Originally Posted by diannemc
How do you keep your stitches the same when free motion quilting? When I move it around some of my stitches get big..I hardly move it and it stretches the stitches..---_ __---- sort of like that...when I put feeddogs up it won't go in circles???
When you have feed dogs up It grabs and moves the material as the presserfoot is holding it down. I have a pressure regulator on my machine for the presserfoot from 1 to 3 with 3 being the tightest for regular sewing. You can do freemotion with feeddogs up if you have this on your machine. I did it this way with the pressfoot on 2 and sometimes 1 when I started stippleing. I finally graduated to feeddogs down and presserfoot on 0. Your hand movements will finally get in a rythym with your speed. It takes Practice,practice, practise and more practice. I love the Freemotion.
Good luck!!!!
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