I'm not going to be much help. I couldn't quilt around anything with a walking foot. Mine wanted to go straight and that was all I could make it do. I went back to my regular foot and just fought it out. In retrospect, I have an older Singer that I used to darn things on it by releasing the feed dogs, using an embroidery hoop for the project and then I just moved it around.
I know there are others on this board that can help you. There might be something specific that you need to do to your machine. Why don't you post what machine and model you have? Good luck with your project.
And remember....YouTube has videos on just about everything to do with quilting. That's my first goto place to try to solve a problem.