hi I'm Sara from heirloom creations in Sioux Falls South Dakota with the popularity of our
rule of the month last year we've decided to do a soy machines foot in the maths of
each month we're gonna highlight a specialty foot with its many uses so many feet have
multiple uses other than what it's given name States so for example according and
piping foot can be used to apply pearls yarns and decorative fibers we're going
to do two videos each month one for Bernina feet and one for Husqvarna Viking feet if you
own the other sewing machine brands these feet are readily available for most sewing
machines we even stocking a line of generic feet that often fit older sewing machines
come on let's go to the sewing studio and check out some of these cool feet
you
for the Bernina there are actually two feet that will do the piping or cording there's
number 12 or number 12 see now she means that it's coated well which will allow for sewing
machines that have 9 millimeter wide stitching to be able to use all their needle positions
personally I recommend 12c for all my Bernina users because it has two things number one it
has a taller tunnel for thicker piping plus it even has a hole on the top that we'll use later
free feeding fibers down the foot and having it track so when we're actually spelling we wanted
to cut our fabric on the bias put our cord in between and then set our sewing machine to be
with the needle in the far right needle position for first encasing the cord inside our fabric see
how that's just going to track the cord it's going to make it really easy you can do miles
of the cord within just a matter of minutes I want to show you next how to turn a corner when
applying piping to say a pillow we're going to use this second step to kind of base and
hold our piping in place to our base fabric as we approach the corner we're going to take our
scissors and clip in to the piping that way it's gonna allow it to curve as we go we're going to
go ahead and stitch right up to where the clip was made sink the needle down I like to take one extra
step stitch kind of on the diagonal at this point and then realign for my second side now before we
put this all in closed you remember we move the needle position over to the far right now we're
gonna move the needle position back towards the center one or two amount that way when you stitch
you're going to get a nice hugged seam plus it's gonna hide the stitching that was used to secure
this in place so we're going to put that in over our piping set that down again the foot has that
wonderful tunnel so it's gonna just track right next to the piping even though we can't see it
we can feel it a little bit and it will keep it all aligned ready to see the final results trim
out the seam allowances and turn right side out you're gonna notice that all your stitching has
been completely hidden and that bias fabric has turned the corner perfectly here are a few other
uses for this foot if you want to apply some trim along the edge set your trim in the groove
of the foot and then set a zig zag to just barely catch the fabric and the trim now I've actually
switched to a clear thread so it's gonna be very invisible and it will just look like it's floating
right along the edge likewise you could take a string of pearls and apply them also along the
edge you just wanna again make the zigzag wide enough to jump over the pearls the clear thread
again is gonna make it look like it's floating along the edge of course if you want these to
look like they're stitched onto the fabric we can just come in here take a few stitches
and that foots gonna guide them wherever you want to go I usually like to make the stitch length
the same distance as the purl so if it's actually three millimeter pearls I'll set the stitch length
to three they kind of just make it to one stitch per strand is less to hold them in place lastly
one of my favorite things to do with this foot is to utilize the hole that's on the top I've
fed some decorative yarn down through the foot and set the machine to be just a wide zigzag enough to
encase the yarns and I don't want the stitch line too close together wanted to kind of hop quickly
over the yarn so it just makes it look like it's gonna again float across the top of your fabric
you even on a serger there's a cording foot a big tunnel run your cord down the
middle of your bias fabric and because searchers go faster than sewing machines
you're gonna be able to whip through any length of cord eed you need to make
since the Bernina cording foot is actually called a multi-purpose foot after you do your cord you
can actually go and string your string of pearls down through the groove and just stitch them in
place again match your stitch length to the Pearl length and then you'll get one stitch
per pearl and it'll keep it away from the knife so you don't have to worry about cutting anything