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Use 505 Spray and the NQ900 sewing machine to easily baste your project

by Christine Baker

Yesterday on QUILTscoial I reviewed some of the features that I love on the Brother NQ900 sewing machine. Today we’ll start sewing our needle roll featuring the hand-embroidered panel we created in my September QUILTsocial post – 3 easy ways to transfer embroidery designs.

A blue and white Brother NQ900 sewing machine is shown with a black piece of fabric on its extension table. Brother NQ900 sewing machine, HeatnBond Non-Woven Firm Weight Sew-In Interfacing, UNIQUE Medium Rick Rack, Off 505 Temporary Quilt Basting Adhesive Fabric Spray, Clover Chaco Liner Pen Style, UNIQUE Double Sided Cutting Mat, Omnigrid Ruler, UNIQUE quilting Clever Clips

The Brother NQ900 sewing machine

materials

fabric

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  1. Measure the finished size of the embroidered panel. Mine is 7½” x 19″.
  2. Cut a piece of fabric and a piece of interfacing this same size. I wanted my roll to be a little stiff (so that the needle packages don’t easily slide out) so I used HeatnBond Non-Woven Firm Weight Sew-In Interfacing. I also used this beautiful purple floral batik fabric as the inside fabric for my needle roll.

A rectangle of purple floral batik fabric and a same sized rectangle of white interfacing are shown on top of a green cutting mat. Brother NQ900 sewing machine, HeatnBond Non-Woven Firm Weight Sew-In Interfacing, UNIQUE Medium Rick Rack, Off 505 Temporary Quilt Basting Adhesive Fabric Spray, Clover Chaco Liner Pen Style, UNIQUE Double Sided Cutting Mat, Omnigrid Ruler, UNIQUE quilting Clever Clips

The inner fabric and interfacing are cut the same size as the embroidered panel.

3. Spray one side of the interfacing with Odif 505 Temporary Adhesive Spray and stick that fabric rectangle to the interfacing, aligning all the raw edges.

A hand is shown holding a can of orange and blue Odif 505 Temporary Adhesive Spray over a white rectangle of interfacing. Brother NQ900 sewing machine, HeatnBond Non-Woven Firm Weight Sew-In Interfacing, UNIQUE Medium Rick Rack, Off 505 Temporary Quilt Basting Adhesive Fabric Spray, Clover Chaco Liner Pen Style, UNIQUE Double Sided Cutting Mat, Omnigrid Ruler, UNIQUE quilting Clever Clips

Spray interfacing with 505 Spray

4. Baste the two layers together along the outside edges. I selected straight stitch #29 on my NQ900 and extended the length of the stitch to 5.0mm.

The blue key pad and digital screen of the Brother NQ900 sewing machine is shown with stitch #29 selected. Brother NQ900 sewing machine, HeatnBond Non-Woven Firm Weight Sew-In Interfacing, UNIQUE Medium Rick Rack, Off 505 Temporary Quilt Basting Adhesive Fabric Spray, Clover Chaco Liner Pen Style, UNIQUE Double Sided Cutting Mat, Omnigrid Ruler, UNIQUE quilting Clever Clips

Select straight stitch #29 and set stitch length to 5.0mm.

I used my favorite presser foot J – it has a clear front with an offset thread passage – to baste the two layers together along all sides about an ⅛” from the edge. You can see on the previous photo of the sewing machine screen, that when stitch #29 is selected, the machine tells you to use foot J.

A closeup photo of the needle area of a sewing machine showing the purple batik fabric being basted to the interfacing layer. Brother NQ900 sewing machine, HeatnBond Non-Woven Firm Weight Sew-In Interfacing, UNIQUE Medium Rick Rack, Off 505 Temporary Quilt Basting Adhesive Fabric Spray, Clover Chaco Liner Pen Style, UNIQUE Double Sided Cutting Mat, Omnigrid Ruler, UNIQUE quilting Clever Clips

Baste the two layers together.

5. Make some placement marks: Fold the fabric in half end to end and mark the center of the batik fabric rectangle. Fold each end into the marked center and mark these two lines. The fabric will now be divided into quarters. I used my rotary cutting ruler and a Pen Style Chaco liner to mark these three lines.

A hand is shown using a silver Pen Style Chaco Liner and a yellow gridded Omnigrid ruler to mark the center line of the purple batik fabric. A green cutting mat is shown in the background. Brother NQ900 sewing machine, HeatnBond Non-Woven Firm Weight Sew-In Interfacing, UNIQUE Medium Rick Rack, Off 505 Temporary Quilt Basting Adhesive Fabric Spray, Clover Chaco Liner Pen Style, UNIQUE Double Sided Cutting Mat, Omnigrid Ruler, UNIQUE quilting Clever Clips

Mark the center and quarter marks with a chaco liner.

Now that we’ve got the base of our needle roll inside assembled, tomorrow we’ll use the Brother NQ900  to make the pockets that will hold the needle packages in the needle roll. See you then!

This is part 2 of 5 in this series

Go back to part 1: 5 great features of the NQ900 sewing machine

Go to part 3: 5 simple steps to make pockets for a needle roll

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