Walking foot
07-09-2013, 09:36 PM
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Walking foot
I hope someone can help me with my problem - my walking foot sits properly on my sewing machine but the needle is not quite in the middle where the grove is and it's a machine on which I cannot move the needle. It's very annoying when I try stitch in the ditch. Maybe someone had the same problem and found a way to fix this. Thanks for your help!
07-09-2013, 09:47 PM
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It depends on the distance a small piece of washer so that it is fitted on washer, foot then screw. . If it needs to move to the right no idea.
I don't do stitch in the ditch as I find it to difficult and spend most time ditch hopping. Why not try just a shadow of seam.
I don't do stitch in the ditch as I find it to difficult and spend most time ditch hopping. Why not try just a shadow of seam.
07-09-2013, 09:53 PM
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This same thing drove me nuts on my last machine (but not on the new one, thank goodness)! I was finally frustrated enough that I took a white "twist tie" from a box of bags. Then I hooked the tie onto the front of the walking foot, and could do that because my "foot" had an opening in each side of the foot -- kind of a "slashed open from end to end down the middle of the foot. Hope that's as clear as mud. Anyway, I secured that in place, and then very carefully used a permanent marker to make a dot on the white "twist tie" that lined up with where my needle really was located. Crude, I know, but I just couldn't think of anything else. I tried string, but that wouldn't stay in place. The twist tie really was the only thing I could find that I could secure in place.
Hope this doesn't sound too weird. It really did work for me!
Hope this doesn't sound too weird. It really did work for me!
07-10-2013, 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by MacThayer
This same thing drove me nuts on my last machine (but not on the new one, thank goodness)! I was finally frustrated enough that I took a white "twist tie" from a box of bags. Then I hooked the tie onto the front of the walking foot, and could do that because my "foot" had an opening in each side of the foot -- kind of a "slashed open from end to end down the middle of the foot. Hope that's as clear as mud. Anyway, I secured that in place, and then very carefully used a permanent marker to make a dot on the white "twist tie" that lined up with where my needle really was located. Crude, I know, but I just couldn't think of anything else. I tried string, but that wouldn't stay in place. The twist tie really was the only thing I could find that I could secure in place.
Hope this doesn't sound too weird. It really did work for me!
Hope this doesn't sound too weird. It really did work for me!
07-10-2013, 04:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MacThayer
This same thing drove me nuts on my last machine (but not on the new one, thank goodness)! I was finally frustrated enough that I took a white "twist tie" from a box of bags. Then I hooked the tie onto the front of the walking foot, and could do that because my "foot" had an opening in each side of the foot -- kind of a "slashed open from end to end down the middle of the foot. Hope that's as clear as mud. Anyway, I secured that in place, and then very carefully used a permanent marker to make a dot on the white "twist tie" that lined up with where my needle really was located. Crude, I know, but I just couldn't think of anything else. I tried string, but that wouldn't stay in place. The twist tie really was the only thing I could find that I could secure in place.
Hope this doesn't sound too weird. It really did work for me!
Hope this doesn't sound too weird. It really did work for me!
07-10-2013, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by thimblebug6000
My machine needed a servicing when that happened & he did something with the timing & it's centered now. Is you machine computerized?
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