Thread: free motion quilting with a Singer Rumina 3400

Originally Posted by bj

On my new one the feeddogs lower. And I don't know how to do fmq, so it wasn't a problem with the other one. It wasn't until I got the new one that I realized what that plastic plate was for! (O: I like my touch and sew, but I've only ever had Singers, so nothing to compare to. I'm not good enough to justify spending big bucks on a machine. Plus it's strictly for fun for me. I don't do commissioned quilts or quilts that I might sell.

I had always had Singers till I discovered the Vikings when I worked at the old Joann store where the dealer was. Then on my break one day she demonstrated the Designer I. Now that is all I will own. Yes they are expensive, and while I do sew for people I rarely use the embroidery stuff for customers. I enjoy sewing for gifts and just love experimenting with all the stuff the new machines do. My new love is quilting with the huge embroidery hoops on the Designer Diamond.

and i've done FMQ with them up too!!

I was also going to say that you can FMQ with the feed dogs up. I have done it and had no issues. Some people prefer to do it this way.

I must say the FMQ is a real challenge to me anyhow. I guess I wanted to find out that if the dogs could go down all my troubles would go away! Right now I find that the machine is like a wild horse that gets away on me.

I had a machine like that and I used a piece of the temp plate plastic material that I bought at Joanns......worked like a charm

I'll try that.