VERY RARE!
SINGER Walking Presser Foot #160741
aka Black “Penguin”

$595.95

Honestly, I don't see how I will ever use any of the newer - later model Walking Feet. This one is in a class all by itself. But then, should it be any surprise coming from the SINGER of yesterday?

I couldn't just use normal fabric... nor everyday blanket binding... I had to really show what this specialty attachment can do on 'worthy' fabric and notions. Afterall, the Walking Foot is most definitely worthy of my special fabric stash! This called for the pretty of pretties pink polka dotted fabric (that was used for my daughter's dolly, "Betty Sue's" dress) and the very-much-savored matching pink blanket binding sent special to me as a gift.

(I used a dark brown thread, so you could see it in the photos.)

It is recommended to use a seam guide for stitching, but because on the Featherweight the Cloth Guide "edge" wouldn't work with my wide blanket-binding illustration, I gave myself another way of utilizing the lovely Singer Cloth Guide - turning it on end and using the top edge as my perfect guide.

I was quite skeptical with the very slippery blanket binding... and sewing four thicknesses of pile fabric between it. I was sure there would be some slippage of any one of the layers.

Much to my perfectionistic satisfaction, this vintage Singer Walking Foot proved to me that it really and truly is one of my most prized Singer Attachment possessions. And it really does walk (waddle) like a penguin.
 

The Singer Walking Presser Foot is designed to produce superior stitching on fabrics which, by the nature of their texture, surface, or weave, tend to ease, stretch, or adhere when stitching. Fabrics typical of the group are: Plastics and coated fabrics, Napped fabrics, Pile fabrics, Rough texture fabrics, Knitted fabrics, Polished surface fabrics

It is also recommended for stitching suede leather, kid, capeskin and fine supple leather used for wearing apparel or trimming accents.

The construction of the Walking Presser Foot provides two toes; the left moves in unison with the feed of the sewing machine, carrying the two plies of material without slipping or stretching; the right toe holds the material firmly in position while the left toe returns for each succeeding stitch.

The delicate but firm handling of the material makes the SINGER Walking Presser Foot especially useful in many construction and finishing steps in sewing, where several layers of fabric are stitched, where bias edges are joined, and where fabrics of different textures are combined such as in: Binding Blankets and other binding operations where binding is guided by hand, Stitching pre-folded hems, or free hand hems in fabrics and plastics, Stay stitching of bias edges, Stitching curved and bias seams, Welt or slotted Seams, Multiple stitching on lapels and facings and Applying patch pockets.

See? Four thicknesses besides the two of blanket binding...
and NO SLIPPING!
It sewed it P E R F E C T L Y!!!

You will surely want to sit down with a cup of coffee or tea and learn from the little manual. There is a lot of helpful, practical information that if you know what you are able to do with this gadget ahead of time... perhaps one day when you go to do that "difficult" project or seam, you will be reminded of your Singer Walking Foot and the wonderful aid it can be to your sewing.

A reproduction manual will be provided.

$595.95