I just looked at amysquiltingadventures.com and she now has for sale a convertible FMQ foot set made by Janome that fits the 1600p (their machine that is similar to the Brother PQ1500s and Juki's straight stitch only machine as well). I may start saving up my pennies to get this combination!

Rob

I have the Westalee ruler foot and I love it. I did a 1/4" line either side of my whole quilt top sashing with it and then used the Janome open toe FMQ foot to fill in with large pebbles. (So, they were originally supposed to be circles...so shoot me.;)) Also, the customer service from Westalee was fantastic.

Watson

Thanks for the feedback on the Westalee foot. I think I am going to call Baby Lock to find out if they will come out with their version of the ruler foot soon. If not, then I will get the Westalee.

I have a Brother...and for me, I have learned to get used to the "hopping"" as a sort of stitch regulator for me...hard to explain, but every "hop" is a stitch, and I get into a thing with it, where I know how how big the stitches will be by how fast I move my hands related to the "hop"...I don't mind the hopping foot, because that's what I learned on..but I am always open to a better method!!!

I have the Pfaff QE 4.2, I like the "Sensormatic" foot for FMQ. This is what it looks like:http://www.pfaff.com/en-US/Accessori...ee-Motion-Foot
This is the spring open toe foot, I like it too. http://www.pfaff.com/en-US/Accessori...on-Spring-Foot
Sharon in Texas

I have the same type of foot that Watson shows. It came with my Elna. It works much better than the hopping foot.

My FMQ has improved a lot since I got this foot. I actually have real stitches now, instead of little itty-bitty ones. And curves. Which is important when doing about 10 000 circle-ish shapes on my quilt top. I only wish I had had it when I started this quilt top because you can definitely tell the difference.

Watson

Just to show the difference, here's an example of one of the lines with the old foot....don't laugh.
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And with the new foot...still not perfect, but better.
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I learned with no foot at all, back in the early 80's since that was how my Brother VX560 manual said to do embroidery-- I always worried about stitching my fingers LOL!


Rob

[QUOTE=rryder;7467559]I learned with no foot at all, back in the early 80's since that was how my Brother VX560 manual said to do embroidery-- I always worried about stitching my fingers LOL!

YIKES !!!! I saw a video on youtube of someone embroidering without a foot, and it was gorgeous! Looked very hazardous, though!