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I have a hard time staying in the ditch so most times I quilt on the diagonal. Painters blue tape works great for marking and it hides a lot of my small mistakes.

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Originally Posted by Tartan (Post 6581103)

If your seams don't line up perfectly, just do a few stitches in the ditch until you can continue. I like the serpentine stitch for "stitch over the ditch" myself.

Now this sounds like something I could do!! I like the idea of stitch "over the ditch"... with a pretty serpentine... I once used a decorative stitch "over" the ditches and it worked well. but this would give one some good practice, but with an eye to where one was headed... hmmmmm.... good idea....

yep, I wouldn't try straight stitching in the ditch. curving lines are soooo much easier and look good too. I use my walking foot and just move the quilt to the left and then right as I go along. try it out on something.