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Today I suggest you take a closer look at the special paws for sewing machines, which are used for edging.
At this time, the market for accessories for sewing machines offers its consumers several types of edging feet. Here are the most popular ones, suitable for many sewing machines.
- This is the edging foot. It is also called an edging device or a foot for edging a cut with bias tape. It is equipped with a funnel for folding the bias tape and guiding it around the edge of the fabric.
- This is an edging foot with a ruler.
As you can see, these paws differ sharply from each other in appearance.
Sometimes they, however, like the paws of the “same color” or, as they say, the same oak acorns, can differ from each other in the way they are attached to the sewing machine.
This means that before purchasing such devices, you need to make sure that they really fit your sewing machine.
It is best to make a purchase in a company store that sells sewing machines and accessories for them, of the exact brand as your sewing machine. Well, if the company store is very far away, you need to conduct market research, consult with the seller, double-check his information and only then buy paws for edging.
The legs differ from each other and in the way the edging is performed.
How to use the bias tape foot?
We start edging by attaching this foot to the sewing machine.
The bias tape edging tool only works with one size of tape. And it produces finished edging with a width of 6 mm. Therefore, the “blank” for the binding should be 24 mm wide, folded with the wrong side inward, and with the fold ironed exactly in the middle
and with the tip cut off at an angle for convenience.
The length of the bias binding should be 5-10 centimeters longer than the cut on which the edging is actually made. This additional segment is needed to practice presser foot settings on it.
The prepared binding can be inserted into the edging foot in several ways.
1st method.
Starting to move the sharp corner of the tape along the right rounded wall of the funnel, we gradually move deeper into the funnel further and further.
In the slots located on the same right wall of the funnel, you can carefully push the tape along the wall of the device with a needle or pin until it comes out of the funnel.
2nd method.
This method threads the binding into the funnel a little faster.
In the open binding, near its top, at a short distance from the edge, we pass a needle and thread through the fabric.
And we secure it there with a knot made at the end of the thread being threaded.
Now we thread the thread from left to right, between the layers of the inwardly curved edges of the funnel and under the main part of the foot.
Directing the thread along the right rounded wall of the funnel, we pull it up, and with it we stretch the binding along all the parts of the device.
We have nothing to worry about. As you can see, the edging device will do everything itself.
And when the first millimeters of folded binding come out of the funnel, all this splendor needs to be fastened together by simply lowering a needle into the fabric.
On a “fresh” foot, just purchased for edging cuts with bias tape, everything is set to what is called default.
And when the first centimeters of the molded binding have gone under the main part of the foot, you can already clearly see that the needle of the sewing machine is positioned relative to the front of the foot with the funnel so that when performing a straight stitch, it will be laid exactly in the middle of the border, along the already folded and bias tape wrapped around the cut.
And this is not gut! Firstly, such edging will be incorrect and ugly. And secondly, the edges of the trim that are not too wide, turned inward, may not be captured by the stitching.
If the “ability” of your sewing machine allows you to move the needle position the desired distance to the left, then this should be done.
Well, those sewing enthusiasts whose sewing machine does not have such capabilities should, using a screw located on the foot,
adjust the moving part of the foot so that the needle sews closer to the left edge of the binding.
And since such a foot uses only one size of tape, once you set it up, you may never return to this procedure again.
This is where those extra centimeters of tape were needed, for adjustments.
Well, it's time to insert a piece of fabric between the layers of already folded binding. And to make it more convenient to do this, when performing the last stitch, leave the needle in the material and raise the foot.
It remains only on the left side, exactly into the gap between the edges of the device wrapped in a funnel and carefully insert a piece of the edging fabric close to the foot.
And you can still add a line.
But there is a third way to start edging the cut. When both the bias binding and the cut being processed by it are simultaneously inserted into the “labyrinths” of the foot.
To do this, we connect the edge of the cut being processed and the sharp corner of the binding to each other by threading a needle and thread through them and securing it there with a knot.
