My stitch in the ditch foot has a built-in walking foot function, so I haven’t had to choose between them. You would want to use the stitch in the ditch foot when you need a guide to keep your stitching line exact, but sometimes when you’re stitching on a thick set of layers, it would be more important to have the walking foot function to keep the layers feeding through evenly, if you have to choose between the two. You can always guide your stitches by eye (some people are better at this than others), but you can’t always make the layers of your quilt feed through evenly without a walking foot.

The binding covers up the raw edge, so I’ve never noticed any issues with the backing. Give it a try on something small and see what you think!

Hi Kathy, My site doesn’t have any printing facility itself, but I use a browser plugin that converts a blog post to a PDF which you can then print out. The one I use is called Print Friendly & PDF with Firefox. You have to add it as an extension to your browser. The printer settings on my laptop also have an option called “save as PDF” which I can choose as the “printer” when I print a page. You may have that option on your computer, too.