Mystery Du Jour
Ok, you know the cliché, The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. Well, I have no idea what the heck this vintage, low shank foot really is. There are no numbers or markings.
Any ideas??
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looks like the gathering foot i have for my Singer 66.
Nope, not a gathering foot- check out the blade on the bottom.......
yes, it looks like my gathering foot for Singer 66. Maybe the slot is to add trim while gathering?
Above is a Singer gathering foot. It has no blade on the underside.
hmmmmmmmm, very curious to know what it is as well. i love vintage feet!
ohhhhhhh lol. i saw the hole and immediately thought of my gathering foot. i'm at work so working from my faulty memory lol lol. hope someone comes us with the answer because now i'm sure curious!
Well, I really appreciate that you took a shot at it!
I'm curious too!
Could it be some kind of braid foot? the cut away part of the front would be for feeding the braid and the blade would guide it??
The heavy weight look of this foot tells me it is not a Singer foot, but I don't know whose it is.
Well, the edge of the cut out could guide some sort of trim or braid, but I would think that the blade would be to guide the edge of the material that it is being attached too, not the trim being fed from above. the blade isn't particularlly deep, so, I'd have to have a try at using it that way before I could say "that's it". I don't do much embelishing, so that you for the idea! I'll check it out and report back.
It looks alot like some of the Pfaff feet I've seen, except that it isn't marked. My favorite narrow hemmer is a Pfaff foot.
it looks like it might be a foot to hold small ribbon or lace in place while attaching it to fabric
This is a quilting foot. Look here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/vintage-Singer-sewing-machine-Quilting-foot_W0QQitemZ130325097528QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item1e57fb2c38&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
Use it with the quilting guide
http://i.ebayimg.com/19/!BYeitnw!Wk~$(KGrHgoH-CcEjlLl4lRpBKh)8FY4pw~~_12.JPG
Well, the quilting foot you linked to doesn't have the notch on the side or the blade on the bottom like the "mystery foot". I'm really leaning towards it being for sewing on thinner types of embellishments (lace, flat braid, etc.)
Hi Jenny, check with Charlene Phillips, her website is www.thesewbox.com..She has a very good book on vintage sewing machine accessories..She might be able to figure out what type of foot this is...
It resemebles some of the high shank compensating feet I have for my industrials. Mine are hinged/spring loaded but there others that aren't spring loaded. We use them to do very accurate edge stitching along a seam or fold also understitching facings. They do come in other gauges for different spacin
Could this be an edge stitcher as suggested for speciality napped fabrics such as velvet?
I believe you are correct. I just ordered one of these unhinged versions recently.
Well. I am not sure either but I also have one just like it in my attachment box that came with my 66-16. I do have part of the attachment booklet but part is missing and it most be on that part! lol
It looks like it would serve the same purpose as one of my Viking presser foot: the Viking "Left" Edge Top Stitch Foot 412 78 42-45. (See sewingmachine221sale website for a picture of this Viking presser foot.)
I use this presser foot to topstitch a hem on the wrong side of garment. I butt the folded, top edge against the guide, and I have the needle topstitch very close to the folded edge.
It looks like the presser foot you have pictured above functions in the same way. The folded, top edge of the garment's hem is butted against the blade of the foot. Then topstitched close to the edge.
Like the "left edge" Viking foot, your presser foot also has the side to right of the blade, raised slightly higher than the left side, to accomodate the folded, top edge of the garment's hem.
A very useful presser foot, I think.
Did you ever figure out what this foot is for????? Could it be an early piping foot?
The blade could go in the ditch of a previously sewn seam, while a ribbon (or frill?) was stitched next to it as trim. Could it sew flat ribbon "braid" next to the leg seam of a band uniform?