Very nice to have older men learning to hand sew. Thank you for your tutorial. Beginner hand sewer, here. Electric sewing machines intimidate me, so I’m learning about hand sewing, while saving up for either a hand cranked or a treadle sewing machine. UPDATE: As of yesterday, I’ve brought home an antique treadle sewing machine. Singer Model 12, made in 1877. The elderly gentleman who sold it to me even sat at the machine & showed me that it worked. First thing I did was take all of the thread out & learn how to thread the shuttle, thread up the machine & the needle, today I will thread my bobbins. This treadle sewing machine only does a straight stitch, so, learning all the other stitches will need to be done.
You are a gifted teacher. Well done. Thank you for not having annoying background music. Thank you for getting right to the instruction, for your clear explanations, and for beginning at the beginning.
I appreciate it! It is one of my favorite tools. It is (as you know) so vital if you’re going to construct clothing with needle and thread. I’ve gotten to a point where I really can’t sew without it. All the best to you!
I want to thank you so very much. You are the ONLY one on the whole internet teaching this the way we might have learned from our grandmother. Your instructions are thorough and historically accurate (I'm confident you are). No one explains the way you do. I have been buying books, even vintage early 1900s books written for school teachers. But your videos cannot be beat. What a great gift this is. Thank you for your careful teaching and demonstration. I will watch every video over and over, while practicing. Please do more !
Love your defence of hand sewing!! :) I hate machines & don't own one, so hand sewing it is. Only, most people seem to think hand sewing is for crazy people only, or those with way too much time on their hands, both annoying attitudes. As you say here, hand sewing came first, machines only after, in fact a lot after, as *everything* was hand-sewn up to about 1860!
My grandma recently passed away and collected thimbles, which the grandchildren are getting. Thank you for demonstrating how to use it so I can remember her each time I put it on. ❤️
Remember that this is only one way of using the thimble. Many, many people push the needle with the top of the thimble, not the side. You get much more "power" this way.
Been doing leather work for some years but when the little one asked if i could sew her Halloween costume that she accidentally ripped i had to turn to youtube. Watched a couple videos but this one was amazing and i felt like heart and soul went into it. Im no expert after watching it, but i feel great that my daughter has a mended costume 🙂
I’ve moved to Singapore and couldn’t take my sewing machine, serger and all the paraphernalia I have at home, with me. I miss making clothes and thought it would be a challenge to sew something entirely by hand. You’ve given me hope that I can do it. Going to give it a try. Very excited. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for this. I want to be able to be mobile when I'm sewing. I also figure humans went without a sewing machine for so long, why do I 'need' one. So happy to have found your channel!
You’re welcome, that is fantastic to know. Hand sewing is so great to move around with. You are so right- It’s how people sewed for longer than a sewing machine has been around. I’m so glad you found my videos. Happy sewing!!
Thank you for finally showing me the secret to my grandmother’s even stitches 🤣! Whenever I’ve had to do a little hand sewing, I would try and try to get my stitches small and even like hers were, to no avail. When you explained how to get backstitches even, I understood how she did it, especially when you showed your finished stitches!!!
I developed a love for sewing when I was 9 years old. My mother showed me how to make a dress for my doll. It turned out so terrible but I thought it was pretty.
@@sewncompany No that was 1972. LOl. My siblings thaught it was very ugly but they were trying to be nice not to hurt my feelings and said it was pretty. Mean while the doll was in bad shape as well. I must have washed her hair 100 times. We had a large family 7 kids. And not alot of money I got a new doll once a year for Christmas. I made that dolls dress from old clothing.
@@bargeld09 omg the hair! My poor dolls had rats nests. It’s funny how I loved to play with their clothes but I never made them clothing. I think my mom still has her old Barbie’s with some of her and my aunts dresses they made. I remember they were pretty rough around the edges.
@@sewncompany I wanted a new dress for my doll and my mother could not by a new one so she suggested to make one but I guess to teach.me something she had me do it.
Thank you.I loved how you paused to collect your thoughts. You didn’t act silly or edit it out. Thank you. This certainly has encouraged me to do more by hand just for the calmness of it. Thanks again.
5:04 Knotting the thread-this is the most helpful sewing hint since I can remember. I've been bumbling along for decades, not knowing this wonderful, simple, time-saving tip! Thanks for saving me oodles of time!
You had me at "very easy to transport"!! I live in a very small space with a toddler and I can't pull out the sewing machine and I'm always afraid that the baby or the dog finding something on the floor and putting it in their mouths. I can't wait to learn hand sewing and do small projects. Thank you!
