Desperate help please with quilt
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Desperate help please with quilt
I do hope some one can help me. I am trying to do a quilt panel, it is with clouds, flowers and owls on it. I am having a lot of trouble sewing around the clouds and flowers as they are a bit intricate. Should I just scream and cry or is there an easy way to outline them. I am trying to do it with a walking foot, but find I cant seem to follow the outlines, Any help would be so fantastic.
Idle Di
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I'm not going to be much help. I couldn't quilt around anything with a walking foot. Mine wanted to go straight and that was all I could make it do. I went back to my regular foot and just fought it out. In retrospect, I have an older Singer that I used to darn things on it by releasing the feed dogs, using an embroidery hoop for the project and then I just moved it around.
I know there are others on this board that can help you. There might be something specific that you need to do to your machine. Why don't you post what machine and model you have? Good luck with your project.
And remember....YouTube has videos on just about everything to do with quilting. That's my first goto place to try to solve a problem.
I know there are others on this board that can help you. There might be something specific that you need to do to your machine. Why don't you post what machine and model you have? Good luck with your project.
And remember....YouTube has videos on just about everything to do with quilting. That's my first goto place to try to solve a problem.
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I do hope some one can help me. I am trying to do a quilt panel, it is with clouds, flowers and owls on it. I am having a lot of trouble sewing around the clouds and flowers as they are a bit intricate. Should I just scream and cry or is there an easy way to outline them. I am trying to do it with a walking foot, but find I cant seem to follow the outlines, Any help would be so fantastic.
Idle Di
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Do you have a FMquilting foot? With that you can just move the fabric forward and back without turning the quilt. My feed dogs aren't dropped. Just set the stitch length on 0. Think of your needle as a paintbrush. The the problem is you move the canvas, not the brush, but it isn't difficult. Practice on paper first.
#9
I only use a walking foot if I'm doing a bunch of straight lines. You'll do much better with a free motion quilting foot (also known as a hopping foot) which will allow loose and tight curves or circles. Good luck!
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