Originally Posted by Joanieu
even on the new machine - yesterday and a little bit this morning I have tried machine quilting SID around the border of one of my quilts. I tried with and without the even foot, even tried using the quilting stitches (I have a Brother SQ9000) and even just the regular straight stitch. I kept having to use the ripper and remove the stitching.. Jack the Ripper even attacked me a few times. I do not know what I am doing wrong, which is probably everything. So I decided that I will just continue to piece by machine and bind using the machine, but the rest will be hand quilted. I thought I would try machine quilting so I can get some of the quilts done faster, but not working out... Plus even if I did get it to work, I would still hand quilt most projects anyway. Thanks for letting me vent.... :)
Don't give up just yet Joanie! I was where you are just a few of weeks ago. I just had to step away from it when I got so frustrated. I agree with others..... practice on small sandwiches..... mutiple times. Get to know how your machine reacts to various tensions, threads, etc. with various feet. It has helped me tremendously. I have not finished quilting my quilt yet.... but I will get it done. I am determined <and hard headed enough> it is not going to "whoop" me! You can do it!!