I guess I'm scratching my head over the concept of not dropping the feeds or somehow inactivating them. If you FMQ, the fabric is hand guided around in all sorts of directions. That's really hard to do if the feed dogs are tugging on the fabric at the same time. Maybe I read the post wrong? Even when I'm darning on my Janome 4000 (gasp... the 15 year old machine- a newbie!), I drop the dogs. Otherwise, I cannot darn worth a darn. <grin>[/quote]
I had a person tell me to just place and tape a business card over the feed dogs for FMQ, Kathie