do you sid with walking foot or fmq sid?
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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?
Does anyone have any success with sid without a walking foot?
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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.
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.
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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.....
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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.....
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I've done almost SITD with my FMQ foot. I outlined stars and didn't do too bad a job. I used a thread colour that matched the background and stitched on the background around the star. I found I could do a nice straight line going towards myself and to the right. I wasn't very good in the other directions so I turned the quilt. You might be able to use a thick straight edge to pull the foot along also. I am going to try that next and look for a thick straight edge ruler like the longarmers use.
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