Hey Everyone this is Sarah with Sewingpartsonline.com and today we are going
be talking about the Cording Foot.
we have a three hole cording foot and a 5 hole cording foot.
and these things are really cool
They let us apply decorative cording to our projects as well as
elastic thread, which is really fun, I'll show you how to do that
but we can get even more creative with it we can use yarns
we can put all of these through our
cording foot and I'll show you exactly how
So we're going to be looking at two different cording presser feet.
this first one is for a maximum of up to 3 cords
You can see right here it has a little lever
you can kind of lift up, its a little flexible, to get
the cords into these
tiny little grooves.
when you flip it over, you'll see that
you have more grooves in the back. After it's been stitched,
this is where they guide through
Easy installation, simple snap on.
the other one which is up to 5
pieces of cording
These you kind of have to
thread in through the hole.
and then they go underneath the presser foot.
and through the back
simple snap-on as well let's go ahead and install.
Take off the presser foot you have on.
and just
snap it on.
the other
three hole cording presser foot
is the exact same method installation.
first we're going to go ahead and
look at the 3
hole cording foot.
now you can really use anything as cording as long as it fits through the little
grooves you're fine.
these are all just tiny pieces of yarn.
so here all i have to do to install it is
pop it in.
back here I'm holding the end of the string with my middle finger and my index finger
and bring it up through
where the needle hole is
and pop it in.
Very simple and then we can just put it on the shank.
once we have
the cording through
I went ahead and knotted it in the back
it's just easier because they keep
slipping and sliding all over the place Its just easier to manage if you make a little
knot in the back
because you wanna extended past the foot anyways before you start
sewing and you can cut it off later.
now before we begin make sure you have it on a zigzag stitch.
Because I have 3 I am going to use the zigzag stitch that
does 3 stitches across the whole zigzag.
pretty cool
so i'm also using a topstitching [needle] because it's going to be visible
so
let's go ahead and get started
we can also just kinda
try your best to keep it from tangling
This kind of reminds me of when you would make
braided
bracelet and stuff.
kinda keep the strands separated like that
you can make your
zig zags further apart
so you know whatever preference you like
and to feed this I actually have the cord strung over my shoulder just
because i think it feeds nicely
keep it all apart
and you can continue to sew. You can also use monofilament thread if you don't want
the thread to show.
Just make sure you are using a
metallic needle.
let's go ahead and see what this looks like.
That's pretty nice. I like this. We widened it out a little bit
over here
back here was a little bit closer together. Its very a decorative and it's very pretty and it
looks very very nice and neat
which is what we want it
so right now we're gonna go ahead and use a thicker cording. I'm going to put it right
down the middle. Since this is so much thicker, I'm only going to do one at a time.
if want to add a smaller
thinner
cord through here I could. But, since this is so thick , i wouldn't fill it
all the way up
with similarly
thick cord
so we can go ahead and pull it through.
and sew right over it. Right now i'm using monofillament thread.
you can see this would be a really great project for any kind of holiday
decorating
it looks so cool.
Really cool metallic cording.
Lets go ahead and see what it looks like.
very very cool
you can't really see the
thread because it's monofilament clear thread. So, very cool.
this time we're going to be using the 5 hole cording foot.
just as we talked about when doing the installation you just
thread it through the hole. it's really simple. but this time
we're gonna have three elastic threads
and two
regular no elastic cord.
and in our needle we have some
tinsel thread.
which is pretty cool. so we're gonna see how neat this looks
also while you're sewing this make sure you are
pulling the elastic thread
back like this.
I also have this
on a zigzag stitch.
and let's go ahead and see how it looks.
so it looks very pretty, kind of like those shirred dresses
it has the elasticity once we put this under the iron it's really going to shrink up.
but it has the benefit of
having the really pretty
extra cord in there. The purple.
so it's very nice and definitely something different and go ahead and use those
metallic threads. You can get a real cool look with that.
As we were saying before you can do some really fun stuff with anything you can find in fun stuff with found anything you can
the yarn section. We have a big
purple one over here and a
furry little
grinch one over here.
What it going to do is take this kind of furry and
pull it all together
try to keep the
all these little threads on this side while we're sewing.
and hold it like this. Now I only have two in so make sure your zigzag
has the two spaces
so here we go.
I also still have the fun
metallic thread in.
If you are having difficulty, try to
remember that
with metallic thread you want
to give it a lot of remove for tension.
So, bring your tension down.
Alright, lets go ahead and take a look.
Pretty cool! I really liked the way it looks. You can also, if you want to
get a pin and kind of pull the
little furry out if you want that
extra
texture in there.
So this time we are going to use our cording to add some dimension to our project.
What I'm going to do is cover this cord up entirely with some
similar color thread. So I will be using a metallic
well its more like a tinsel thread, in my needle
And I'm going to use a satin stitch to try and cover it up
the best I can .
it could be really great to go around some applique
or to slip in to some pintucks
just to give it that little extra 'bump' look.
You can do
swirls or hearts
or anything. And it looks really cool and adds really neat dimension.
so let's go ahead and see what this looks like.
really shiny
and if this was to go around
you know any kind of s center object of your piece, maybe a heart or a star, or
something, it'll look really cool and it does
pop up a little bit, which is neat.
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