I have a decorative stitch that looks like a snowflake that I used in a straight line
around Christmas trees. Turned out great, even if I say so myself! You have to make sure the quilt is well supported, though, or the decorative stitch can become distorted. With my snowflake stitch, it didn't bother me, because snowflakes are all different!

Try it with a sandwich block first and see how you like it. Have fun.

I used decorative stitches on a quilt made of all strips. The problem I ran into was my quilt dragging and not allowing the pattern to fully work. It still looks ok if you don't look too closely. No way am I trying to rip out embroidery stitched patterns! If you could use your walking foot it would work much better.

No, it will look great. Have a friend that uses only the serpentine stitch to do all of her
quilting with the machine, because it looks good and she doesn't have to worry about
a straight line. I had a machine, one time that could do the serpentine stitch, wish my
machine had it now.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]338338[/ATTACH]I can't see it on the black on black. It's down the center of the narrow black sashing. The red will show a lot more. You can hold down control and use the up arrow or the center dial on your mouse to enlarge the pic.

We had a program in our quilt guild by a lady that did decorative stitching on all her quilts and they were great and unique. We all thought it was a very good idea and so now alot of us are doing it also. She said go for it and just start in and pick one and do it. She had one quilt with each block a different decor. stitch. Very nice indeed. No arrest there either!

Everyone but me seems to know what the surpentine stitch is. HELP !!!

I have a Brother EX660 and the instructions say not to use the walking foot an any stitch that has any backward movement.

I do it on every quilt I make....with my Janome 6600.

It is frustrating when there is conflicting information about using the walking foot. My LQS where I purchsed my Babylock Espire said I shouldn't have used the walking foot for the zig-zag stitch (I ended up with very inconsistent density of the zig-zag stitches--a few inches of really dense stitches then a portion where the stitch was nicely spread out and back again)--it should only be used for the straight stitch. That seems a bit limiting.

Also, when I use decorative stitches, the machine moves around the fabric so much that it is virtually impossible to keep it going in a straight line so I only used zig-zag on my most recent quilt as you go quilt.