Computerized crosshatch quilting around applique blocks - tutorial with Handi Quilter Pro-Stitcher

[@bethbyerssmall8260]

Thank you for your thorough explanation. I now feel I can give cross hatch stitching a try.

[@gingymakesquilts]

Go for it!

[@marysmoolca7968]

Best video I have been able to find on how to accomplish this topic. Thank you for your explanation.

[@kmoraghan]

Thank you for some great tips. Rather than using tissues, which I used to do, I gently roll the quilt on the bar with my hand ✋️. Loved the marked row too. Amazing 👏 This will work with chicken wire too❤️

[@kathrynmohr4025]

Wonderful video. Great info. Lovely quilt. THANK YOU!

[@bettyadkins3080]

Very informative!! Great tips for connecting rows and for lining up crop outs after advancing the quilt. Thank you!!!

[@gingymakesquilts]

Glad it was helpful!

[@laurelhimes7458]

Wow. Lots of technical info in matching up halves. I have an Amara. Don’t know if I could have figured all of that out. I tuned in to see more about cropping around appliqués. Great job. Thank you!

[@gingymakesquilts]

Glad it was helpful!

[@karispringer5002]

This is fantastic and just the video I needed today! Thanks for sharing! My stitch out today will now go SEW much better!!! 🧵💗

[@joyabbott9031]

Great information! Thanks. I love the tissue idea, neat trick.

[@patriciatowers7456]

Excellent video.

[@chriscox2188]

Thank you for this very informative video. I also have an Avante with the limited throat space, and I want to do a chickenwire E2E on a rooster collage quilt. There will be a lot of cropping, and I think this will really help. Nicely done!

[@karencapen8037]

Brilliant! Thank you

[@janfrost2723]

Excellent!

[@amygibbs677]

Thanks for answering my question! I'm also wondering how you compensated for shrinkage from the quilting as the pattern stitched out?

[@ShannaHens]

Genius!

[@purplemagicquilting]

Thank you for the video just what I need for the quilt on the frame. My question is this. After you get row 1&2 set and spaced and baselined, why can't you just duplicate to fill in to the bottom of the quilt?

[@gingymakesquilts]

Yep, that might have worked too!

[@makenziefrazier5494]

Thank you for all the great info! This may be a silly question, but I'm very new to pro stitcher. When advancing my quilt and my block that I do not want quilted gets cut off by like half, how do I mark the crop for only part of the block?

[@gingymakesquilts]

No, not a silly question at all! I ended up doing two steps in cropping the area for half a block. First do a multi-point area for the half of the block in the quilting area, so it's looks almost like a semi-circle for the blocks in my video. But then you don't want that solid line cutting through the middle of the block, so you have to do another area crop that just surrounds that straight line, and crop the insides but DON'T have it trace the edges. That way, it will do a start and stop every time it needs to jump that gap when quilting the design; kind of annoying to trim and bury the threads a bunch of times, but that's how I did it. I hope that makes sense!

[@susanmei9980]

What did you put in the centers of the Dresden plates? Did you do crosshatch there, as well? This is a beautiful quilt! I love crosshatch quilting! I don’t hv prostitcher, tho. Thx for making this video. 🌷

[@gingymakesquilts]

I did not do cross hatching on the Dresden plates. I put a computerized flower in the center of each one, and then I stitched in the ditch to outline the center circle and each blade. If you want to see more pictures of it completed, you can see this Instagram post: instagram.com/p/ChtC4MCJGS-/?igshid=N2ZiY2E3YmU=

[@SharonHyland-jd1vf]

I am trying to stitch out a crosshatch pattern a my rows are not lining up .I have set up the rows as you have shown in your tutorial using pro stitcher. The rows are showing they are perfectly aligned but when it stitches out the second row is out yet the pro stitcher still showes they should be lined up on the screens. When I mark my line between the rows they start off on the correct angles but by the time I get to the other end they are almost vertical. I have sent a message to handi quilter but have had no response. Do you know what my problem could be.

[@gingymakesquilts]

That sounds so frustrating! I'm not sure what's going on there. My rows weren't perfectly lined up, but it was close enough to look good. I hope Handi Quilter can help you out!

[@amygibbs677]

Hello! I set up the designs as you did using a crosshatch design from my creative stitches. I’m wondering how you get each row to connect? Once I had it all set up with the gaps between each row the rows would not save as one design and therefore I couldn’t advance and get it to move on to the next row. Please help!! Thanks

[@MichellePegler]

Hi! If the separated rows are not saving as one design, you would need to tap the Baseline button after creating and spacing them appropriately. Using this method there will still be a gap between the rows you'll need to fill in using point-to-point marks or ruler work.

[@amygibbs677]

@@MichellePegler thanks for your reply! If I already have all the rows there, will baselining connect them? I’m going to give that a try!!

[@helpful112]

Have you ever used crosshatch designs from other designers? Why 3 sisters? Why duplicate instead repeating vertically? TY

[@MichellePegler]

I researched different crosshatch options and chose the 3 Sisters one because it fit my throat space and didn't do much backtracking. The reason I duplicated the row rather than using normal vertical repeats is so I could leave that half row gap between that I would fill in later. It certainly would have been fine to do a vertical repeat, but the rows may not have lined up as well in the end.