Ladies, all of the photos posted, and many of the descriptions given, are of regular feet, not WALKING feet. A walking foot has built-in feed dogs that advance the fabric from the top in conjunction with the machine feed dogs advancing the fabric from the bottom. It keeps the layers of the quilt sandwich moving under the needle together. It prevents puckers and pulling and is well worth the $70 or so that it costs. It is also called an even feed foot and looks like the one below.
They all have very wide feet and that can be really annoying. You cannot use throatplate guides when the throatplate is covered with quilt and tiny marks, if any, somewhere on the foot are much harder to see than the edge of a foot would be. Thus the desire for a quarter inch walking foot. :?
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