Originally Posted by
cashs_mom
I made a top from Elizabeth Hartman's Dogs in Sweaters pattern. I started quilting it on my Juki 2200 with the walking foot on using straight vertical lines randomly spaced. I"m alternating stitching the rows top to bottom and then bottom to top. I'm having trouble with the quilting distorting the horizontal seams. It seems to be pushing them a bit so they look wavy. What is causing this? Could it be that the pressure on my presser foot is too heavy?
Sewing machine jacks (a term I wasn't familiar with but just figured out) can be used to get the foot over bulky seams. It's just a little piece of plastic that you put under the foot so that it doesn't have to "climb" over a seam. I've never used mine with my walking foot, but I think it would work, though it would interfere with the top feed while it was in place.
Reducing the foot pressure would be a better solution, but if that doesn't work....