I was in my (eek!) forty’s when I learned “hand sewing” was “couture!” Wish I knew that back in my Barbie cloths making days. I was quite good. And this is when I fell in love with the Art ❤️
What a surprise to find the first two comments I see also from guys. I've worked with my hands all my life as a woodworker and other various crafts and being curious and self sufficient I thought I'd check this video out. I hear so often people putting down the young people of today, videos like this are proof that there are plenty of young people doing cool things. Keep up the good work. You are so right, hand work does connect us all.
I have nothing but thank you's for your excellent video! I'm a 68-year old male retired teacher, who has been sewing, knitting, and crocheting since I was 13, but I learned a couple of new things from you: knotting thread so easily, and using a thimble, as you illustrated. I deeply appreciate your information, since I just started back sewing. Bless you for the beautiful gift that you have!
THANK YOU!!! Your video is so simple yet I now find myself hand sewing my daughters clothing. It all started with needing to turn a pair of her pants into shorts. Thanks to you, she now has a new wardrobe in the making. I find hand sewing so relaxing and takes my mind off things I need to get away from for the evening. Bless you!
My goal last year was to improve all my sewing skills: sewing clothes and embroidery. Our school lacked enough sewing machines and the teacher spent all her time on the advanced sewers, the rest of us had to use hand stitches. My ex-military father taught me to mend and a neighbor or two taught me to knit and embroider (all as a child). I got my own sewing machine later and started copying store bought clothes and they don't hand sew. Seeing you reminded me of my former school and family training. Good job. I just watched what is now called slow sewing. It ended up being the stitches you are showing. Wonderful and interesting techniques to embroider and to do buildings in your design. Some did applique crafts using the stitches too.
Hello! I just found your channel. I am a mom that would like to learn how to hand sew. I just learned a little bit from watching my mom, but couldn't learn more as she passed away. Anyways, could you do more videos for beginners and things that a beginners can start sewing? Thank you for your patience and easy instructions.
I am really excited to hear you are interested in hand sewing. Have you had a chance to look at my other tutorials? They are all geared to beginners. I also have several workshops for beginners at www.sewncompany.com. What projects are you interested in?
@@sewncompanythank you for replying. I need to check your other videos. I'm interested in learning how to hem and mend old clothes. Also, in how to make dresses (I have a daughter).... at the moment I don't own a sewing machine bc I don't know the basic which is hand sewing. Anyways my point is to start from the basic to start creating on a sewing machine.
You're right about people in public being fascinated with hand sewing or crocheting. I usually crochet while waiting to see the doctor, and once I looked up to see everyone watching my hands as if they were all hypnotized. It was funny and cute. BTW, what you call a hem stitch, my mother called a running stitch but her hem stitching was different in that the stitches that show on the right side were tiny and hard to see because she only picked up 2 or 3 threads. It takes longer but looks nice.
I really like the face to face(camera) at the end- not sure exactly why... but something about it got me to feel encouraged and suddenly more positively motivated to get right back to work on some unfinished projects I only thought I had lost interest in! Thanks Chica. 🤘🙏
30 yo dad of a cute little redhead girl and I want to make her some dresses ❤ I already made my first bowtie for work. Thank you for an awesome tutorial.
I’m so excited to find this channel! I didn’t get to learn from Aunt Mamie and MaKitsey how they sewed their clothes so invisibly. Also, I appreciate the THIMBLE directions! My mother used the tip, rather than the side and her ring finger. I have tried for decades to make that work for me, to no avail. I’m going, this instant, to sort through all the new and ancient thimbles I have inherited to see if there is one that fits me. Surely at least one of my ancestors had fingers like mine.
I got a set of new reusable masks the other day that didn't have a wire across the nose and I had to drive a co-worker across town. I could barely see bc my glasses fogged up! So I'm hand sewing bias tape on them that the wires slide into and I always come to Sarah first to have my memory refreshed on how to sew!
So I watched this video about a week ago and I did my first sewing today. I had a strap on a dress break and so I sewed it up. Thank you for showing me how to do it.
Thank you so much for your tutorial. That's so helpful and easy to understand thanks to your calm way of explaining and showing it. I always envy people who have sewing machines but I have neither space nor money to get one. I will follow your tutorials and really look forward to learn how to sew by hand 🌻
I was looking for a video to learn how to make a hand roll hem as I want to make my own pocket squares. You inspire people Sarah. Thank you so much and keep it on!
