Does anyone know what reinforcement stitch I should use for stitching in the ditch with my walking foot on my Baby Lock quilting machine? I do know that I can not reverse stitch with this foot. Maybe a zig zag stitch would work. I am not sure.

Welcome from Minnesota!

Could you put several stitches in the same place to reinforce?

Hello and Welcome to the board :D:D:D

I sometimes start out with 3 stitch length set at .05 and then change to the stitch I want to use to SID with :D:D:D

Does your machine have a locking stitch? If so, use that. Otherwise, do as amma says and reduce your stitch length to .05 or as low as it goes and then lay down 3-5 stitches on top of each other. Then, with the needle still down, reset the stitch length to whatever you want and then sew away. When you get to the end, reverse. Decrease the stitch length then do 3-5 stitches to lock it.

I can backstitch with a walking foot on my sewing machine - is the Babylock different?

I can too - and that's exactly what I was wondering?

I just stitch 3 - 5 stitches in the same place. On my machine it's a button I push and the machine does this.

I broke 2 W.F. doing this, finally figured it out...think about it...the gears are going forward, not backward. If you can do it then :thumbup:

Hi Mini,
I have a Babylock (Elleure). If you scroll through your stitch selector you'll probably find a straight stitch with a P above it and a small dot. The P signifies it is a stitch for piecing and the small dot represents a locking stitch. That is the stitch you should be using.

Thanks everyone for the useful information.

Monica
Colorado