Edgestitching at 1/16"

Dear JPBill,

Look through your tool box and see if you have an attachment that looks like a hockey stick. It screws onto the bed of your machine, rather than being a foot. It's used to get even rows of quilting. I think you can set it close enough to your work that you can edge stitch 1/16 inch. There is also another accessory that looks sort of like a foot on a vacuum cleaner. It, too, screws into the bed of your machine, and is meant to be used for edge stitching. Failing either of these, look in your manual and see what is provided for your particular machine.

Teri

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hello i am no expert at in anyones mind but i have couple of different feet i might try to accomplish this task.

1. Old Singer and Greist feet called **edgestitcher feet** (greist says --- "edge-stitcher") the foot has a side to side adjustable, long, wide, raised, flat piece of metal out in front of the foot with multiple graduated slots that allow you to piece together or steer fabric into the sewing part very precisely.

See example ebay item : 160221600446

these feet come in several varieties (slant, short, long shank) and with either a (straight stitch hole or zig zag slot )sometimes you can also find them included in old singer and greist accesory sets if you can not find the foot by itself.

That is the simplest solution.

1. use my hemstitcher foot which has a ZZ slot

i would guide the edge of the fabric under the hemfolder part along the inside edge of the long toe and adjust my needle to hit the fabric at the desired position.

1. using the bias or tape binder foot

The singer binder foot has one similar slot like the edgestitcher foot out front to guide the fabric and of course not feeding and binder or bias tape and then position the needle to sew at the desired point.

hth robb

I guess it depends on how accurate and consistent you want the stitching to be.

The standard presser foot on my Pfaff has a plastic window insert that has a 2mm mark either side of the centre position, and a narrow slot or throat straight up the centre to the 'normal' needle position. I can get a reasonably straight line by eye. I find it easier to offset the needle by whatever distance I want and keep the edge of the material slap bang in the middle under the throat.

If I want real consistency I have a narrow edge foot (code 820217-096) which has a tempered metal guide aligned with the centre or throat of the foot. Keep the edge of the material fed through on that guide and offset the needle by whatever amount. I use it quite often.

I put my steel zig-zag foot in the machine, set the needle in the middle position, and guide the fold along the inside of the right toe. (My right: the toe nearer the handwheel.)

One would think that with the needle centered in the hole and the hole centered under the foot, it would be possible to edge stitch the other side by using the left toe -- but it comes out too wide.

I have two different edge-stitching/hemming feet, and was really hipped on the second one for a while, but it takes too long to get the guide just so; I had a strong tendency to avoid re-setting it.

Joy Beeson

I use my edgejoiningfoot which I keep the blade at the edge of the fabric, move my needle position which I've measured and then just go on.

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