Originally Posted by
Tartan
When quilting straight lines, you can use your walking foot but unless you go in only one direction, you will need to turn your quilt. Turning a quilt to do the stitching is hard.
You can FMQ straight lines by having a ruler foot and a thick ruler. This allows you to keep the quilt in the same position but quilt in any direction you want sewing along the ruler. ( Just like the long armers do but on your sewing machine) Since the feed dogs are down and you are controlling the stitch length yourself, I sometimes get an oops.
Ah, yes, that makes sense - not having to turn the quilt around. I did a quick google search on ruler quilting and found one needs a special foot for that. But for the ruler, would an ordinary, thick plexiglass quilting ruler do the job or is there also a special one needed?