...And that just what I want it to do, NOT plow fabric! If you read my
Wednesday post, my question to Leah Day was regarding using a walking foot. Every time I use one, the top fabric is pushed ahead, until at some point I get a tuck. This is exactly why I started FMQ, because I couldn't straight line quilt! Crazy I know. I have scoured the manual for some kind of adjustment, to no avail, but
Leah really felt it was too much pressure and there should be a knob or something on the machine to change it. I went in search of this elusive knob.
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| This fancy Baby Lock Ellegante, that I inherited from my Mom about 1 1/2 years ago, should be able to get up and do the dishes for me for crying in the sink! |
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| Nothing under pressure foot for pressure adjustments |
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| Nothing under walking foot. |
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| Just how to change out the foot. |
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| This little button on the bottom left of the screen that looks like a check list brings up a screen to change default settings. |
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| Default setting is 3 |
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| Put it on the lowest setting of 1. |
It was a dramatic change, the foot started walking, not plowing. Although I have to say, I would lower it even more if the machine would let me, it still wants to drag it's foot to some extent.
I was able to get all of the rest of the blocks joined together in rows for my
Storybook quilt. Thank you Leah and all of the rest of you that gave me such great suggestions in the comments. I really love this quilty blog community. You all ROCK!
