Originally Posted by Jim's Gem
Also, depending on your machine, you do need to lower your presser foot. My Pfaff had a little notch to set the presser foot at for "free motion" and I missed that almost every time I first would start something.
Just finished a quilt freemotion stippleing for the first time. On my machine the presserfoot has to be down. I use a foot called the big foot. You can see backward,forward and either side really well. Also I had the same thing on the back on my practise block. After I set everything back to normal settings,dropped feeddogs and dropped the presserfoot down, it all turned out great. Keep trying this is the fastest way to quilt, I love it. Now to do the meandering. Good luck.
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