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12-06-2011, 10:16 AM

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jigs1354

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Location: Tennessee

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HI, If I'm reading you right you are doing some sort of Decorative Stitch & using your walking foot. I do a lot of Dec. Stitching but never using the walking foot. what I do is, do each single block before I put the top together has no batting. inside either, or you can do the Dec. St. on a whole finished top before you make your sandwich. I do this because it's easier & the results are the same, and you aren't sewing over a thickness to make it drag. The top and the final sandwich do this gets quilted at the end anyway. I find this is so much faster & less stress on me & the sewing machine.
Another thing, you can't pull on the quilt under the feed dogs without messing up the stitching. It's just a matter of remembering not to pull it. My way, if you mess up on a single block very badly you can always make another one. Another thing, I've done is get some thin iron on batting, and iron on each block or iron onto the whole top, you are getting the indentations you like around your decorative stitching. I do find that I just don't use that as much either and when I put my quilt on my LR it's beautiful when I'm finished from the all over quilting pattern I've used. Hope this helps & we are all beginners at some point.
jigs1354

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Originally Posted by gardnergal970

I was working with my walking foot this morning and noticed that it tended to slow down if it came to a place where seams met. Only this did I kind of help the foot to keep it moving and the stitching was smaller there.

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