And now, as in the second method described above in the article, we thread the thread between the layers of the inwardly curved edges of the funnel and under the main part of the foot.
This is of course the most quick way thread everything as needed and start working right away. But for this you need to carefully ensure that all the details fall into their designated places. The trim sections should line up along the rounded wall of the funnel, and the fabric section should pass between the edges of the funnel folded inward on the other side.
If everything falls into place as it should, then the trim sections will immediately wrap the fabric section
All that remains is to set the position of the needle or adjust the details of the foot relative to the needle and you can immediately start stitching.
In order for the binding to lie smoothly and beautifully around the cut being processed, you must always hold the binding and the piece of fabric inserted into its fold together. They need to be held in the direction of the conventional line coming out of the funnel of the device.
Here is a piece of fabric edged with bias tape, this is what it looks like from the front side of the part,
but from the wrong side.
The bias tape edging foot works great with solid tape! strips of fabric cut on the bias.
This foot works poorly, if not disgustingly, with binding sewn from individual strips. The foot produces finished binding with a width of only 6 mm. And even if the seam that connected the parts of the bias tape went through the foot, and the sections of the tape were bent inward in this place as it should, it still looks good finished product such a connection would be disgusting.
Therefore, you need to either prepare a whole strip of fabric for the bias tape, or sew the tape to the cut.
The bulky, unwieldy bias binding foot works great on straight or slightly curved cuts. It is better to attach binding to very concave and very convex cuts, for example, to the sometimes very steep transition of the neckline between the back and the shelf
How to use the edging foot with a ruler?
Now let's get acquainted with another foot - the edging foot with a ruler. It also makes an edging of the cut, like the previous foot, but unlike the first one, it can make an edging on the processed section with a width of 5 to 20 mm!
Unlike the previous foot, this one does not fold the edges of the binding inward. And he works with finished binding (with the edges ironed towards the middle).
Therefore, before you start edging with a foot and a ruler, you need to prepare the required width of the binding, using one of the methods described and a length of 5 centimeters more than the cut being processed.
And since we already know the width of the binding that we will attach to the product, now we can use the front adjustment screw to set the size of the groove to the size of the binding on the foot.
Attach the foot to the sewing machine.
Insert the end of the prepared binding into the grooves on the foot,
and insert a piece of fabric into the gap between the layers of binding and the grooves of the foot.
We make the first puncture with a needle of the material and look at the needle.
The stitch of the sewing machine should securely and beautifully secure the edging material around the cut being processed. It should run along the binding - neither in the center nor along its outer edge, but at a distance of 1.5 - 2 - 2.5 mm from the inner edge attached to the product.
Therefore, those whose needle moves horizontally to the left and to the right must set the desired needle position.
Well, those fans of sewing at home, whose machine does not make such “body movements”, using the adjusting screw located on the back - main part of the foot, should adjust the position of the front parts of the foot relative to the needle.
The edging foot with ruler works for more than just bias tape. You can insert ribbon, braid, and edging into it and treat the cuts with these materials to prevent fraying.
Features of working with this edging materials can be read in the article
The wider the edging (from 1 cm and wider), the easier it is for a foot with a ruler to work with the binding made up of separately cut strips, and the more accurate the finished edging on the product is.
The ruler foot, like the bias tape edging foot, is also very clumsy and therefore works just as poorly on very curved cuts.
In order to skillfully handle these two paws, you must first, as they say, get good at it and follow all the individual rules for working with each of them. And then, in the end, both of them will produce the same result, a neatly executed edging.
And there are also feet for edging that are attached to overlockers. Will be needed get to know them too.
Edging sections using special edging feet is just one way to attach the binding to the section being processed.
So let's get acquainted
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1. Open the zipper.
2. Place the right half of the zipper facing the right side of the product.
3. Bend the teeth to the right and lower the foot so that the teeth lie in the groove of the foot to the right of the needle. Sew until you reach the end of the cut mark.
4. Place the left half of the zipper facing the front of the left side of the product. Make sure both parts of the product are level.
5. Bend the teeth to the left and lower the presser foot so that the teeth lie in the groove to the left of the needle. Sew until you reach the end of the cut mark.
6. Install a standard presser foot on the machine and stitch the seam below the zipper.
Blindstitch foot.
The blind stitch foot is suitable for discreet hemming of items made from thick and medium-weight materials.
Set of two feet for 5 and 7 tucks. Description of work:
Set of two feet for 5 and 7 pintucks.
Description of work:
1. Select a straight stitch.
2. Cut small piece tissue at an angle from the side of the processed cut.
3. Tuck the cut corner of the fabric into the hem hole on the foot.
4. Lower the presser foot and make a few stitches, bringing both threads back. In this case, the fabric section should turn up and fit into the hem hole on the foot.
5. Continue stitching, moving the fabric forward evenly.
Teflon foot.
Description of work:
1. Set the zigzag width on your machine to match the distance between the button holes.
2. Turn off the lower conveyor or install the darning plate.
3. Place the button on the fabric according to the markings, so that the button is fixed / Madeira temporary fabric adhesive is able to hold the button while the work is completed /.
4. Slowly lower the needle bar until the needle enters the left hole of the button. While lining up the holes of the button, make a slow stitch so that the needle then enters the right hole of the button.
5. For buttons with 4 holes: move the needle to another pair of holes and follow the same steps.
Foot for satin stitches.
Choose from a decorative, finishing or zig-zag stitch.
The stitch length should not exceed 0.5mm.
Loosen the upper thread tension.
The foot is designed for working with figured stitches, monograms, appliqués, and can be used for quilting.
Blindstitch foot.
The blind stitch foot is suitable for discreet hemming of items made from thick and medium-weight materials. Now there is no need to hem the product manually.
>Job Description:
1. Turn the edge of the product inward to the width of the hem.
2. Now unfold the fold so that the edge of the product protrudes 1 cm.
3. Place the product under the foot with the wrong side up and the fold running along the guide, as shown in the picture.
4. Position the needle so that it fits exactly into the fold of the fabric, catching 1-2 threads of the fabric.
The zipper foot is universal.
Set the presser foot depending on whether you sew with the left or right side lightning.
Lower the foot at the beginning of the zipper so that the stitching lies along the fold of the zipper teeth
Set of two hemming feet – 4mm and 6mm.
With these feet you can hem medium-thick materials: napkins, curtains, linen, etc.
Description of work:
1. Select a straight stitch.
2. Iron the beginning of the future seam to a width of 4mm or 6mm, depending on the size of the presser foot installed.
3. Place the folded edge under the foot and sew a few stitches.
4. Leave the needle in the fabric to fix it. Raise the foot and insert the edge of the fabric into the curler of the foot.
5. Lower the presser foot and continue sewing, holding and guiding the edge of the garment.
6. Make sure that the fabric does not go under the right half of the foot.
Roller foot.
The roller foot is perfect for working with so-called difficult fabrics: leather, nubuck, knitted fabrics, etc., while preventing sticking and the formation of creases and folds.
Choose a straight stitch or any decorative stitch.
Foot for sewing in piping.
You can use a ready-made edging, or make it yourself from your own material.
Description of work:
1. Place the finished piping along the seam line on the right side of the product.
2. Place the second piece of the product on top, face to face.
3. Place the fabric and piping under the foot so that the piping goes through the groove on the underside of the foot.
4. Sew with a straight stitch. The groove on the underside of the foot is a guide for passing the edge during sewing.
Foot for sewing on braid.
With this foot it is easy to sew on braid, sequin thread, and elastic. The foot easily guides the braid through the hole in the front of the foot.
Overlock foot.
The overlock foot is designed for overcasting edges. A thin plate on the foot prevents the edge being overcast from curling.
With your overlock or zig zag stitch selected, set the zig zag width to 5 and turn the wheel by hand to make sure the needle does not hit the presser foot.
