If this is the same lady, the reason she's doing embroidery without a foot is because she isn't using an embroidery machine.She uses a reqular machine to do it. As far as being dangerous, I've seen on here many times where people ran the needle into their finger, they had a foot on the machine and it didn't stop them from hurting themselves. This is where you just have to be careful. The video that I saw, was really pretty. She does nice work.