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Onebyone 05-19-2018 05:46 AM

I use Machinger gloves, smooth and hold the fabric taut while I machine quilt. A quilt in a LA will be taut so that is what you want to mimic. I do all my machine quilting with a walking foot, curves, wavy, spirals, circles, and shapes.

leighway 05-20-2018 03:49 AM

Sounds like the pressure issue might be the problem....can you release it a bit? I do a ton of straight line quilting with my walking foot and there is no distortion. Also, i always increase the size of my stitch very slightly. The norm on my machine is 250. I go up to 275 or 280 and with the weight/drag/pressure foot combination, the stitch comes out close to normal.

bkay 05-20-2018 07:52 AM

Patrice, I use my 401a for walking foot quilting. I also use warm and natural. I spray baste. I set the pressure on the foot about as low as it will go. I set the stitch length at about 8 stitches per inch.

In my vast :o experience of three lap quilts, I've had no problems.

bkay

Mitty 07-19-2018 04:20 AM


Originally Posted by cashs_mom (Post 8060054)
I made a top from Elizabeth Hartman's Dogs in Sweaters pattern. I started quilting it on my Juki 2200 with the walking foot on using straight vertical lines randomly spaced. I"m alternating stitching the rows top to bottom and then bottom to top. I'm having trouble with the quilting distorting the horizontal seams. It seems to be pushing them a bit so they look wavy. What is causing this? Could it be that the pressure on my presser foot is too heavy?

Sewing machine jacks (a term I wasn't familiar with but just figured out) can be used to get the foot over bulky seams. It's just a little piece of plastic that you put under the foot so that it doesn't have to "climb" over a seam. I've never used mine with my walking foot, but I think it would work, though it would interfere with the top feed while it was in place.

Reducing the foot pressure would be a better solution, but if that doesn't work....


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