Thank you, this is such a great video demonstrations and I loved your wisdom sharing at the end, pure gold 🥰🙏 I totally agree its so vip to keep in touch with these older skills, there is something beyond words about this connection to our past 🙂
I am a male but thank you for your excellent tutorial of needle sewing. I am a new beginner and I love sewing with needle but with your sharing I may start doing so and have a nice day. Thank you.
I'm so happy I found your channel. I have big interest in hand sewing. I love to hand sew my own clothes but I feel I need some guidance since I feel my stitches doesn't look as good as I wish. Thank you for your videos!
My name is Mona I'm 67 I enjoy finding your channel here and your app whenever they gone and seeing the sewing my mom passed on and 98 1984 and I miss her but I'm glad she's in heaven but she was a fantastic sower she didn't think she was but she was and when she sewed something together you couldn't tell I machine didn't do it she loved doing it by hand matter fact she gave her Singer sewing machine away because she prefer doing things by hand and she sold some dresses for my daughter her granddaughter and she called it a straight stitch but I think it was a back stitch she was doing because the second stitch you did there it was exactly the way she stitched and it look it look perfect I mean it really look like a machine it done it and she wasn't trying to do it that way that's just the way she soldI appreciate you showing people though how to do it by hand I think it's getting to be a lost art and it's a really a shame because once you do some I'm a Nidoran a crochet hair and I can't see good it's hard for me to do that but I still do it once you create something from your hands then no machine Head touch no other person is Dutch there's something very satisfying about that specially when it's something you make for somebody else and people can do it think it's important to learn to do it by hand even if you're going to use it's not that you can't have both but I think people should learn to do it from scratch by hand ✋👌👌 thanks again God bless you
Thank You for your clear înstruction and your encouragement. When I was younger I did learn how to knot thIs way, but forgot since stopped hand sewing, super excited to be reminded now. I feel fortunate to find your channel!
A side effect of compulsory military service in the 1970's was that you left the army with an obsession for perfect ironing and with the skills to use a needle and thread for clothing repairs, darning socks or sewing on buttons. Without ever having received even a minute of instruction, I had to work out how to hem trousers, fix rips in clothing, sew on name tags and rank patches or sewng on buttons. Thanks for this, I always thought I should notch up my basic skills by another level.
Brand new into sewing. This video was beyond helpful. Loved the tutorial, as well as the message of connecting and being present. THANK YOU! Looking forward to checking out your other videos!
Thank you for the reminder of how to do this. How to hide the thread tail demonstration near the end is fabulous. Keeping it neat and tidy is always my preference.
Hand sewing is why I wanted to learn how to quilt - from hand piecing through the actually quilting to finish. Remember: it's all done with a running stitch!
I'm 67 and learned sewing in school, hand and machine sewing. I had a treadle sewing machine at home. If I need tension hand stitching , I single pin the fabric onto a cushion on my lap and then sew, moving the pin as needed. Works great for hemming, or any stitch.
thank you for including advice on how to lessen hand pain! i'm disabled and because of that i've put off learning how to handsew for years. with your advice and a wrist brace, though, it was a lot more tolerable than i thought it would be. i didn't even need a painkiller!!
Such a great tutorial! I was feeling frustrated as a beginner watching other videos and this was so incredibly clear and helpful. Off to a much better start now. Thank you!
I love that there is video instruction out there and you did a great job. I would have liked to have had it zoomed in further to see what you were doing better.❤
when i was a kid, my mother taught me all of these but i didnt listen, and now that shes gone i really regret not listening to her sewing lessons. thank you for this. this made me very nostalgic. also, is that a thimble pendant? awesome. 👌🏼
Great videos. I've watched some a few times. I think it's cool that you reiterate, "what your hands can do." Thanks for sharing such great information.
Thank you! I've been watching hundreds of videos and there was always something that left me with more unanswered questions, bothered me with to much frilliness (loud music, derivations from the subject, taglines, etc), filled with terms that I don't understand or skipping steps I haven't learned yet, but yours was concise, well timed, educational and complete! I will absolutely recommend this video to others!
