quiltingshorttimer

and check out Angela Walter's Midnight Quilter series on Youtube (or you can subscribe to her website and get it). While most of us know her as a long arm quilter, this series is done using a domestic machine on the featured quilt.

Jeanne S

I have not yet learned FMQ, so only quilt with my walking foot. I find that straight line quilting (edge to edge) is easy, start with a vertical line down the middle of the quilt, then just work left and right, spacing the distance you want (I like either 1" spacing or 1/2" spacing. You can also do a lot with gentle curves, I start the same way with a center full length gently curving line, then work off that going right and left. I used this method to create the 'wood grain' quilting look on my Fancy Forest baby quilt. Here are a few other photos of simple walking foot quilting that I have done. As others have said, there are a lot of great Craftsy classes on walking foot quilting.[ATTACH=CONFIG]578094[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]578095[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]578096[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]578097[/ATTACH]

MadQuilter

Jacqui Gehrig (or is it Gehring?) has a great class on using the walking foot. Personally, I like the original class better than the second.

One take-away is to work slowly when using the walking foot. I recently was reminded of this when I sped up my SID and the layers started to shift. I slowed down and no more shifting.
When sewing with curves, make it gentle curves. Those go much easier than tight curves as you don't have to lift/readjust the foot as much.
It is REALLY important to have a taut sandwich to keep things from moving. When I use 505 basting spray, I iron the sandwich from both sides. When using pins, I generally pin fist-width apart and make sure I don't put any pins in the way of my quilting line.

jmoore

I've done cross hatching on a couple of baby quilts using my walking foot. Usually it is on a pattern like warm wishes so you just stitch corner to corner (diagonally) through the blocks so there is no need of marking...then I use the little bar that plugs in behind your presser foot as a guide for the next row(s). It goes pretty quickly on crib size quilts.

Mkotch

Make sure you buy a brand name tape. The cheaper ones don't stick as well, particularly with longer lines.

Mkotch

Beautiful quilts, Jeanne!

Mkotch

[ATTACH=CONFIG]578109[/ATTACH] Not sure if you can see this, but I SIDed the center diamond and then echoed that line of stitching by 1/2" (my foot width) in an angular spiral. The effect was quite modern - now hanging in a Manhattan office!

Sunny580

Loved this site for lots of ideas.

http://blog.petitdesignco.com/2012/1...-quilting.html

junegerbracht

Love your quilt and the quilting really ties it together.

callen

My walking foot came with 2 bars, one for the right & one for the left. They fit into either side on the back of my walking foot & once you decide how far apart you want your lines, you set the bar in place & sew from there. You place the bar on the line you just finished & go from there. The only line you have to mark is the first line. No need for masking tape or having to draw all the lines to finish your quilting. When you finish one side you just remove that bar & insert the bar for the other side & voila, before you know it, your straight line or even serpentine quilting is done without tons of marking. I use this all the time & does a great job !! Hope this makes sense.