Tartan

When lines of straight stitching cross over each other, they can cause puckers I am extra vigilant as I get close to an intersection to make sure the layers are all staying nice and flat before stitching over a line. I always start in the middle of a quilt and stitch out to the edge in all directions with my walking foot on my machine. If my quilt has regular blocks with sashing, I do a large grid in this manner before FMQ inside the boxes.

thimblebug6000

I usually use a "3" stitch length for straight lines & I also go quite slowly. Try & stitch slow enough for all 3 layers of the sandwich to feed through at the same time & there shouldn't be any puckers on the back. That's not to say you have to plod along.... just do an even slow to mid speed.

newbee3

STITCHING IN the ditch you could use a walking foot which might help normally you start in the middle the entire length of quilt then turn quilt and stich in the ditch going in opposite direction. keep doing this until you have the length done. now do the width the same way.

bmanley

Thanks you all for you help. I am having wonderful results now since I pinned my quilt and using my walking foot. No puckers at least not yet.