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.... :)
I am definitely not good with SID ... but can do FMQ on the more modest sized quilts I do. FMQ has more flow and errors are usually much smaller and seldom noticed. The more you practice the easier it is ... because it flows gently. SID is much more exacting for me.
Can you tell I am most worst critic?
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