Question Thursday #9

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

5 Responses

  1. Mike Pearson says:

    Regarding the puckering with the walking foot, I read somewhere on some blog that using a zipper foot is an excellent alternative and puts less pressure on the sandwich. I've never tried it but found it an interesting suggestion.

  2. Cindyroo says:

    Thanks for the binding tip. I'd been taught to sew binding on the front & turn it to the back. Of course, that left me hand sewing all that binding down if I wanted my front to look nice. Your tip has come at a great time as I'm finishing off my UFO's. I was not looking forward to all the hand sewing. This will be much faster and I'll get to play with all those fun stitches. Thanks so much for all your great tips! You're a quilter's true inspiration!

  3. Here are a couple of other ideas to try on the walking foot dilema if Leah's idea does not fix all~ experience talking… things I have learned….

    Make sure the arm of the walking foot is attached correctly to the needle shaft nut,one time I had the walking foot arm ABOVE the needle shaft nut instead of on the nut and it was TOO MUCH pressure.

    Is there an adjustment you can make on the feed dogs? My machine only has up and down, but you have a beautiful computerized machine…

    Check the foot ankle height to make sure it is in the correct place

  4. Anne says:

    Thanks for answering my questions, Leah. I'm now practising those stops to reposition my hands! I have a terrible habit of forgetting that I'm allowed to stop!

  5. Malini says:

    Congrats Leah! And your nomination is well deserved. I have already voted for you :-). Lets keep our fingers crossed.
    Good luck!
    Malini

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *