sandpat

Oh and here is my FMQ mantra for squiggles.....Big Head, Little neck....Big head...little neck...It helps me keep the shape right.

pflum1

Memathomas,
I was the one who said I use wash-a-away to do meandering. You don't buy it printed on wash-a-away. Our can purchases a meandering pattern at the quilt shops (comes on a roll and looks a little like interfacing or light weight paper) and you trace it onto wash-a-away.

katiebear1

I have this happen when I forget to lower the foot. Since the FMQ foot sits above the fabric even in the down position I sometimes forget to lower it.

OHSue

I say "peace man", looks like two fingers and thumb, "dino shape" and "pistol".

sandpat

Those are good ones, I hadn't thought of it like that :lol:

dljennings

i did the same thing...doodles while on waiting "on hold" @ work...then when i liked what i was coming up with on a regular basis, i picked up some inexpensive black fabric and varigated threads in each of my kids favorite colors and went to town with it. then i cut the quilted pieces to fit my dining room chairs and used them up as chair pads. so i had something for my effort, but really didn't care if the kids or grandkids dumped spagetti on it... and each kid liked having thier favorite color!

Janis

HELP!!!!!! I don't know if any of you are still watching this thread, but will ask anyway. I took a class on FMQ last week and was using an embroidery foot that is plastic and enclosed. I want to get an open toe quilting/darning foot, but don't know what one to get. I have a Sears Kenmore machine 385 19365990. It does some embroidery, but the size of a zig zag. I found 2 open toed feet at Searspartsdirect on line, but don't know which I need, or if they will work with my machine. I tried calling the Sears Parts Dept, and can't get help there as they don't have a listing of the parts, they are just listed on line. The first one is for Embroidery/Sewing machines and the other one is for Verticle and Horizontal Sewing Machines...What are they? My machine was purchased in 2002, if that helps. In it's book, no open toe feet are shown, except for the walking foot. I know this is long, but can anyone help me decide if one of these will work, or if not, where I might be able to get one that will. I don't normally order on line, and went to the Sears store first, but they weren't much help. Thank you. Janis

sandpat

I'm probably not going to be a huge amount of help, but if your machine does do embroidery/sewing, then I think you would be ok going with that one. The good thing about Sears is that you could actually just get both...then return what didn't fit or you didn't like.....why are you getting the open toe? For FMQ...I use a closed toe (when using an open toe..sometimes the open arm part can get hung up in the threads, pokes the trapunto..etc.) When I am doing just straight quilting..a Walking Foot is MUCH better. Hope you get it figured out though...good luck!

Janis

I thought that with the open toe, I might be able to see what I was doing better. Or aren't you supposed to be watching that part? Maybe I should focus on where I want to go next instead. I have the walking foot for straight stitching. Maybe I should try working with that and the embroidery foot first and get used to them. I didn't think about being able to get caught in spots with the open toe foot, but it makes sence.

sandpat

Well, I think everyone develops their own way to do it...there is no "right" or "wrong" in my book. I generally do try to watch where I'm going next though more so than where I am...if that makes sense.

Maybe just spend some more time playing around and you will find what is comfortable for you...thats what you should go with :D