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If you wish to quilt or embroider with your sewing machine, the proper foot is a must. For straight-line quilting (and for working with velvets and slippery fabrics) a Walking foot will ensure that the layers do not slip and the end result is satisfactory. Most of my quilting feet are new. If you are not sure whether one of these will fit your machine, please Click here to email me.

For free-motion quilting and embroidery, you need a Hopping Foot (also called a Darning or Freemotion foot.) You do NOT need a machine with dropping feed-dogs, nor do you need a modern machine - I quilt and freemotion quite happily on a Singer treadle which has not even discovered reverse, much less anything more sophisticated...
If you have a modern electronic machine you may need to buy the manufacturers foot..check your manual

You can buy modern plastic FM feet anywhere, but I prefer metal ones...
Quarter-inch Feet are good for piecing patchwork, as they help to keep a standard seam allowance. Remember to keep your zigzag turned off...

Walking Feet
Hopping/ Darning/ Freemotion Feet
Feed Cover Plates and Lifters
Embroidery Feet and Attachments
Quarter-inch feet

Old-fashioned Methods

SF011 Singer Quilt Foot; £5

QF010 Singer Spring Needle, for Free motion work; £12.50 with reproduced instructions
Be warned - these are hard to use. However, if you have a back-clamp 66 this is what you get...

QF055 Another sort of Darning Spring; £10

Walking Feet

QF059 Riccar, Low Shank; £35

QF039 Singer Slant Shank Walking Foot; £30

QF023 Walking foot for New Home/Janome High shank machine (will fit other HS machines); £30

QF053 Riccar; £35

Free-motion/ Hopping/ Darning Feet

QF002 Metal Hopping Foot - for Darning, Free-motion quilting, Embroidery etc. These are new and good quality, easy to use, and highly recommended.. £14-50

QF002a
As QF002 with Open Toe; £14-50

QF027 New Hopping Foot (easy to use); £10

QF028 New Hopping Foot (old-style; suitable for all older machines); £8.50

QF052 Singer 320 special foot, VG; £37.50

QF051 Singer slant shank, good; £20

QF041 Metal, round, good; £8.50

QF043 Metal upright, good; £14.50

QF044 Metal round hole, VG; £10

QF045 Metal round hole, VG; £12.50

QF046 Singer Featherweight type, VG; £35

QF047 Singer Low Shank plastic, good; £10

QF037 Metal small hoop, VG; £18.50

QF038 Nice Pfaff (fits other machines) Hopping Foot, low shank; £12.50

QF025 Oval closed-toe hopping foot; £9.50

QF003 Oval Metal Open Toe Hopping Foot £9-50

QF019 Metal Hopping foot with yarn slot; £12

QF008 Husqvarna Viking Clip-on Free-motion foot; £15

QF004 Oval Metal Closed Hopping Foot £9-50

HS015 Free-motion foot for High Shank machines £12.50

QF057 Metal, small hoop; £14.50

QF054 Singer LS; £10

Feed Cover Plates and Lifters

I personally dislike these. I find that they are difficult to adjust and tend to break needles. On most machines, if you have the right foot, all you may have to do is to set the stitch length to zero and all will work just fine. If you have a machine which drops its feed-dogs, or if you are prepared to use a screwdriver and take the feed-dogs out, that's even better. However, if you must...

NP014 Frister and Rossman needle-plate and lifter plate. Very rare; £10

NP040 Lifter plate - goes under the needle-plate for 15-style machines; £2

NP041 Lifter plate - goes under the needle-plate for later-style machines; £2

NP042 Singer feed-cover plate for round-bobbin 15 and 201 machines; £3.50

NP093 Cover plate for Singer 66 and 99 class machines; £3.50

NP044 Zig-zag Lifter plate for 15 clone; £4

NP079 Feed Cover of Unknown Origin; £3 (possibly a Brother buttonholer plate)

NP080 Pfaff Feed Cover; £5

NP094 Feed cover plate for Viking; £5
NP052 as above but scruffier; £4.50

Embroidery Feet and Attachments

QF016 Stoppax darning attachment, with reproduced instructions. very rare, and great fun...£25

Quarter-Inch Feet

OF037 Bernina Foot 37 - 1/4 inch foot for newer type Berninas; New £9-50

My address is:-
Helen Howes, 4, The Raveningham Centre, Beccles Road, Raveningham, Norfolk, NR14 6NU. United Kingdom
01508 548137
helen@raindropkites.co.uk