Originally Posted by
Prism99
When doing FMQ with feed dogs up, you still need to change the stitch length to 0. When you do this, the feed dogs don't move and won't be trying to move the quilt forward.
I didn't do that...I leave the stitch length alone, leave the feed dogs up, and it still slides around just fine because the foot isn't putting pressure on the fabric constantly. I honestly don't feel any difference/drag with the dogs up or down.
Might be one of those things you just have to experiment with. I've only done FMQ on one machine (Janome 6600) so maybe it's different from machine to machine...?