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    Old 10-30-2012, 08:59 AM
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    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?
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    Old 10-30-2012, 09:01 AM
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    i use my regular piecing foot - it sure is difficult to stay in the ditch!!!
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    Old 10-30-2012, 09:09 AM
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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.
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    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.
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    Old 10-30-2012, 09:11 AM
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    Originally Posted by QuiltnNan
    i use my regular piecing foot - it sure is difficult to stay in the ditch!!!
    Ditto! I do fine with my usual piecing foot. I just don't have that kind of control with my fmq foot.
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    Old 10-30-2012, 09:25 AM
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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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    Originally Posted by coffeebreak
    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.
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    Old 10-30-2012, 10:01 AM
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    I have done SID with both the walking foot and FMQ foot. I think the choice is personal. I like the walking foot myself.
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    Old 10-30-2012, 10:38 AM
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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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    I tried the FMQ only once. I made a mess of things!!!!
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