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Tips and Techniques

Do you sew with your sewing machine tilted?

Try using 2 or 3 door stops, or art gum erasers. The rubber contains the vibration  and how very inexpensive! (found on the products page).

 

Hard time getting the beginning and end of your 1/2 square triangles sewn with out bunching  up?

Use an awl, large embroidery needle, stiletto, bamboo skewer to keep the point of the fabric exactly where it belongs.  Hold it in the middle of the pressure foot at the beginning and at the end. (these can be found on the products  page).

 

Does your thread break especially when quilting or free motioning?

Use Sewers Aid.  (found on the products page)  A non greasy silicone you put on your spool of thread.  Very affordable and once you use it you will always carry a bottle with you.

 

Okay.  You have a new machine and you want to use the decorative stitches. Uh oh, no matter what you do the fabric does not lay flat.

Stabilize stabilize stabilize! From a dryer sheet, to a piece of notebook paper to iron on paper, freezer paper, tear away, there are too many to mention. You will be amazed what you are not told at the sewing machine shop during the demonstration. A little stabilizer is like magic. It’s not your machine at all, it is just that the fabric can’t absorb all that thread in a small space and when you put a stabilizer under it.......  Waaaa   Laaaaa (See stabilizer’s to decide which one is right for your project).

 

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