A sewing machine can't really sew without presser feet, and though the machine came with a straight stitch foot in relatively good shape, I decided to roll the dice and try buying a variety pack of feet from Amazon.
The first thing I wanted from the kit was the pair of thumb screws it came with. These are usually used for screwing the foot onto the presser foot bar, but they're also used for securing the t-guides to the sewing machine's table.
And they do that job perfectly!
However, this is where things took a bit of a downhill turn. As I soon learned, the discount presser feet were not really worth even the low price I paid for them.
In case it's not obvious, this is not how presser feet are supposed to work. This was admittedly the worst of the bunch, but even the ones that were close to being good were not great.
Like honestly, how hard is it to just manufacture these correctly?
I sorted the feet into three piles, based on whether they immediately caused a needle strike, almost caused a strike, or were actually suited for purpose.
And of the 25 feet in the kit, 12 were completely unusable, 10 were marginal, and 3 whole presser feet were basically within tolerance.
Pure garbage. It's a good thing that Amazon has an easy return policy. Lesson learned: never trust CKPSMS.
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