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Old 02-23-2010, 07:18 AM
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Lisa_wanna_b_quilter
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I know from previous posts that some of you are quilting beautiful quilts on the cheaper machines such as the Brother XL2600. I'm hoping you can give me some tips to improve the look of what I'm doing.

When quilting straight boring lines with a walking foot, my machine periodically seems unable to move the quilt through. I have to kind of shove it along and end up getting teeny tiny stitches.

I have the stitch length set as long as possible. When I practice on a smaller item it works great, but when I do a larger quilt I have this problem.

Is my machine just to puny for the job? I don't have an extension table, but have created one from shipping boxes and still have the problem. Would a "real" extension table make that much of a difference?
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