Originally Posted by Fancy Nancy
my machine stitches fine doing piecing - no skipped stitches etc. But when I put my FMQ foot on it stitches along fine for a few stitches and then the top thread quits picking up the bottom thread and end up with one very long stitch or quits stitching all together. have rethreaded machine, bobbin, etc but no help? any suggestions?
Be sure your feed dogs are down. Find a comfortable speed on your machine (and make a note) then dont try moving the fabric too fast. You have to find your groove...the perfect machine speed combined with the perfect movement of the fabric. All that can cause the skipped stitches. I hate to tell you this but it really is practice practice practice. Just keep pluggin along:)