do you sid with walking foot or fmq sid?
 

I have this monster of a hunter's star quilt that needs quilting. I say monster because I just can't get excited about quilting it. I have a quilting diagram in mind which includes sid, and I tried doing it with fmq foot and boy was that difficult! It just didn't want to move, so I changed feet and am sid with the walking foot, then will go back to fmq with the darning foot.

Does anyone have any success with sid without a walking foot?

i use my regular piecing foot - it sure is difficult to stay in the ditch!!!

I tried SITD with a FMQ foot and it was more like drunk driving in the ditch. Blech. Won't do that again.

I have an integrated walking foot on my machine, and one of the feet that came with it is like a foot with a 1/4" guide - but the guide is in the center ... PERFECT for putting it in the ditch and just stitching along!!

When I first started quilting I was quilting straight lines (cross hatching) with a regular foot and boy was it hard. Being a complete newbie (and a self taught one) I related to my dealer how hard that was when I had cause to visit him. He said "why didn't you use the walking foot?" ... the what? Needless to say I purchased one that day and have not turned back. Note: This was on my Husky machine, not the Janome which has the integrated walking foot.

Straight line quiltin with the darning foot is really, really difficult, to me. But I guess it's like anything else, you get better with practice.

Ditto! I do fine with my usual piecing foot. I just don't have that kind of control with my fmq foot.

Do you have the feed dogs down with the walking foot? And you use it just for SITD or for other FMQing? I have a presser foot that came with my SInger Quantum...for SITD and it has that little thing there to line up in the ditch...but of course...it is off slightly enough to make the stitch not go in the ditch....I have to pull it over and then try to keep that little line up thing lined up just to the side of the ditch..which of course is near impossible to keep it exact and the stitch in the ditch. I can do it with the open toed all purpose foot...but am trying to learn better FMQing and tried the walking foot...but it was so cumbersome...I must be doing something wrong as everyone else says it works good for them.....

I've only used either my reqular foot or the walking foot; never the FMQ foot. With the walking foot you leave the feed dogs as they are. You should be sewing on the lower side of the ditch to keep it going right. I'm waiting for Vikings new SITD foot to come in; it is interchangeable so it fits on my walking foot but the center hole is wider allowing you to use double needles to stitch both sides of the ditch at the same time. It'll make a nice look to the quilt.

I have done SID with both the walking foot and FMQ foot. I think the choice is personal. I like the walking foot myself.

I tried the FMQ only once. I made a mess of things!!!!