Originally Posted by MTS
Originally Posted by MadQuilter
The walking foot is not designed to work backwards. That is correct.
Yikes! For real?
I go backwards all the time with mine (Bernina) because I'm too lazy to turn the quilt. My entire bee does it - Pfaffs, Janomes, Vikings.
I'm going to hope (fingers crossed ) that if it were a problem for a particular machine, it would make some horrible noise in warning.
Maybe it's just the generic feet?
Yikes!
My Bernina walking foot says you can do reverse when the stitch length is up to 3, not when longer. I too do it all time, well not reverse stitch per se, but decorative stitching that goes reverse and forward.