Originally Posted by
Tartan
I have a knee lift but seldom use it. I guess I am just so used to using my foot pedal and hand raising the foot .
I did not like my knee lift when I first got it. But, I found it did totally come in handy when I was doing applique around a wall hanging. I could keep both hands on my project, lift the foot with the knee lifter and turn it, lower it back on down and keep going. I did struggle at first trying to coordinate it and now I love using it even for piecing triangles. I can lift the foot enough to get the fabric under the foot and then lower it and start stitching without having to manually left the foot. OK, on my new Bernina, I can't even manually lift the foot! No foot lever!