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I’ve been reading Amy’s Free Motion Adventures<\/a> for a while now. She has some wonderful tutorials for free motion quilting, but she also has a wonderful foot for her sewing machine. It’s just like the ones you see on long arm machines, but it fits her domestic machine and makes using rulers on that machine much easier. You see, the problem with using rulers on most domestic machines is that the free motion foot will slide far too easily under the ruler, leaving the operator subject to broken needles, machine timing problems, and even injury. Unfortunately, much as I love<\/i> my Bernina, no similar long arm-style foot is available for it. I’ve tried doing some ruler work anyway, and it was very stressful as I tightened up all of my muscles in the attempt to keep everything safe and working correctly.  Ouch!<\/p>\n

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A recent post to a Yahoo group, however, got my mind working. What if I found something I could attach somehow to my #9 foot, which is the one that I’d most likely want to modify? A trip to my local home improvement stores netted me what I hoped would work. I already had a #9 foot, of course. But I bought some rubber O-rings and some Super Glue and then came home and pondered whether I really thought it would work. That took several days. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Finally, though, I decided I’d give it a try. I put a thin ring of glue around the top of the foot and used a wooden skewer to nudge and tap the O-ring into position, letting it dry for about 30 minutes to be very sure it was secure. Hmmm. Not tall enough. I added another O-ring and let that dry. See the result? The angle of the photo makes it look like the O-rings are skewed, but they really aren’t, I promise.<\/p>\n

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Okay, now that it looked to be the right thickness, all that was left was to give it a try with the curved cross-hatching ruler I’d tried to use previously. The ruler is from this site<\/a>, and I think I will have to get another \u2014 straight this time \u2014 from them.<\/p>\n

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I need lots more practice, obviously, but I really think the modified foot is going to be very helpful! I did a quick trial on a diagonal half of the drawn square here, and the added height on the foot really made a difference in how relaxed I was as I stitched.<\/p>\n

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Here is a series of photos to show the progress on the triangular area:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Doing the first angle of curves<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The second angle<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Finished \u2014 mistakes and all! LOL!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’m so pleased with the foot I’ve modified that I’m not even upset at having a bit of Super Glue on a couple of fingertips! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

NOTE: Please see another option I found and showed here<\/a>. This is even better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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