Hoodie Dress-Zipper problem...

I've been haunting the edges of sewing for about 20 years. Always intending to sew like crazy, only ever mending, adjusting, or ...combining i guess? The point; I don't know my machine like I should. I cannot find the booklet, I tried googling a how to, and I absolutely CANNOT figure out how on my own how to attach this crazy convoluted zipper foot from hell.... I'm using a brother XL 2037... and this:




Idk if I if I did that correctly....

My project is a combination of the t-shirt Hoodie tute and the Rockabilly circle skirt tute:



I have a pretty green zipper I really wanna attach but.... unless I get that zipper foot on there, it's gonna be all crappy-like.

..... so I guess it didn't work... sorry.... and yes, this is a plea for help (I forgot to actually ASK) ... I'm a lil frazzled at this point... trying again for the pix....
Zipper Foot


Dress

Sigh. I gave up. I think that was a invisible zipper foot perhaps? Whatever. I just used the normal one... not ideal, but it's sewn on! Now I just gotta finish the armholes, put on sum pockets and embroider sum bugs.






It's not perfect, but hey, it IS my first dress without a pattern...sorta. Does a wrap skirt I wear as a dress count?

That's weird- when I was reading that message from my tablet pc I could see the pic of the foot, now I'm on my laptop I can't see it

But anyhoo - I was changing my sewing machine foot, its not the same foot as yours or the same machine but I think universal feet are mostly the same or similar to change. (I've not bought or used that many sewing machines but that's the impression I get) So without further ado;



Theres a little screw on the left of the foot that you need to unscrew, the foot will fall down after a few turns but it's easiest to remove the screw completely in order to fit the new foot



Slide the new foot under from the right in a scooping motion to the left and align with the screw hole, this bit's a bit fiddly - you need to hold the foot in place while you screw it in place



and here's the new foot - ta da! Hope this helps - the zipper foot that came with my machine is a lot easier to fit, it's just a case of lifting a lever (just seen in first pic behind the arrow head) and swapping the foot over, but this is how it's done when the 'leg' is attached.

P.S - I think the dress is cute, hope it all goes well x

I have a Brother (can;t rem what make) and there's a release button for the feet -no screws. You'll know if you've hit it because the foot will fall off onto the feed dogs.

Thanks guys! I still don't know WHAT the heck was up with that funky thing! I've decided to pretend I never saw it before and buy me a new, regular zipper foot so's I *can* simply flick the lever and swap out like a normal person!

The dress is comin' along, got me some sleeves now, nervous about some new fangled pockets I wanna try (saw 'em on an apron wen I went to buy more thread at my local fabric shop). .... practice on some scrap i guess.....

So I've got this crazy idea to imitate the iconic "poodle skirt" but instead of a poodle on a leash, I'm gonna embroider one of my favorite things to draw:

a staghorn beetle (sorta- I modeled it after a rubber toy, prolly not a staghorn per se) with a dashed line to show he crawled out of my pocket....

I'm thinking black thread for pop. I wanna make sure it's noticeable!

okay, maybe I will try really hard later to see if that awesome lil instructional can get it to happen... I does look rather different though... I kinda hate my machine, want to learn how to use the old singer I have instead.