Thank you so much for uploading this video and the entire playlist, I want to start with hand sewing and this video is incredibly helpful. You also have a wonderfully warm and genuine energy, I really enjoy your videos
I've been wanting to learn how to quilt and start my own business with quilts and I don't have the funds for a sewing machine, these videos are so nice to watch and so easy to follow. Thank you for uploading these 🥰
So happy to have found this video in particular. Wish I'd known about your videos over two years ago by now. I had a sewing teacher pair of women who were absolutely the wrong fit for me, and things went downhill for me because of a few arguments with my mom regarding an incident between myself and one of the two women. Really it was mild and not a big deal, my mom and the woman just thought I was deliberately ignoring or being dismissive of her in the grocery store at the checkout aisle of all places, when really I was just distracted by unloading the cart onto the register because there was another customer behind us so I was distracted. I wasn't don't anything wrong, but I was the bad guy and it was like the last straw for me because I'd already gotten sick of sewing because I wanted to do more than what they were teaching, and I needed help a few times at home but mom couldn't help me, so I just gave up on sewing for a long while. I think if I'd had your videos back then, I would have gotten back into sewing much sooner because you explain things so well. Keep the videos coming please - I'll definitely watch them even when I'm not sewing anything because it's just fun and relaxing for me to watch stitching videos
So glad this is helpful to you and is getting you back into sewing! The teacher definitely matters for hand skills. Sorry you had a frustrating experience! Hope you enjoy the videos on the channel! Happy sewing!!
I practiced along with the video and learnt so much in a short space of time. Thank you so much. I will watch any other videos you have on hand stitching.
That's so funny I just read a comment above just like mine. For a 50-year-old dude who's never learned to sew You've been my first sewing teacher! Now I can sew back the bottom halfs of my half shirts that I used to think were so trendy. Haha!
You are such an inspiration! I just LOVE YOU! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful skills and for honoring the past as you do! You're 100% correct! I love what you said! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! Subbie For Life!
Thank you for your great advice. I was stitching hexes and my wrist constantly was hurting and didn't realize there was a way to hold your needle in place.
This is so helpful! I am beginning my journey to quilting. For a minute there I was not sure if it was possible to make a quilt by hand because all of the beginner tutorials were with a machine. Thank you for sharing!
I've always wanted to create clothing for myself, but I'm literally afraid of sewing machines. I've had some limited experience with them that wasn't positive. I don't know why it took me so long to think of the fact that sewing existed long before machines...but regardless, I want to give it a try. Thank you for this very clear tutorial!
Your channel came up on my feed and I am very very grateful it did I myself enjoy hand sewing and my next dress I make will been done in just that... My daughter at 11 wants to learn how to hand sew.. Thank you so much for showing a need to know art
From a middle-aged, male beginner, thank you so much for this very thorough tutorial. I especially appreciate how you pour your heart into it :)
Thanks for your kind comment! I’m glad it was so helpful to you!!
I will second this gentleman's sentiment. Thank you for the easy to understand tutorial.
Agree 100% almost 50 and just learning.
Very nice to have older men learning to hand sew.
Thank you for your tutorial. Beginner hand sewer, here.
Electric sewing machines intimidate me, so I’m learning about hand sewing, while saving up for either a hand cranked or a treadle sewing machine.
UPDATE: As of yesterday, I’ve brought home an antique treadle sewing machine. Singer Model 12, made in 1877. The elderly gentleman who sold it to me even sat at the machine & showed me that it worked. First thing I did was take all of the thread out & learn how to thread the shuttle, thread up the machine & the needle, today I will thread my bobbins. This treadle sewing machine only does a straight stitch, so, learning all the other stitches will need to be done.
I’m a middle aged beginner too! Good for us!
You are a gifted teacher. Well done. Thank you for not having annoying background music. Thank you for getting right to the instruction, for your clear explanations, and for beginning at the beginning.
Amen to that! 🙏✝️🇺🇸 So many videos are ruined by the awful annoying loud music. 😖
Yes!! You are a Good teacher !! And I'm So Glad, Not To have irritating music playing, while watching! ❤❤❤ listening .
Amen to that! And thanks so much for your wonderful talent of teaching!
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Well said.
I am a tailor (Savile Row's school). Happy to see someone that is still using the thimble. Best wishes.
I appreciate it! It is one of my favorite tools. It is (as you know) so vital if you’re going to construct clothing with needle and thread. I’ve gotten to a point where I really can’t sew without it. All the best to you!
I want to thank you so very much. You are the ONLY one on the whole internet teaching this the way we might have learned from our grandmother. Your instructions are thorough and historically accurate (I'm confident you are). No one explains the way you do. I have been buying books, even vintage early 1900s books written for school teachers. But your videos cannot be beat. What a great gift this is. Thank you for your careful teaching and demonstration. I will watch every video over and over, while practicing. Please do more !
