Vine: How to cover a pressure foot

Top stitching on oilcloth can be pretty sticky business but don't fret is an easy fix. If you don't have a fancy roller foot or Teflon foot you can just cover your favorite pressure foot in painters tape. Here's my Vine video clip to show you just how easy it is.

Don't let all the naughty news about Vine scare you away from all the fun, there's a lot of good stuff to enjoy. Find me on Vine under the name ModernJune or follow my on Twitter feed.  

Once your all connected with me on Vina and Twitter, come back and check out more tips that use painters tape.

Non-Stick Presser Foot

While doing some research, code for dreaming and drooling while visiting the Bernina website, I found a little video on working with non-stick feet.  I'm sure you can find non-stitch pressure feet for every sewing machine brands, I just happen to be Bernina girl! While I haven't used these yet, I hear they are great when sewing on oilcloth.  For other tips concerning pressure feet check out Tip #2 and Tip #6!

OCA Sewing Tip #6: Presser Foot Trick

Back in October of 2008 I had this to say about using a proper pressure foot:

When sewing with oilcloth it is important to have the right presser foot. Oilcloth has tendency to crawl and to not want to stay put, this results in puckers at every pin. Using a roller foot or a teflon foot will help remedy this. When you use one of these handy presser feet you take some of the friction away and have less puckers in your seams.

These pressure feet can be costly, and I could see why someone might be worried about the cost if this was their first oilcloth project. So, the other day I was thrilled to get the following tip from another Oilcloth Addict!

One of our readers had recently read on a sewing forum that you could use painters tape on the bottom of a regular pressure foot. This really works! I don't have a proper foot for my industrial, so there are just some projects I can't do on that machine, for example, topstitching.

I didn't have any painters tape, so I used plain old masking tape! Place the tape on bottom of your favorite pressure foot and then just cut it away using a sharp exacto knife. Now your good to go.

Thanks so much for that no cost solution! If you have a good tip, please contact me at Kelly@modernjune.com.

BTW, I am still working on this weeks tutorial, I made something really fun but when I was done with it I came up with a better way to do it! So back to the back yard drawing board!!! Intrigued yet?