How to use additional feet for JANOME and FAMILY sewing machines Hidden zipper foot This unique foot will help you sew a hidden zipper easily and quickly. Description of operation: 1. Open the zipper. 2. Place the right half of the zipper facing the right side of the product. 3. Bend the teeth to the right and lower the foot so that the teeth lie in the groove of the foot to the right of the needle. Sew until you reach the end of the cut mark. 4. Place the left half of the zipper facing the front of the left side of the product. Make sure both parts of the product are level. 5. Bend the teeth to the left and lower the presser foot so that the teeth lie in the groove to the left of the needle. Sew until you reach the end of the cut mark. 6. Install a standard presser foot on the machine and stitch the seam below the zipper. Blindstitch foot. The blind stitch foot is suitable for discreet hemming of items made from thick and medium-weight materials. Description of work: 1. Turn the edge of the product inward to the width of the hem. 2. Now unfold the fold so that the edge of the product protrudes 1 cm. 3. Place the product under the foot with the wrong side up and so that the fold runs along the guide, as shown in the figure. 4. Position the needle so that it fits exactly into the fold of the fabric, catching 1-2 threads of the fabric. Pintuck foot. Description of work: Using a pintuck foot and a 2 mm double needle, you can quickly make pintucks on thin material. Straight stitch length 2-2.5mm. Pintucks are created by sewing with a double needle, while the material is fed with a pintuck that fits into a recess at the bottom of the foot. Insert the tuck into the notch on the bottom of the foot to guide the next fold. Edging foot Edging with bias tape is sufficient in a simple way to give the edges of the product a smooth and neat appearance. To do this, you need to cut a 24mm wide bias tape. Description of work: 1. Cut the beginning of the bias tape diagonally. 2. Place the resulting sharp corner of the binding into the snail and pull it out behind the foot. 3. Adjust the edging device or move the needle so that the needle enters the tape at a distance of 1-1.5 mm from the fold edge of the folded tape. 4. Place the cut edge of the piece to be edged between the folded binding and into the cutout of the edging device. The bias tape will automatically wrap around the piece as you sew. Hemming foot 2mm. Hemming the edges prevents the edges of the fabric from fraying and thanks to the presser foot, a beautiful, durable seam is obtained. This foot can be used to finish the edges of scarves, shawls, clothing and home decor items made from lightweight materials without first ironing the edges. Description of work: 1. Select a straight stitch. 2. Cut a small piece of fabric at an angle from the side of the cut being processed. 3. Tuck the cut corner of the fabric into the hem hole on the foot. 4. Lower the presser foot and make a few stitches, bringing both threads back. In this case, the fabric section should turn up and fit into the hem hole on the foot. 5. Continue stitching, moving the fabric forward evenly. Teflon foot. This foot is made of a special polymer for grinding materials that are prone to difficult movement with a metal foot - vinyl, artificial and Genuine Leather, nubuck, etc. During operation, it will slide over the surface of the fabric, performing any stitch. Gathering foot. With this foot you can make gathers on fabric or adjust braid with a gathered effect. You can also increase or decrease the fit by adjusting the thread tension. It is better to increase the stitch length / 3.5 - 4.5 /. When performing an operation using this foot, the fabric will shrink. Topstitching foot. Select a straight stitch with a center needle position. Straighten the fabric and make sure the presser foot follows the seam line. Lay the next line parallel to the previous one. Using the foot is very convenient when wasting items. The foot is also indispensable when adding decorative stitches along the seam. Foot for sewing in piping. You can use a ready-made edging, or make it yourself from your own material. Description of work: 1. Place the finished piping along the seam line on the front side of the product. 2. Place the second piece of the product on top, face to face. 3. Place the fabric and piping under the foot so that the piping goes through the groove on the underside of the foot. 4. Sew with a straight stitch. The groove on the underside of the foot is a guide for passing the edge during sewing.
