I heard of someone quilting w/o dropping their feed dogs. so I tried it and am soooooooooo pleased with the results. T
marla
Originally Posted by klgreene
Originally Posted by Bev
Originally Posted by Annya
Did you know you can stipple quilt with out dropping the feed dogs. I do it all the time, it gives me more control on where the quilt is going without it sliding every where and the stitches are better than when I drop the feed dogs. Try it out on something else first, but I would either sew around the blocks in a SID method and stipple then if you want THEN remove the other sewing if you want to. That way it wont have to be re-pinned.
Annya:
What size stitch do you use, and what about the tension? I'm interested. Maybe I'll try this on something small to see how it looks to me.
8-)
My feed dog doesn't drop unfortnately. And I've tried to freehand and just can't seem to make it look nice, or even.
I use the #4 length and I keep adjusting the tension. For some reason my stitches are smaller than I'd like, but I don't have an expensive machine. It does the job I need.