Originally Posted by
deemail
i like not having to purchase expensive notions that seem to me to have too specific a use.... get your cording foot on (some have one, three, five or seven guide holes in them). Put crochet cotton in one of the center holes ONLY.... put ball of cord between your feet in a basket or bag.... now set machine to stitch in a zig zag that is going over the cord, clearing about 1/16th of inch in each side of zig zag width.... medium to long stitch length.... the cording foot will keep you from sewing thru the cord and it will never break the way a sewing thread will.... when finished sewing, just pull the crochet cotton, seam to the next pc and done....
I do it this way, too...but, I take a glass jar...spagetti sauce, fruit, whatever you have. Put the jar between your knees and let the cording feed freely