Good morning from Maine USA!

[kbg123]

Good morning from Maine! My name is Karen and I am new to felting this past year. I have fallen in love with stitching on my felts! Look forward to learning free motion techniques - from what I know so far, this technique takes LOTS of practice! Can't wait to get started and learn the proper way to put some control behind my free motion stitching. 

[lyn]

Hello Karen and welcome to the forum. Stitching on felt is fun and it just takes a little practice - dive in!

I always use stabiliser on the back of the felt to do machine free motion stitching as I find the results better than when not using it. You can use stitch-on or iron-on.

Remember to lower the feed dogs and fit a darning foot. Before you start to stitch, bring the bobbin thread up through the felt so that both threads are on top then you won't get a tangled mess underneath.

To pull the bobbin thread up through, here's a quick video from youtube:

youtube link

After doing that, remember to put the presser foot lever back down before you start stitching - sounds obvious I know but it's easily forgotten when you're using a darning foot and then you wonder why the machine won't stitch properly.

[MTRuth]

Hi Karen,

This is our free forum which you are welcome to enjoy. But the classroom is a different website. Please take a look at the email that I sent you just now with the link to the class website.

[Shepherdess]

Welcome, I do hope you share some pictures of what you do in class. We love to share the good, the bad and the ugly or our felting fun.

[Antje]

Hi Karen
A welcome from me too. Now that you have made contact on the forum (even if by accident) please keep us posted with your progress. We love to see what folk are up to and from my experience you will get a wealth of positive feedback from the members.

[Pandagirl]

Welcome Karen! Please share your creations with us. Have fun!