Barefoot Quilters
#61
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Western NY
Posts: 152
I sew with my birkenstocks on, and even spin wool with them on- it actually feels funny not to have my shoes on when I treadle. I have lymphedema in both my legs, and it is not worth the risk for infection for me to go barefoot anymore.
#64
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Michigan. . .FINALLY!!!!
Posts: 6,726
I remove my right shoe. In fact, if I am on a sewing binge, I wind up walking around the house with only my left slipper on! I took a FMQ class and I was the youngest (if 45 is young!) and I was the only one that sewed barefoot.
#66
Funny you ask-we were laughing tonight at the sew-in about how many single, usually right, shoes were piled up under the table. Me, I'm a barefoot girl. My compromise for pins and cold treadle pedals is my Vibram Fivefingers; all of the benefits of going barefoot, none of the pins in your toes or chilly pedals. Plus, the bottom is a bit sticky, so I can control the pedal better. (I drive 'backwards' anyway, with the pedal turned around, high side closer to me.)
#67
peace
#70
Funny you ask-we were laughing tonight at the sew-in about how many single, usually right, shoes were piled up under the table. Me, I'm a barefoot girl. My compromise for pins and cold treadle pedals is my Vibram Fivefingers; all of the benefits of going barefoot, none of the pins in your toes or chilly pedals. Plus, the bottom is a bit sticky, so I can control the pedal better. (I drive 'backwards' anyway, with the pedal turned around, high side closer to me.)
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