Hi Malindaann, The walking foot is for quilting.When you have top,wadding and backing together it will feed all the layers together, it isn't really made for piecing. I bought a quater inch foot for piecing which is a great help in getting an acurate seam allowance when I started off. You are a novice now but you will soon learn, this forum will be a great help as will you tube which has many sites teaching how to do various designs. Good luck, hope you get to enjoy this wonderful world of patchwork and quilting more and more, you will always find help from the very generous bunch of quilters, just ask. Love Letty.