Choose Your Walking Foot!
The Walking Foot Gives Superpowers To Your Sewing Machine!
Using a walking foot makes managing unusual fabrics manageable! Sewing matching plaids becomes simple. Knits flow through your machine without growing. Slippery fabrics like minky cloth don’t slide all over the place. Thick multiple layers in bulky projects like quilts walk nicely together.
You're sure to see amazing results when you use a walking foot!
The Classic Walking Foot
The Even Feed Foot or Walking Foot is used for sewing several layers of fabric, and is great for quilting, matching plaids or stripes and sewing fabrics with nap or pile, to keep them from shifting. This foot has its own set of feed dogs that work together with the sewing machine’s feeding system, for perfect fabric feeding!
The classic walking foot has been around the longest and gives you all the advantages described in this week's blog post. Compared to the open toe version, it gives a bit better support to the fabric when the needle is pushed through the fabric. When extra visibility of the sewing area is not needed, this one is the one to go with, also because of the slightly lower price tag.
- Moving feed system holds and moves fabric from the top for increased control
- not for use in reverse or side-to-side sewing
- For use with low-shank sewing machines, including brands Babylock, Bernina, Brother, Elna, Euro-Pro, Husqvarna Viking, Janome, Juki, Kenmore, Necchi, New Home, Simplicity, White.
The Open Toe Walking Foot
The open toe walking foot gives you extra visibility and marks, especially useful when machine quilting and binding. Look for an open-toe walking foot if you do a lot of stitch-in-the-ditch because this will help you see exactly where the needle hits the fabric.
The Even Feed Foot or Walking Foot, is used for sewing several layers of fabric, and is great for quilting, matching plaids or stripes and sewing fabrics with nap or pile, to keep them from shifting. This foot has its own set of feed dogs that work together with the sewing machine’s feeding system, for perfect fabric feeding!
- Open Toe gives you perfect view of the spot where the needle enters the fabric.
- Moving feed system holds and moves fabric from the top for increased control
- not for use in reverse or side-to-side sewing
- For use with low-shank sewing machines, including brands Babylock, Bernina, Brother, Elna, Euro-Pro, Husqvarna Viking, Janome, Juki, Kenmore, Necchi, New Home, Simplicity, White.