How to Quilt>Darning Foot

A Special Machine Quilting Foot
for your Home Sewing Machine

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For those of us who want to use our home sewing machine for machine quilting, there are a couple of different presser feet that can help. One is a Walking Foot, and the other is a Darning Foot.

Check out the article about the Walking Foot for more information.

A Darning Foot

Darning foot for free motion machine quilting.

A darning foot will allow you to do free motion quilting. Like the walking foot, the darning foot bounces up and down on the quilt as the needle goes up and down.

The difference is that with a darning foot, you lower the feed dogs on your machine and guide the quilt.

Since there is no contact between your quilt and the machine between stitches, you can move the quilt in any direction you would like.

It is simple to make curvy quilting lines using a darning foot, guiding your quilt in circles or waves or any variation creating feathers, leaves, or just meandering around.

There is no doubt that both types of feet take some practice to get used to in order to create beautiful machine quilting stitches.

But the first step in becoming an accomplished machine quilter is having the right tools.

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Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren

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Penny is a quilter of more than 27 years who seeks to interest new quilters and provide them with the resources necessary to create beautiful quilts.

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