Sewing Machine Feet

abrakadabra · Post by **abrakadabra** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:58 am

Ihave finished my first quilt top. I would like to quilt it by machine. I'm not sure which foot to buy. Hancock's has specialty sewing feet on sale. Should I buy a walking foot with the quilt guide or the free motion guide foot. I have a Brother CS-8060 that can use a low shank. Which one is easy to use? Any suggestions?

Susie · Post by **Susie** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:20 am

I don't have your kind of sewing machine (mine is a Janome) but I use both of those feet. I use the walking foot for straight stitching (in the ditch, putting on binding etc.) and I use the darning foot with the feed dogs down (which must be the free motion foot) for stippling and meandering which I do in the borders. So..in a nutshell...it depends on what you want to do. Hope that helps.
Susie

quilterbee · Post by **quilterbee** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:03 pm

I like the FM foot best, Amie

(free motion)I have Janomes,too

Tiggersmom · Post by **Tiggersmom** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:24 am

Depends on which type of quilting you want to do. Personally I would buy them both. the walking foot will help you also do the binding besides straight line quilting and the other one is for meandering, etc where the feed dogs are down. Eventually you will want them both, imho.

quilterbee · Post by **quilterbee** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:17 pm

Did you finish your quilt? Did you find a FM foot? Amie

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calicopuzzle · Post by **calicopuzzle** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:46 am

If you can, buy them both. Each has it's own great usefulness and each will be fun to work with and become necessities someday....BUT, be sure that you bring one of your feet with or check to make sure the generic feet will fit your Brother....Some machines are fussy and won't take just any foot but the one manufactured for your brand.

CindyB · Post by **CindyB** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:59 am

I agree - buy both! I use the darning (same as free motion) and the walking foot when I quilt.

1quiltinnana · Post by **1quiltinnana** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:34 am

I have the walking foot and the darning foot...I would get both. You will want to do straight quilting lines with WF and meandering/stippling with the darning/stipple foot. It takes practice in the beginning.

Polishqltr · Post by **Polishqltr** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:45 am

I have a Brother CS-8060 and think it is great. I use both feet.
Have had no problem with getting any foot to fit. In fact I have a
Pfaff from (I think) 1950 with a whole slue of feet and they all
fit my Brother. My only problem with this machine, is the throat is
so small I cann't machine quilt a large quilt. I have done a
wall hanging 40 x 40. I used the foot pedal to help quilt it and had
a hard time pushing it thru the 5 in. space. Kept hitting the sewing
button, had the machine beep at me, and kept telling the machine to
"shut up". My poor cat thought I was yelling at him, and he would
run to his scratching post and use it out of frustration.

kristilynette · Post by **kristilynette** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:23 am

Hi everyone - I am new to machine quilting. I have a Brother machine also. I just quilted a small quilt and had a lot better luck with my walking foot than with the darning foot. I had NO control with the darning/free motion foot. I suppose it just takes practices, practice, practice. Any helpful tips would be appreciated. My stitches seemed to jump from small to Long and I was very jerky with it. HELP. Thanks ahead of time, Kristi

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