Walking Foot
06-03-2015, 11:05 AM
#31
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: East Arkansas
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I keep my walking foot attached to my singer in a cabinet all the time and only use it for binding and/or sewing looooong pieces of fabric together. When I piece I use my feather weight and a magnetic seam guide for a 1/4" seam. BTW my walking foot is a generic that I bought in the early 90s and it still works very well. Think I paid $25 for it then.
06-03-2015, 02:44 PM
#32
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Texas
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Originally Posted by Jeanne S
I agree. I see no need to use it on piecing, and it is slower, and harder for me to keep the 1/4" allowance accurate. But I always use it for quilting, bindings or anytime I am sewing with batting layer.
This is me. I love it for quilting, of course, and use it for binding. But it would drive me crazy to use it for piecing because I can't see the fabric as well, and also it's too slow.
06-10-2015, 06:44 PM
#33
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Fingerlakes area, NYS
Posts: 225
Originally Posted by sinceresissy
I had posted asking about puckers in the quilt when sewing on the binding and I had a lot of great replies. One of them was to buy a walking foot. I bought one at Missouri Sewing Machine and used it the other day on a baby quilt. No puckers. I am very pleased. I didn't have to stay stitch or glue. Happiness. It worked so good. Now I am wondering about using the walking foot for just sewing things together or do I need to change to the regular foot. I can play around with it but it is so much easier to have you all tell me what you have done. Ha! Is it coming across that I might be a bit lazy? Or just in a hurry to finish up.
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