Distinctive Ruffler Foot
From everything I have read, ruffle feet, no matter who makes them or what machine you are using, are finicky things. There is a lot of testing and messing to get them to work correctly.
This is how I THINK things work with the Distinctive Ruffler Foot.
Make sure you are feeding your ruffle fabric in correctly. It has to be between the two black plates...the flat one and the bent one with teeth. Also it has to be under the raised prong. The diagram in the instructions is pretty good.
There are four slots(*-12-6-1) and this is the spacing regulator. This is how many pleats/ruffles for every X amount of stitches with 1 being very full because it ruffles every stitch and where 12 is very loose because it's every 12 stitches. The * is for NO Pleat/Ruffle.
Further fullness of ruffles can be adjusted by your machine stitch. Shorter stitches are for fuller ruffles. I saw on a post somewhere that setting 1 you will need 4-5 X fabric length, 6 is 2 X, and 12 is 1.25 X.
Now the other thing is for pleating. You will see 0-1-2-3-4-8 on the opposite side of the orange screw. The numbers are kind of hard to see. This is for pleat depth. The 0 is for little pleat and 8 is for deep pleat.
I typically use 1 for spacing and 0 for depth. I typically use a basting stitch on my machine stitch length. A few times for very full pleats I did set the depth to 8. It gives a different look. Anyhow...the "standard" is 1 spacing and 0 depth.
This is how I THINK things work with the Distinctive Ruffler Foot.
Make sure you are feeding your ruffle fabric in correctly. It has to be between the two black plates...the flat one and the bent one with teeth. Also it has to be under the raised prong. The diagram in the instructions is pretty good.
There are four slots(*-12-6-1) and this is the spacing regulator. This is how many pleats/ruffles for every X amount of stitches with 1 being very full because it ruffles every stitch and where 12 is very loose because it's every 12 stitches. The * is for NO Pleat/Ruffle.
Further fullness of ruffles can be adjusted by your machine stitch. Shorter stitches are for fuller ruffles. I saw on a post somewhere that setting 1 you will need 4-5 X fabric length, 6 is 2 X, and 12 is 1.25 X.
Now the other thing is for pleating. You will see 0-1-2-3-4-8 on the opposite side of the orange screw. The numbers are kind of hard to see. This is for pleat depth. The 0 is for little pleat and 8 is for deep pleat.
I typically use 1 for spacing and 0 for depth. I typically use a basting stitch on my machine stitch length. A few times for very full pleats I did set the depth to 8. It gives a different look. Anyhow...the "standard" is 1 spacing and 0 depth.