Today I am going to show you how you can take
cording, fabric, and a really cool presser foot
and make your own piping for an assortment of projects.
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Hey, everybody. Tricia here with Sewing Parts Online.
So let's look at the welting foot.
Here we have a snap on and
here we have a couple of screw ons.
This one is a single welt foot and
this one is a double.
You can tell if it's single or double by turning it over and
checking the amount of grooves on the bottom of the foot.
Because this foot helps you create piping, another name for it is...
you guessed it, piping foot.
Let's say you have a variety of feet with your machine and
the welting foot came with it, but
you're not sure of the size.
If you simply flip it over and measure the distance across the tunnel,
that's going to tell you what size welting foot you have.
When using a welting foot, for best results, you want to use
the same size piping/cording as the size of your presser foot.
If you are using really thick fabric,
you wouldn't be able to use the same size foot as your piping because it's not going to have enough room.
Then you would have to go up a size to allow for that thickness.
Here, I premade some piping.
You can see that it's all enclosed.
Now, this is a medium weight woven fabric
Let me grab a heavier fabric.
So this is faux leather.
You can see that it didn't enclose it all the way.
Technically, it's okay, but
in this particular circumstance, I would have done a larger welting foot.
To make your own strips is pretty easy.
We're going to go ahead and grab a little fat quarter.
So that's going to be 18x22".
Unfortunately, you can't see the whole thing on screen so I'll do my best to
show you each side as I'm working on it.
So what you want to do first is grab the bottom right
and bring it up to the top left.
Make sure that the top part is nice and even.
Just like that.
So you're going to form a triangle here and
have an extra rectangle on the side.
We can cut that little rectangle off and
you can save it for later- for a different project.
This is your bias edge.
So now that you've folded it into a triangle, you want to cut along the bias edge.
There we go. As you can see, it's not perfect, but that is totally fine.
As long as you have cut on the bias, we are going to clean everything up here in just a moment.
So we're going to take the top right part of the triangle and bring it down to this bottom left here.
Match that up as best as you can.
Keep in mind what your bias edge is.
K. We've got our bias edge. We're going to carefully rotate that and put it vertically in front of us.
Here's where the cleanup part comes in.
If you want to take a rotary cutter and a ruler, and just clean up that edge.
Then we'll cut 2 inch strips.
So now that I've cleaned up that edge, I can do the 2 inch strips.
I'm just going to bring this over here.
Lift up your ruler and do it again.
Just keep doing this until you're done.
At this point, we are going to attach these all together in order to form a continuous strip of fabric.
Move these out of the way. I just need two pieces.
I like to use different sizes since this one is longer and
this one is shorter. We'll use those two.
Now, you don't want to just match these up.
That's not going to end up turning out correctly.
You want to lay one piece right side up.
And you're going to form a 90 degree angle.
So I will take the next strip and doing it right side down.
Placing it like this.
I always like to double check that once you open it up, it's going to be a straight piece of fabric.
You want an overhang on each side 1/4" to allow for the seam allowance.
So then you can go and sew your 1/4"
There we go. I sewed my 1/4"
and I got sloppy on that, but that is totally fine in this particular case.
Not always.
We're going to be able to encase the piping and all of this going to be hidden.
So with it being uneven here, that is totally fine, but
under normal circumstances, you want it to be a straight line.
So, I am going to try that again.
Take the strip that we've attached and
form that 90 degree angle.
So again, we're going to overlap. Let's see if I get it right this time.
There we go. That looks a lot better.
Now press open your seams.
Trim off any excess on the tips.
Lay your piping in the strip and then fold it over.
You can pin it or you can use Wonder Clips.
I grabbed this red fabric. It shows up a little better on film, so
hopefully, you can see exactly what I'm doing.
Now that you've prepared your cording, you can place it underneath your presser foot,
making sure that your cording is within the groove that you are wanting
You don't want to pierce the cording with the needle.
You actually want it just on the edge.
We actually have another video on the welting foot.
There are some more tips and tricks in there so
I will include a link for that video at the end of this video.
I grabbed a scrap piece here to show you that
you can also use a narrow zipper foot
or an adjustable zipper foot to insert piping.
So, just keep in mind that you have to adjust the needle in order
for it not to hit the foot.
I need to get as close as possible to the piping.
I'm going to move my needle over to the right.
Remember, you don't want to catch the piping.
You want to be right on the edge.
I think I may be good.
Well, that's as far as I can go so
that works perfectly.
Hold it tight to the fold and then sew.
Stop, readjust. Make sure it's tight.
What's my thread doing?
Let's fix that.
There we go.
So, this is another option, like I said, if you don't have a welting foot.
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Although using a zipper foot is a great technique,
I do prefer using the welting foot.
That tunnel makes it so nice and easy for the cording to be directed correctly.
And it just makes the piping process- piping process - piping making process-
the piping making process more enjoyable.
Here I've made a Christmas pillow showing off some piping.
Although, this is probably one of the more common ways to use a welting foot,
it doesn't exclusively have to be used for pillows and upholstery.
I was thinking about it the other day.
If you placed several pieces of cording next to each other and continued and made a textured fabric,
you could turn it into a potted plant cover.
Have you seen those natural, woven baskets?
Kind of make your own makeshift one.
I think it would look really cool.
Do you have any unique ideas where you could use the welting foot?
Comment below.
I hope that you enjoyed learning about the welting foot.
Until next time, Happy Sewing, Everybody!