. And it handles all of the laborious, tedious task planning and meeting scheduling. ![]() ![]() It helps you follow and live by all of the proven productivity advice. So we trained Motion to be your productivity pro and personal assistant. Or, an expensive personal assistant to manage it for you. All of this planning takes a lot of time and effort. They guard large chunks of time on their calendar for deep, focused work. They limit meetings and only schedule them on certain days and at certain times. They block time on their calendars to complete every task. Hyper productive people religiously plan their day minute by minute. To develop Motion’s Intelligent Calendar, we carefully studied how the most productive people in the world get more done each day.
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