Walking foot - Found!

 Found my Walking foot yesterday! Before I tried to use the Ditch foot to quit my String Quilt I decided to have one last look for my Walking foot. I had quickly looked for a replacement one on Amazon and was horrified at the price - over £54! My intention was to phone my Sewing Machine repairer today and see if he could find me one at a cheaper price. The one I couldn’t find cost me just over £11 in 2011!

About seven years ago I was gifted another Janome machine that had belonged to my friend Margaret’s sister who had died and Margaret was sorting out her belongings. It has been my emergency machine for when my other one was being serviced and I have used it a few times. When I found the empty Walking foot box on Saturday I read the note inside, written by me, which said the Walking foot was on Mary’s machine. I discarded the message because it didn’t make sense to me, I couldn’t ever remember putting it on Mary’s machine! Although I did remember thinking about doing that and keeping it permanently on Mary’s machine to save me the trouble of struggling to fit it on my machine every time I want to do some machine quilting. Anyway, yesterday, as one final attempt to find the Walking foot I looked at Mary’s machine and lo and behold, there it was!

So I swapped out the machines and happily quilted my String Quilt.