I was just playing around with my Horizon and tried out a really fun and cool technique using the Border Foot. The foot guides your stitching so you can have parallel lines of decorative stitches but you can also use it to make a decorative border using a combination of stitches.
I stitched out this example on my practice sandwich to demonstrate. (I didn't line up the starting point so the sides are not mirror images of each other but you get the idea.) You sew the first line of stitches to make the right side of the border. Then by moving the fabric so that those stitches are within the guide marks on the special foot, you stitch the left hand side of the design. Once that is done you center the needle between the two rows and add the decorative stitches right down the middle. It really makes a beautiful border! As you can see in the samples in the video below by Janome, even just simple rows of regular decorative stitches can be used in a variety of ways to add a lot of detail to a quilt or other project!
It is just so fun to discover and play with these awesome features on my machine - it opens up endless creative opportunities!
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