Horizontal Walking foot Brother, Babylock etc
How to Use a Sewing Machine Walking Foot
The Walking Foot is an unusual looking foot that is designed to provide an extra set of feed dogs for the top of the fabric being sewn. This makes managing unusual fabrics manageable. Matching plaids or specific designs becomes simple. All of the sudden knits flow through your machine without growing. Slippery fabrics like minky cloth don’t slide all over the place. Bulky projects like quilts walk together.
To begin with, the Walking Foot does not look like other sewing machine feet. It is big and bulky and has an arm that attaches to the needle bar. This extra bar now tells the sewing machine to pull the top fabric through the sewing machine at the same rate it is pulling the bottom fabric.
