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Hop Align
$29.95

Hopping Foot Alignment Tool

Is your needle perfectly centered in your hopping foot?
Is your hopping foot the proper height above the needle plate?

This new tool will allow you to easily adjust the height of your hopping foot and will also center the needle in the hopping foot.

It is very difficult to get the needle exactly centered in the hopping foot. If the needle isn't perfectly centered in the hopping foot, it becomes impossible to position an acrylic guide 1/4" from a specific point on the quilt, and expect to hit it. This new tool ensures that the needle is perfectly centered.

Setting the height of the hopping foot the old way is not very easy. You've probably been told to set the height of the hopping foot using two or three business cards (or a dime). But the needle plate on the Gammill quilting machines has a hump in the middle of it. So do you measure the height from the top of the hump, or from the bottom of the hump? This tool eliminates that concern.

It has three different height settings so you can adjust the hopping foot easily, based on the thickness of your quilt. We like to adjust the bottom of the hopping foot to be even with the top of the hump. So we use the Medium slot on the tool. This works with 95% of our quilts. If you ever get an extra thick quilt, or an extra thin quilt, you can use the High or Low slots.