Using a generic underbraider attachment on a Singer 15-91

I love experimenting with vintage sewing machine attachments. There are many generic sewing machine attachments that will work on the vintage Singer sewing machines. I am using the Singer 15–91 sewing machine for this demonstration. Today I would like to show you a little about using a generic underbraider attachment. This attachment is very easy to attach to your sewing machine, it just clips on to your needle plate. You slide the bobbin cover plate over, clip the under braiding attachment to the needle plate and close the bobbin cover plate. The foot to use with the under braider is the short toed quilting foot. The part number on quilting foot that I am using 32934, I pulled the quilting bar off of it.

I think the most important thing to remember about using the under braider is the fabric you are sewing on will be facedown covering the braiding attachment. You can draw your design on the wrong side of the fabric if you would like however for this demonstration I just sewed a wavy design.

You will first want to feed the cord through the under braider until it is just past the needle hole. Second you will want to place your fabric over the under braiding attachment and under the quilting foot.

Now you're just so your design and as you do that make sure that you're according is free and easy to feed under the needle. Sew wavy line, sew along a seam line, experiment with a piece of fabric to get the feel of how easy this is.

 Next, you will clip the threads and cording, flip your fabric over and Presto, the cording is sewn to the fabric. I sewed another row on by following the stitching on the back of the fabric.

Sorry about the glare off of the gold cording. It really wasn't that bright of gold in the first place, I didn't think...

I always welcome questions and comments right or if you have an attachment you're not sure how to use please let me know I'd be happy to do a write up on it.

Puzzle Box patent 1889 for Singer Sewing Machine Attachments

Being new to the blogger world I wanted to share my love for everything that I have about Singer Sewing Machine and attachments. I have collected, sold, refurbished many vintage sewing machines over the years and also have learned how to use almost all the attachments that are out there for the vintage sewing machines. Singer sewing machines are one of my favorites as are the little Adlerettes. Recently I decided to showcase a few of the oak puzzle boxes that contain a wonderful variety of sewing machine attachments for the Singer sewing machines. These have been in my stash for close to 15 years and I'm finally getting to the point that I'm wanting to sit and rediscover how great these attachments work.

Years ago I bought a White treadle sewing machine which came with a metal box of sewing machine attachments. I decided to try to use the ruffling foot when I was making a bedskirt for my bed. Now remember, this was close to 20 years ago, I know we don't often make bedskirts anymore however I digress. So I pulled out the ruffling foot of this metal box of  attachments and tested it on a piece of fabric to see what it would do. I was so surprised at what a wonderful job this hundred year old attachment did that I used it for ruffling 14 yards of fabric for the bed skirt ruffle. This all went so very well that I decided to try one of the rolled hemmers and was equally pleased with the results. It rolled that hem so beautifully it look like a professional job.

It is so much fun to discover what these attachments will do, don't be afraid to try them out to see what they can do. You can see more pictures of these attachments in my Etsy store 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LostCreekGoods