I guess I'm a little confused about FMQ. I posted a topic a few days ago about a book called Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy by Eva A. Larkin and how I thought it did look "fairly easy". I tried this weekend and of course got VERY frustrated, VERY quickly. I was just going to give up, but for some reason I decided to put the feed dogs back up and try it. It turned out great! Not perfect of course, but I was very happy with what I did on my first try and my DH thought it was really good too. So I guess my question is why do you drop the feed dogs and can you leave them up and still FMQ? It didn't really explain it in the book. It seems to work for me pretty well with them up. Am I missing something?