I did not realize that sewing machines had that feature with the walking foot, mine is an 'add on', alpha, I think, it cost me around 100.00, but so much heavier than the one that came with the machine. Which incidentally fell apart. My machine is a baby lock, I really like it. Some features on other machines have caught my eye lately. Another one, is the Janome, it has the button you push on top and do not need to use the foot pedal when free motion quilting. Now I read this, oh well, will stick with my Baby Lock, for now.