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I looked at all the fun feet I could buy for myself not long ago and decided I was going to start buying a few every now and then because they are just so fun! There is a huge amount to choose from out there. I’ll be trying to narrow that list down sooner or later.

The first foot I bought was the Flower Stitch Foot. This is a circular foot that was easy to attach and easy enough, with a slight learning curve, to learn how to use.

I have a low shank machine so I had to unscrew the foot that was on it and slip this one on. It attaches like a walking foot, in that you have to put the long arm over the needle arm. It has foam on the bottom of the foot so you need to drop your feed dogs. That allows the foot to rotate.

There are three determined settings on this foot. An outter ring, a middle ring and an inner ring. Depending on which type of stitch you choose the rings will be close together, even over-lapping, or far apart. You can control not only the stitch width, which is really the length because it’s using the stitch sorta sideways, and the length, which is how close your stitches become when you use this foot.

I suggest you use either a stabilizer or a thick material. Thin material tends to get sucked into the middle, where things can go really wrong. Adjust your pressure foot to it’s highest settings and go slow! Or at least slower than the pell mell type of sewing I usually do. Less chance of the fabric shifting that way.

You start by deciding which ring you want to start on. You will loosen the screw and slide the dial over until the marker in the middle lines up with the mark for the ring you want to make. You can go around as much as you want to make the ring as soft or pop as much as you like. When you have made the ring you like you will then loosen the screw and move the dial and the fabric over.

That was the hard part, the moving the fabric with the dial. It does take a bit of trying it a few times to get it right. Pretty soon though you get the hang of it. The wonky ones have their own charm as well, so it just depends on how perfect you want them.

I’d def say you’d need a marker of some sort, a plan about where you want these to go and you could measure how far apart you want them, or just wing it!

Using your decorative stitches gives you a totally new feel and you can manage a huge amount of differing looks just by the basic stitches on your machine.

A+++ for me. I’m really happy I bought it and have enjoyed playing with it. I can’t wait to finish the project I started with it.

Here’s a couple of samples. You can see my first tries, they aren’t centered well.

First tries with flower stitch foot

Decorative stitches make new and fun flowers!