Absolutely the best tutorial I've seen on the 'walking foot', she explains in simple terms while getting the advice across to the viewer, it's exactly how I want a tutorial to be, it's not convoluted in any way 👍👌
Great video! Clear audio and visuals, clear demo, concise, nice voice, and showed exactly how to mount and use and how it works. Now I totally get it. If you use a regular presser foot, the top and bottom sides of fabric/ vinyl/ satin/ leather or other slippery fabric may not work in harmony moving parallel to each other. The top may slide forward and the bottom lag behind, or vice versa. With this attachment, the material is secured both top and bottom and forced to move as one, making the stitching even and with no extra tension on fabric. One thing to note: There is no reverse stitch on the walking foot. It moves forward only. To secure the ends of the stitch, turn fabric around instead.
Excellent tutorial. lowering the needle was a very bright idea. You have a lovely voice. other channels don't show this essential and important tip. Thanks for Sharing n Caring.
THANK YOU so much! I bought a walking foot, but it didn't have any directions, and I couldn't figure it out, I put it in a drawer, and there it sat, until right now. I'm off to try it out.
Just to clarify the walking foot doesn't pull the fabric with its feed dogs. It pushes down and allows the dogs to easily slide with no drag. This explains how it can handle differing stitch lengths. If the feed dogs were pulling the fabric you would need to match the movement of the feed dogs in the machine with those of the walking foot. The lever simply lifts the foot st the appropriate time. Still works well though.
I was completely puzzled: how could the top "feet" know how much to pull the fabric to keep in sync with the bottom ones? Thank you so much, that answers everything!
I was going nuts not knowing you had to lift the foot slightly (doesn't say in the manual), you saved me a lot of frustration and headache, (wish I had found your tutorial earlier) thank you!!
Thank you so much for this video was very helpful as I did not understand the need for the bar to be resting on the needle arm. I can now complete my quilt project!
Hello, I hope you still get notifications. I recently bought the walking foot after being frustrated in my swimwear project. You helped me install the walking foot. Useful video Thank you So dearly, much
Thank you for an excellent tutorial. Is it possible to use a twin needle along with this walking foot? It might be very useful for shortening trousers made of very elastic fabric, for example. Thank you.
Great video and very helpful! The only suggestion I would have is that I would have liked to see a sample of what each seam looks like with a regular foot and then the walking foot to see how it corrects the problem
Thanks for three tutorial, can you adjust the stitch length on these things? It seems things could go poorly if you changed the size on your machine but the foot didn't change with it.
My foot came with instructions that said to use either a straight or zig zag stitch so I assume length variations wouldn't matter as long as you don't change the type of stitch
I bought a walking foot after watching your video. I managed to fit it on, except mine comes with an extra metal bar, which I need to go find out what's the use and how to fit it in.
I am using my walking foot on a quilt, and the little bar, that is supposed to ride up and down with the needle, gets stuck in the up position. It is so frustrating! Any idea what could be causing this? When I move it, it drops right down.
please dear - kan you help me ? i have sewing machine AEG and i don`t have a walking foot- i need a specific walking foot for AEG or i can use a universal walking foot ?
How does the walking foot know which way to transport the fabric? The needle goes up and down, you can't translate that into a motion that has the same length or direction like the lower feed.
+Luc Jansen This device employs the same mechanical setup as a Bowling Alley pin setting sweeper. How does it made to always reach out from the end of the alley, sweep towards the back and then move out of the way of the descending pin rack? The walking foot employs this same setup except in miniature. The walking foot is an excellent attachment for any sewing machine but excels at making bowling shirts. Just thought to add my uneducated two cents in. Smiles.
But the sweeper is always moving in the same direction at the same speed. There's no way that a walking foot will match the direction and stich length of the normal feed dog. The movement of the needle is always up and down, it's not related to stitch length or direction. Therefore it doesn't function!
I don't understand! My needle is too thick to fit through the little line on the walking foot, and it's too far to the left to go through the hole. It keeps hitting the top. How do I make it work? Do I need a thinner needle? Is it possible to move my needle?
I heard you can not. Here is the question I saw on google. The link does not work but if you type any of the questions in google, maybe the website will appear. "Can I back stitch with a walking foot?" When using the walking foot, it is recommended to use a stitch that has reinforcement rather than a reverse stitch. For a chart showing all the stitches and their settings, please click here. "How do I reinforcement the stitches when using a walking foot?" help.brother-usa.com › app › answers › detail › a_id
Has anyone had the experience of the walking foot basically squashing the fabric? It's only a couple layers of fleece, but I can hardly fit them under the foot; and once I sew, there's indents from the foot (and then a jam, and I had to stop)
So they are technically not a walking foot as in how proper walking foot sewing machines work, they are just a double feed dog. Not sure I will bother with this attachment, thanks for the demo.
