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05-10-2013, 07:19 AM
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It practice. You will learn to move your hands at a certain speed coordinated with the speed of your machine. I am guessing you have set your stitch length at zero and/or lowered your feed dogs if your machine does this. There are many tutorials on the board and YouTube videos. I can FMQ adequately on my dinky Brother mechanical machine. Also be sure to keep your presser foot lowered. And again, practice, practice and more practice!!!
05-10-2013, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Stitchnripper
I would go with zero because your hands are moving the quilt. The feed dogs don't help you. Are you using a FMQ foot for your machine? Sometimes called darning foot or open toe foot?
05-10-2013, 09:06 AM
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Before I bought my Bernina with the stitch regulator, I found what helped me the most was having a speed locked in. I found the spot where the speed was where I wanted it when in pressed the foot pedal and duct taped a piece of eraser on the bottom part of foot pedal the went down over the bottom. I don't know what kind of a foot pedal you have but if you have a way to put in a stop, you can control how far you can depress your foot pedal and it will help. I could press my pedal to the stop and then just worry about moving my hands at the right speed.
05-10-2013, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Tartan
Before I bought my Bernina with the stitch regulator, I found what helped me the most was having a speed locked in. I found the spot where the speed was where I wanted it when in pressed the foot pedal and duct taped a piece of eraser on the bottom part of foot pedal the went down over the bottom. I don't know what kind of a foot pedal you have but if you have a way to put in a stop, you can control how far you can depress your foot pedal and it will help. I could press my pedal to the stop and then just worry about moving my hands at the right speed.
05-10-2013, 09:33 AM
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Leah Day used to recommend lowering the feed dogs and now she doesn't. She said she found she has better control of her stitching with thebfeed dogs up. I'm taking a class with her from Craftsy and she mentioned this. Practice, practice, practice! Take some classes from Craftsy. There are several that cover FMQ.
05-10-2013, 09:40 AM
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Yes. On my Janome I like the slider about two thirds along and just use the on/off buttons - no foot pedal. On my Pfaff I set the speed control about half and it's 'pedal to the metal', lol.
However, the stitch length will still be determined by the speed you move your fabric - slow=small stitches and fast=bigger. Try to keep your movement as consistent as possible, particularly on curves. Good luck!
However, the stitch length will still be determined by the speed you move your fabric - slow=small stitches and fast=bigger. Try to keep your movement as consistent as possible, particularly on curves. Good luck!
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