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Originally Posted by colorfulom
(Post 6936428)
Great words of wisdom from Jacquie Gering in her Craftsy class on Creative Quilting With Your Walking Foot (my favorite Craftsy class so far!) - "it's called a walking foot, not a running foot." When in doubt, slow down.
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Yep! Haste definitely makes waste on my machine and also on my cutting board!
Originally Posted by ManiacQuilter2
(Post 6936368)
I find that my stitching is better at slower speeds, so is the accuracy of my piecing. Speed never gets you anywhere safely. You want to do your best.
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I just finished quilting a baby quilt using my walking foot, rather slowly. I had problems with dragging, so it was very difficult to SID because I had pieced baby strips and the pastel colors were too much alike for my poor vision (just recently learned I have glaucoma). Also, the walking foot did not feed very well for some reason, it has never failed me before, but then this is my first try using it on a quilt sandwich. It had a small folded lump at the end of strips where there was a horizontal section to stop at. I always make sure to put the bar in place. Maybe I did not have the sandwich stretched enough.
it is not a generic walking foot, but a Bernina foot, like the machine I was using. |
I sew at a normal speed. My walking foot won't let me sew fast.
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I was taught in Home Ec class to always sew slow when using a foot other then a regular stitch foot. I signed up for the Jacquie Gering Crafty class but haven't watched it yet.
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I took the class at craftsy and even as an advanced quilter I learned a bunch. It is definitely worth it, particularly for a beginning quilter.
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My sewing machine manuals say to go slower than when using the free motion foot. I use it mostly to sew on the binding.
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I sew slower with the walking foot or with the free motion foot so that I can be as accurate as possible. I use the walking foot for quilting, especially SID. Sometimes I do SID with the free motion foot. The length of the rows of stitching determine which foot I use. Right now I am involved with a project that switches back and forth from sewing to quilting. It is hard for me to put the walking foot on my Bernina machine (vision problem). So, I have put up a second machine to do the regular sewing with. I would like to take that Craftsy class-maybe after the holidays.
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Originally Posted by GrammieJan
(Post 6936541)
I just finished quilting a baby quilt using my walking foot, rather slowly. I had problems with dragging, so it was very difficult to SID because I had pieced baby strips and the pastel colors were too much alike for my poor vision (just recently learned I have glaucoma). Also, the walking foot did not feed very well for some reason, it has never failed me before, but then this is my first try using it on a quilt sandwich. It had a small folded lump at the end of strips where there was a horizontal section to stop at. I always make sure to put the bar in place. Maybe I did not have the sandwich stretched enough.
it is not a generic walking foot, but a Bernina foot, like the machine I was using. |
Originally Posted by colorfulom
(Post 6936428)
Great words of wisdom from Jacquie Gering in her Craftsy class on Creative Quilting With Your Walking Foot (my favorite Craftsy class so far!) - "it's called a walking foot, not a running foot." When in doubt, slow down.
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