You can get a guide for your walking foot if it didn't come with the foot. It's just a bar of metal that you put on your machine so that you can stitch evenly without marking the quilt. As for how far apart you quilt, you must read the batting instructions. Different battings will require different quilt spacing. Some of my battings instruction tell you to quilt 3-4 inches apart others have 8-9 inches apart. To find out how far to space your quilting,be sure to keep the wrapper that you batting came in.