Which Brand Of Portable Walking Foot Machine Is Best

[Wizcrafts]

Tejas made a very important statement. He pointed out that just because a sewing machine has a "walking foot" system, it is not necessarily the best walking foot system for sewing leather. We prefer to use what are known as compound, or triple feed walking feet. A triple feed system has three items moving in sync: the feed dog, the needle and the inside foot. The outside foot moves up and down to either hold down the leather between stitches, or to allow the above mentioned group to move it as the stitch is formed.

Portable walking foot machines are all dual feed, with the outside foot moving in sync with the feed dog. The needle and inside foot simply go up and down. Additionally, these machines rely upon teeth on the bottom of the feet to assist it with feeding slippery material. These teeth will noticeably mark the top of the leather.

[Darren Brosowski]

Would suggest a Pfaff 335/Consew 227R compound feed for the sort of work you are doing.

I imported some of the sailrite machines from Taiwan and I was not really impressed. For light leather they really do not offer any great advantage over a 1960's Japanese central bobbin domestic machine that you can lick up for $20