Pin Tuck Foot

F I N A L  T U T O R I A L

I have now reached the final week of machine embroidery and this week we have learnt the final new foot called the Pin Tucker. This was completely different from the previous feet as you have to use a double needle to create the pin tuck. This foot again shocked me a little because it produces an entirely new outcome. At first I really enjoyed using it because I loved the way the tension allows the fabric to change completely. I am normally a little messy and because of this I also really liked the fact that due to the ridges in the foot it was so easy to produce straight and neat lines.

There were a couple of downfalls I found when using this foot however. One of these was that if the spool ran out of thread it meant a little longer in threading the machine back up due to the double needle etc, and secondly having two threads of different weight i.e. one cotton and one burmalana, meant that it was difficult to find a tension which suited both threads enough for them not to snap. 

Below are some of the samples I produced in our second brief of twenty.