Speaking of favorite sewing machine feet usage:
I love to use my blind hemmer foot not for blind hems but to help
guide piping into the perfect position for the stitching to come right
up to the cord, works well for fine 19th century sized piping.
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Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian
Re the pintuck foot: I don't have one for my current machine (the one I
am replacing). I did have a pintuck foot for a previous machine. That
was years ago, but if I recall, the pintucks produced with the twin
needle were disappointing because they were narrower than Edwardian
lingerie
I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions for its use in a reprint of a c.1930
Singer Featherweight manual.
Ann,
I have a pleater foot that came with my 1897 machine. Many early
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At 17:13 18/05/2008, you wrote:
I've got a pleater foot, and very
Thank you so much, Laura,
Yes, I mean the ruffler foot. Mine is a very close cousin to your first link,
which I left quoted below.
It makes its ruffles is by making a little pleat, every stitch, or every 6 or
12 stitches, depending on how it's set. modern ruffler foot:
I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions for its use in a reprint of a c.1930 Singer
Featherweight manual.
Ann in CT
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At 17:13 18/05/2008, you wrote:
I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions for its use in a reprint of a
c.1930 Singer Featherweight manual.
Ann in CT
As mechanical pleating machines
Never mind the 1870's.how about the 1500's
*shudders*
and I'll probably do it again...
Brangwyne
At 17:13 18/05/2008, you wrote:
I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions
