quiltingcotton

I have a Baby Lock Accomplish for my main machine. On that machine there is a knob for adjusting the pressure on the foot (the part that rides on top of the fabric). I - thus far - have always just lowered the feed dogs completely and used a free motion presser foot when doing the quilting. I also always do QAYG (quilt as you go).

I'm looking forward to trying this new technique. I think it will help me as at times I tend to move the fabric too fast, especially around curves and it changes the stitch length or skips them entirely. This (new to me) way, with leaving the feed dogs up and lowering the foot pressure against the fabric I think will help eliminate that issue for me, especially since I like to follow drawn designs I put on the quilt for quilting it on my domestic.

I used to use rulers/shaped quilting rulers to do domestic machine quilting, but found it frustrating because it quickly tired my hands and arms from holding the rulers down. So, I started to draw out the shapes/designs with the rulers and then did free motion following those drawn out designs, or totally free motion with meandering designs . This was a little bit easier on my hands, but I still needed the hand and arm pressure to constantly push or pull the fabric through the design.

I think with the Control Quilting Technique that Pauline shows in the QISS, will be much better in that the machine will be actually moving the fabric and doing the work, while I would only need lightly guide the fabric to follow the design.