On Sep 21, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
My question is this: I hand baste all my seams before sewing them and therefore, have never needed a walking foot. Does anyone here get any better use of walking feet than basting? (The walking foot is one I did not buy.) If so, for what?
I got a walking foot when I machine-quilted something. The batting changes the game entirely — even with a light spray adhesive to "baste" the layers together, the loft of the batting will still let the top & bottom layers shift.
If I was going to hand-baste the quilt first, I might as well hand- quilt it. With a walking foot I can go freestyle with the stitching.
It depends on the level of accuracy desired — some people are ok with machine quilting on a historic garment that would have been done by hand. I assume there are 19th and 20th C garments that were originally machine quilted.
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