stop start button or foot pedal?
#42
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: northeast NE
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Only have the button on my Husqvarna-Viking embroidery machine and use it for embroidery and winding the bobbin. Otherwise, I use the foot pedal cuz sometimes I like using both hands to hold my fabric where I want it under the presser foot. To each his own.
#43
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Chapel Hill
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I don't have the button on any of my current machines, but I don't know that I would use it as that would involve having to lift my hands to turn it on and off. I like the tactile process of speed control with my foot pedal.
I am in search of a knee lift for my Bernina 830 record as it was lost by the previous owner.
Cheers, K
I am in search of a knee lift for my Bernina 830 record as it was lost by the previous owner.
Cheers, K
#45
Using it just for bobbin winding as it seems to give a nice, even threaded bobbin. Too many starts and stops in quilting to use it for piecing. For FMQ'g I do use the speed control which gives me nice even stitch lengths.
#48
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 1,231
I think I am missing something. If you use the start/stop button, don't your hands (or a finger) need to leave your work while you reach for it? Especially when I am FMQ, I like both hands on my work when the machine starts, so I use the pedal. When I applique I need both hands on my work and sometimes go one stitch at a time, so I use the pedal. I am very interested in the advantages of the start/stop button because lots of you use it, and I don't want to miss out.
The main benefit I get from it is comfort. I can sew with my feet on a footstool, or my legs crossed, whatever position is best for my back. I don't get the back aches and neck strain that I used to get. I was skeptical at first, but now I can never see myself going back to a foot pedal...it is just an unnatural way to have to sit. I suggest going to a sewing center with a quilt sandwich, and try out one of the demo machines.
#49
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 2,376
I use the foot pedal because I like to have my hands on the fabric. I've tried to use the knee lift but the old habits kick in from when I had that as the presser foot on an old machine. I wish I could get the hang of the knee lift as I was doing a lot of straight line quilting and turning and the knee lift would have been wonderful for that.
#50
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 7,583
I use the buttons exclusively. I wasn't sure I would like it when I first got my machine, but I love it now. If I'm sewing along or fmq I tend to operate the button with my knuckle because it it so close.
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