Foot pedal stabilizer?

I have sucess with the textured shelf liner (not sure what ti's actually called).

How about:

I once had a customer that put Velcro on the bottom, used on a carpet seemed to work pretty well.

I use an older computer mouse pad. New ones sell for $1 at Big Lots. Barbara in FL

Does your sewing area have carpet or hard surface? I've found that pedals 'stay' much better on carpet. My sewing room is in the basement on a tile floor, and between chasing the pedals around and cold feet I was most unhappy. We went to the local carpet store and got a couple of samples of flat carpet (discontinued styles, they gave them to us), and solved both problems at once. I didn't even need velcro!

An intermediate solution was the honeycomb-style shelf liner, which worked fairly well but tended to curl up at the edges.

jenn

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ambimom had written this in response to

:Save your money and try the solutions recommended here. I have both ofthe items you mention. Neither one works very good on wood floors, whichis what I have in my sewing area. I'm gonna try the mousepad myself.

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What is the main floor? Tile, carpet, wood? Our work room and study has a tile floor, and I had the same problem. I bought a small rubber-backed door mat, the sort with a 'carpet' topping. It works a treat. The rubber backing stays put of the tile, and the pedal more or less stays put on the carpet topping. My problem seems to be that I tend to push the pedal away from me, especially if my lower leg is sloping outwards rather than upright, IYSWIM.

I have used the Pedal Stay for many years, since I first saw it in her catalog and I must say I've been happy with it. But my DD didn't like the one I gave her, so she traded for the Neez-ez and continually brags about it. I chose the Pdal-Stay because it seemed with the Neez-ez, your foot was at an odd angle, but I've never tried it. Emily

I have a device which I bought at either JoAnn's or Hancock's many years ago. It is a sort of rounded off triangle of plastic with a piece of fuzzy fabric in the middle. It comes with some velcro which you attach to the base of the pedal. Mine slides around on my hardwoood floors, but I fixed that by standing one leg of my sewing table on a corner of it. IIRC it cost around $10.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Try a piece of plywood about a foot square. Put non-slip rug backing under if it goes on bare floor, a piece of car mat with the little teeth on it if it goes on carpet. Velcro the pedal to the plywood.

Oh, excellent feedback and tips! Verrrry much appreciated.

My fault for not mentioning that the floor of my sewing room is laminate flooring. Sometimes I think that foot pedal must be on roller skates.

:O

I have the same problem with hardwood floors and have been using a few of the methods mentioned with varying success.

I never saw the Pedal Stay until now, but after reading about it, I'm going to buy it.....

I have hardwood floors in my sewing room. Emily

I had the same problem,and used some of the solutions suggested here. I also tried one that may sound really simplistic,but it worked for me. I just turned the foot pedal around so it faced the opposite direction. Now ,instead of my heel beind down and pressing my toe away from me (and the pedal as well) my toe is down and I press my heel down to activate the pedal. It seem because the position of my leg is different,I am pressing my heel straight down and I don't get the slide problem. Elaine In MA

My pedal shifts around and tries to hide, too, whether on carpeting or on hard flooring. (I use a portable vintage Singer -- 99K -- sometimes in the dining room, sometimes in the kitchen, and sometimes in the living room.) Being the uptimate cheapskate and make-do person, I use a small plant table to hold the pedal in place on the floor, and it works very, very well with $0 spent. It is a metal base in pedestal shape, with 3 feet that spread out from the pedestal. The

14" rouund marble top is fairly heavy, so the plant table stays put whether on carpeting or hard flooring. I put the plant table in front of my machine toward the right and put the foot pedal on the floor between 2 of the feet, and the pedal stays put in the V very nicely. The marble top is a handy place to park miscellaneous stuff, too -- in a shoebox lid (see, I'm really cheap!) I might have a pin cushion, extra scissors, seam ripper, extra bobbins, a spool of thread, etc.

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I like the Pedal Stay. I used to get them wholesale and sell them on eBay, but stopped some time ago. Medical transcriptionists use them for their foot pedals too.

Finally went and looked it up. The one I have is apparently the Pedal Sta. As I mentioned, it still moves around on my hardwood floor, so I anchor it by putting one leg of the sewing table on a corner of it.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans