Hey Everyone! This is Sarah with SewingPartsOnline. com and today I am going to show you how to
install and use a welting foot. The Welting foot is really great for making your own piping
to make your home dec. projects a little more unique.
This is the welting foot. It's basically what you are going to use to make your own
pipping, especially for home dec. projects.
This is a 1/8 of an inch
Welting Foot
Right here at the top, this little hole, is where your needle goes through.
Make sure when you
install this and get ready to sew that your needle does line up with the hole
or else the needle is going to break.
This, right here, is where you guide the cording through.
This is where your needle screws in
so it can attach right there.
So, let's go ahead and install it.
You want to take off the foot you already have on, including the shank.
Because this foot is so clunky,
it can be kind of tricky to install. Just try to lift it up as much as you can,
You might have to unscrew [the screw] a lot.
Use your little screw driver to give it an extra turn.
So, here we are preparing to make our own piping.
We have a strip of fabric that we cut out. You can either cut it on the bias or on the grain.
On the bias is better if you are going around any round edges.
The benefit of cutting on the grain is that the fabric is a little easier to manage.
All we do is put our cording in between; this is 1/8 inch cording. They do have it in different measurements to fit your welting foot
in the home dec. department.
All you're going to do
is roll it over like this
and pin it down.
Eventually, you can just feel it's tight enough. You don't have to pin it down and
you don't have to have this much excess fabric.
It's just the length I cut it. You just want at least an inch hanging over.
And you're just going to pin it up along the cording.
You don't have to worry about it being too terribly snug
You don't have to play with it that much.
It's just going to go right under the foot and the foot is going to to do all the work for you.
Now that we have our welting foot installed and we have our piping wrapped
we are ready to start.
I'm just going to put this underneath the foot, I have a little bit of this [piping] sticking out.
I'll show you how it's going to go under like this.
Make sure everything is nice and lined up.
And you can feel the foot
over the piping here.
Here we go.
So, you can see right here,
the thread is right along the edge. It makes perfect, nice, and clean piping
to go on any of your project.
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