Episode 304: Presser Feet
Love to Sew Podcast
Helen Wilkinson
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This episode is all about presser feet! We cover all the basics, plus take you into truly mysterious territory. Like: how do you use a ruffler foot? Do you need a blind hem foot to sew a blind hem? And does my machine have a high shank or a low shank? We've got your answers!
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| 0:00.0 | We are recording today on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territories of the Coast Salish and Quakwakwakwak peoples, including Slaywituth, Squamish, Musquiam, and Comox First Nations. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to Love to Sew. I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics and BF Patterns. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's closet patterns and Cedar Quilco. |
| 0:22.6 | We're two sewing buds who love to sew and it's basically all we ever talk about. |
| 0:27.6 | This episode is all about presser feet. We cover all the basics and take you into truly mysterious territory. |
| 0:34.6 | Like, how do you use a ruffler foot? Do you need a blind hem foot to sew a blind hem? |
| 0:39.4 | And does my machine have a high shank or a low shank? We've got your answers. If you love to sew, |
| 0:45.5 | this is your show. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello. Hi, Caroline. |
| 0:54.5 | How are you? |
| 0:55.0 | Hi, Helen. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:57.0 | How are you? |
| 0:57.8 | I'm good, thank you. |
| 0:59.6 | No presser. |
| 1:01.8 | I just want to make presser related jokes. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm feeling really presser right now to make presser related jokes. |
| 1:09.7 | Don't press me. |
| 1:16.0 | Are you dressed to impress today? |
| 1:22.0 | Not really honestly. No, me neither. You'll notice we have not put our podcast on YouTube. I was going to say, this is why we don't have video with the podcast because we just don't want to get dressed. |
| 1:28.6 | No, I don't. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah. |
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