Hey everyone! This is Sarah with Sewingpartsonline.com and today I'll be
showing you how to use and install the Binder Foot.
so this is our Snap-O-matic Binder Foot.
It snaps on to your shank right up here where
the bar is like normal.
Right here in the front, this opening right here is where you are going to put your fabric through.
On the side
we have these little slots.
but also wants
The first one is where we put our binding through and the
rest of them are there so you can use a seam ripper or a pin
to
pushed the binding through, as well as this
slot here.
This little crease.
You can push the binding through here as well.
So, to install it all we have to do is take off the foot we have on.
The funnel is facing you.
you just
clip it on like that. Very, very simple.
When we're using our binder foot, it's important to note of what
tapes you are using.
For this binder foot, your max if half an inch.
of single fold. So you can't use any double fold. I tried and it got stuck and it was
a big mess.
Just use a regular single fold
half inch. So
your end binding
will be only
a quarter of an inch like this. So if will be folded over.
You can get them on a roll like this were the edges don't fray.
Or, you can get them like this in the packages you find in the binding section
just like this. It has a little edge
and is in when it's
on your
project
it will look like that.
So, here we have our binding tape. I cut it to a point right here so it is easier to put in.
Just put it in the little slot at the very top.
You kind of have to maneuver it in.
It's kind of hard at first and can get a little frustrating.
Once you get in a little bit
you can just put your seam ripper in
and pull it to the back.
And it should come right through.
There we go.
Just pull it two inches
past the foot
You can go ahead and install it.
And we are ready to start sewing. I have all of mine just hanging out over here because
it's important that you feed it
correctly or it
decides
to get all lopsided. So,
will just put in the fabric through this little slot
You don't have to shove it back there.
When the feed dogs move your binding tape
the tape will grab a hold of your fabric and move it through, too.
as long as you are a needle is grabbing the binding tape
it should be fine and i've notice sometimes that my binding tape does kind of shift
around on mean so i'll just keep an eye on my need a position and move it over as
needed.
If I see it's starting to
go off on me
I'll just move it over a little bit
until it's grabbing both the fabric and the binding tape.
you can hold your bind tape up at an angle if that's easier to get on your
fabric. It just depends how it's feeding on your machine.
Once you get the hang of it you can really
speed up a little bit.
If you do have some sections that didn't catch the binding tape
that's alright, you can just go back and take out a little bit of the stitching and hand tack it back down. It's no big deal.
You can
make the stitches longer or shorter. You can move it over to a
zigzag, if you want.
And let's see what it looks like.
Here, you can see it's nice and even.
Perfect stitch; exactly what we want.
And over here, we went over to a zigzag,
catching both the binding tape in the fabric.
So, this time I'm going to use some twill tape
and
some knit fabric. So, you can use this foot with knit fabric,
a little tip though,
if your edges are rolling all over the place,
starch them down
nice and flat first and put in a
basting to help keep everything stabilized while it is going
through this foot.
so
same as before
We're just going to slip it in like this,
and make sure our needle is where we want it.
Yup, that's catching it.
so
It's a little bit harder with knit, especially a light weight knit like this
but that's okay.
Once everything gets started, it works really well.
Try to make sure this isn't slipping all over the place. It is a little harder with knits, but
it still comes out looking
really, really good.
And this twill tape is a little thicker
and a little harder to get through
but it does go through and it still feeds
really nicely.
Once again, stabilizing the fabric with some start is kind of the key to using this foot with knits.
I have my twill tape over here to the side.
Just because I think it feeds better.
Let's take a look at how it
turned out.
See right there on the edge? You can barely even see the stitches.
but it does hold very well and looks very neat
on the knit fabric.
This time I am going to show you how we go around a corner.
This corner goes straight in to a curve, so you'll see with this foot you can
go around corners and you can go around curves
We got right up to the corner,
we're just going to go
and sew
about 1/4 of an inch
from the corner.
We're going to put the needle down
and flip it back in to the
binding.
Just like that.
So, we went from like this,
back in here to the binding.
You're going to have to kind of
help maneuver it.
it's definitely a little finicky.
And then we're going be going straight in to the curve.
Keep an eye on your binding making sure it's catching.
You can also do a rounded corner.
We are going to do a rounded angle.
You want to kind of
pull your hand on the back of the fabric like this.
You may have to tweak it just a little bit.
And just
keep turning the fabric.
So, it came out a little bit, but I can fix that.
We went right around the corner,
all the way into a curve,
and around a rounded corner.
That was the Binder Foot.
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