I've been in a quilting slump, but this morning I made myself attach my walking foot and sew some seams in a pillowcase I had cut out for my grandson. I know that the walking foot is designed to keep the fabrics from moving, but when does one really improve the finished product. Strip quilts? SID?

I use a walking foot on all my kids charity quilts. I follow the seams and make them like a comforter. Yhis way they stay togrther when washed and get hard use. I have never used it for anything else.

I use my walking foot for anything over 2 layers of farbic, unless I am specifically FMQ'ing.

The only time I use my walking foot is when I'm attaching the binding to the front of a finished quilt so that I can turn it to the back and hand stitch it on.

A walking foot is designed to keep the bottom layer and the top layer moving along at the same pace. Think of a walking foot as an upper set of feed dogs.

I use mine for just about everything but FMQ, where feed dogs are not needed.

This. My machine (Pfaff) has a built in walking foot that I use all the time. The only time I can't use it (other than FMQ) is when I use the programmed decorative stitches. I know some machines sew the deco stitches with the walking foot, but mine can't, which gives me some difficulty when I want to use a stitch for a binding.

Straight stitching, binding, sewing bulky things like purses/totes.

I use mine for straight-line quilting and for sewing the binding to the front of the quilt. I don't like using it to piece with as it is rather large and bulky.

I use mine when sewing long pieces of fabric such as borders and binding and when doing straight stitch quilting.

It also comes in handy when trying to lign up a pattern or plaids.