Big Foot

For the last while I’ve been really wanting to do some free-motion embroidery. I love the look, and I’ve done it on a few different pieces, but always with some aggrevation. I didn’t have a FME foot and so I simply stretched out the fabric with my hands and went at it without a foot on the machine.

The problem: without a proper FME foot, I had a hard time keeping the stitches even and my threads keep breaking every few minutes.

The solution:

The big foot.

First I went to my local sewing shop to see about buying a FME foot, but she quickly informed me that FME were not available in high (long) shank styles. I left. And I went onto ebay, where I found several FME foot attachments in the high shank style.

After reviewing several threads and articles on the web, I noticed many people recommending the Big Foot FME foot as the best available, so that’s the one we bought.

Well, it arrived today. :)

This is actually supposed to be a Christmas present, and Joey will at some point nick the big foot and wrap it to put in my stocking. But since he’s in London right now, I took the opportunity to check the foot out and make sure it was in perfect working order.

I love this thing — it makes FME so easy to do. Here’s a sample I did really quickly:

This is going to make things so much easier, and I’ll be much less likely to sewing through my finger. :)