Originally Posted by
nanna-up-north
I had problems with tucks and it didn't seem to matter what the method was for sandwiching. I discovered......
It was my sewing machine. Even with a walking foot, I'd get tucks on the back. So.....
I now use a 1916 Singer 127 handcrank. ..... no tucks, beautiful stitches..... problem solved. And for FMQ, I use a Singer 1952 15-91.... drop the feed dogs, use the darning foot..... again, beautiful stitches, no problem. It was that $$$$ machine..... I just use that for mending now.
....handcrank for quilting? That has got to be tricky..........maybe when you were using the $$$ machine you were not guiding in sync with the feeding/ stitching, thus folds, tucks...and now with hand ranking I would imagine you have to go slower and therefore not causing folds, tucks....I don't know, just trying to picture it...