Hey everyone, I'm Taylor and I'm the product manager here at Seamwork and today we're going
to be talking about our favorite sewing feet. My personal favorite sewing foot is the buttonhole
foot. I know this may be surprising but I sew buttonholes on a lot of my sewing projects.
I love the details that buttons add to a garment as well as a
typical structure that ends up coming along with garments that have buttons.
I recently just sewed about 25-ish buttonholes on my last project, which really worked out great
and I think the biggest reason that it worked out is because of the automatic buttonhole
feature that comes with the buttonhole foot with my Bernina machine. You may have
a different type of buttonhole foot than me but my buttonhole that has a fun feature to where you do
one buttonhole and then it just automatically remembers the size and all you have to do is sew
and then it just does all the buttonholes that you want to do with, no problem, hopefully. Yes, the
buttonhole foot can be annoying when they mess up but I found doing a test or two and then diving
into your project is the best way to get through that and if you think something's going wrong
just stop. Check it out, seam rip the curtain threads that you have in there and redo it. I
know it's kind of annoying because they're really small but it's not going to ruin your project, I
promise. Don't be scared of buttonholes. The more you practice, the more you'll get a feel for them.
Hi I'm meg and I'm the editor here at Seamwork and I want to show you my favorite sewing machine
foot, the walking foot. This foot can be kind of pricey so do you really need one? I'm going to
explain why yes you probably do. So what does a walking foot do? It pulls the fabric evenly
through your machine, it's kind of like an extra set of feed dogs that will walk all
of the layers of fabric evenly. So what would a walking foot help you with? If you're a quilter
you probably already have a walking foot, or you've seen one because it's really helpful when you're
working with multiple layers, including quilting batting. I actually learned to sew on knit fabrics
so my walking foot was my best friend when I was learning how to sew. When you use a walking foot
with knits it prevents your knits from slipping around and getting stuck in your feed dogs
and it's just extremely helpful to use. A walking foot is also great if you need to line up plaids
or stripes and you want to make sure that you're matching the patterns of your fabric between the
layers. It also really helps when you're sewing binding because it has seam allowance markers
on it and it keeps your fabric in place while you sew. Finally if you use a walking foot you
can actually use less pins because the foot does such a good job of ensuring that your seams are
matching you don't need as many pins to hold your fabric together. This foot is so helpful
that some machines including the newer Berninas are actually starting to come with a dual feed
built into the machine. But if your machine doesn't have dual feed all you have to do is
get yourself a walking foot. Do you have any tips for using a walking foot? Comment and let me know.
Hey I'm Haley I'm the designer here at Seamwork and today I'm going to show you my favorite
presser foot. My most favorite presser foot is my one quarter inch presser foot. It's a
standard presser foot that has this little guide on it that helps you sew perfect one quarter inch
seams. You can use it for a bunch of things but I use it most often for perfect topstitching
and my most favorite, french seams and I'm going to show you how. Okay so I'm just going to pop
this guy on and I'll start by sewing my french seam
how I would normally sew it, which is right sides facing out, wrong sides together.
The only thing with this presser foot that I suppose isn't the most ideal is that
you have to be extra extra careful with pins because the guide will kind of knock your pins
right out of place and get jammed, but if you are very good about removing your pins as you sew
then that should not be a problem at all. So you can see that it's making it so easy
for me to sew at a perfect one-quarter inch.
So perfect. I'm going to give this a quick trim and press and then sew the second part of the seam.
And then the second half of the seam.
Easy peasy. I love that it gives me such a perfect seam with literally
very, very little effort. And from the right side, super
clean and pretty. From the wrong side perfectly encased french seam. So awesome.