Walking foot and spot reinforcement / Reinforcing stiches in quilting?

[HappyCampers]

Cant seem to find an answer in the manuals I have looked at . . .

Looking at a walking foot for quilting, I know you cant do reverse reinforcement stitches but I wonder if you can do spot reinforcement stitches?

My guess is not (because presumably each stitch makes the walking foot "walk"), so how do you start and finish quilting stitch runs?

[StitchinTime]

I have a Husqvarna machine and walking foot and it does a spot reinforcement stitch if I need it, however, with quilting these are not always required.

If your quilting stitch starts or ends at the edge of the quilt, the quilting stitch will be "locked" when you stitch around the edge prior to trimming for binding (or if you apply the binding without trimming!). If the quilting stitch starts or ends in the middle of the quilt, you will get a neater finish by bringing the bobbin thread to the top, knotting the top and bobbin threads together and burying the knot and ends.

Edit: A couple of links that might make how to start/stop quilting clearer.
https://freemotionproject.com/2014/01/how-to-start-and-stop-quilting.html
https://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/starting-or-stopping-a-line-of-machine-quilting-stitches.html

[Kad]

@HappyCampers

I start and finish each run of quilting stitches by pulling the bobbin thread to the top and leaving ends of approx 2". Then when I've finished quilting I sit with a  and tie& lassoo these ends into the depths of the quilt. Must say this process does encourage you to use looong quilting lines 

[Iminei]

If you start or end the quilting in the body of the quilt .. as you should when you start in the middle you leave thread tails which you tie off and then bury

Tutorial

you can either use the Lasso method as shown in the tut, which is ideally for threads too short to be threaded through a needle or leave them longer and using a big eye needle and bury them that way.

Some people start and finish quilting using a few very short stitches to secure, but then you must remember to alter your stitch length before quilting proper ...
or when quilting off the edges of the body of the quilt you can back stitch ...

Im sure Ive backstitched using my WF??!   :thinking:

[Acorn]

Hahaha - cross-posted with the likeminded @Iminei !   

For anyone who isn't familiar with lassoing the ends, @Iminei has a lovely tutorial here.  It speeds things up a lot and is really, really satisfying to do!!

[BrendaP]

Looking at a walking foot for quilting, I know you cant do reverse reinforcement stitches but I wonder if you can do spot reinforcement stitches?

A walking foot works by the lever which hooks over the needle clamp mimicing the frequency of the feed dog action with the upper/foot dogs.  You can still adjust the stitch length, so I don't see any reason why you can't drop the stitch length to zero for a few stitches.

[Iminei]

For anyone who isn't familiar with lassoing the ends, @Iminei has a lovely tutorial here.  It speeds things up a lot and is really, really satisfying to do!!

Yes it works really well but I prefer keeping my thread tails a bit longer and using the big eye needles ...

[toileandtrouble]

I use the lassoing techniques to pull in snags on clothing. It saves them catching, breaking and going into holes and improves the look of the garment a lot.

[Lilian]

I have always been able to backstitch with my walking foot.

[HappyCampers]

thanks for sharing everyone, this has been super useful