Originally Posted by danshelpmeet
Thanks for the advice. I am using the same thread, just different colors and am using a walking foot. I may just need to rethink this whole thing and simplify what I want to do so that my machine will work better.
By "same thread", I meant the same color! Even on my wonderful Bernina, I will not attempt to use one color in the top and a different color in the bobbin when I am machine quilting. Some people have a machine that will do this, but most machines cannot maintain a perfectly balanced stitch through all the variations of a quilt sandwich.