Love your defence of hand sewing!! :) I hate machines & don't own one, so hand sewing it is. Only, most people seem to think hand sewing is for crazy people only, or those with way too much time on their hands, both annoying attitudes. As you say here, hand sewing came first, machines only after, in fact a lot after, as *everything* was hand-sewn up to about 1860!
My grandma recently passed away and collected thimbles, which the grandchildren are getting. Thank you for demonstrating how to use it so I can remember her each time I put it on. ❤️
I’m sorry to hear of your grandmothers passing. Using the thimble is a beautiful way to connect to her!! I love that so much. ❤️
Remember that this is only one way of using the thimble. Many, many people push the needle with the top of the thimble, not the side. You get much more "power" this way.
@@irmar good for thicker fabrics like drill cotton or denim.
Sweet.
Been doing leather work for some years but when the little one asked if i could sew her Halloween costume that she accidentally ripped i had to turn to youtube. Watched a couple videos but this one was amazing and i felt like heart and soul went into it. Im no expert after watching it, but i feel great that my daughter has a mended costume 🙂
I’m so glad this video helped you mend her costume! Yes- a lot of love went into this. I love handsewing and love spreading that love!
@@sewncompany I'mh8
I have never before heard to wear the thimble around the house for a week to get used to wearing it! Brilliant! Thanks! 😊
Yeah.
I’ve moved to Singapore and couldn’t take my sewing machine, serger and all the paraphernalia I have at home, with me. I miss making clothes and thought it would be a challenge to sew something entirely by hand. You’ve given me hope that I can do it. Going to give it a try. Very excited. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for this. I want to be able to be mobile when I'm sewing. I also figure humans went without a sewing machine for so long, why do I 'need' one. So happy to have found your channel!
You’re welcome, that is fantastic to know. Hand sewing is so great to move around with. You are so right- It’s how people sewed for longer than a sewing machine has been around. I’m so glad you found my videos. Happy sewing!!
Thank you for finally showing me the secret to my grandmother’s even stitches 🤣! Whenever I’ve had to do a little hand sewing, I would try and try to get my stitches small and even like hers were, to no avail. When you explained how to get backstitches even, I understood how she did it, especially when you showed your finished stitches!!!
Thank you sister for teaching me how to stitch with hands. God bless you and your family.
Thank you I am just learning and I am 71. I saved your channel and subscribed
My grandmother taught me these things when I was 8 yrs old. Thx for the refresher. This hand stitching is therapy for me.
Sadly, not passed on to next generation. 😢
I developed a love for sewing when I was 9 years old. My mother showed me how to make a dress for my doll. It turned out so terrible but I thought it was pretty.
That’s such a great memory! Do you still have the doll dress?
@@sewncompany No that was 1972. LOl. My siblings thaught it was very ugly but they were trying to be nice not to hurt my feelings and said it was pretty. Mean while the doll was in bad shape as well. I must have washed her hair 100 times. We had a large family 7 kids. And not alot of money I got a new doll once a year for Christmas. I made that dolls dress from old clothing.
@@bargeld09 omg the hair! My poor dolls had rats nests. It’s funny how I loved to play with their clothes but I never made them clothing. I think my mom still has her old Barbie’s with some of her and my aunts dresses they made. I remember they were pretty rough around the edges.
@@sewncompany I wanted a new dress for my doll and my mother could not by a new one so she suggested to make one but I guess to teach.me something she had me do it.
Hand sewing along with knitting and crocheting is another way to fight off arthritis from settling in the fingers.
Thank you.I loved how you paused to collect your thoughts. You didn’t act silly or edit it out. Thank you. This certainly has encouraged me to do more by hand just for the calmness of it. Thanks again.
5:04 Knotting the thread-this is the most helpful sewing hint since I can remember. I've been bumbling along for decades, not knowing this wonderful, simple, time-saving tip! Thanks for saving me oodles of time!
You had me at "very easy to transport"!! I live in a very small space with a toddler and I can't pull out the sewing machine and I'm always afraid that the baby or the dog finding something on the floor and putting it in their mouths. I can't wait to learn hand sewing and do small projects. Thank you!
I was in my (eek!) forty’s when I learned “hand sewing” was “couture!” Wish I knew that back in my Barbie cloths making days. I was quite good. And this is when I fell in love with the Art ❤️
What a surprise to find the first two comments I see also from guys. I've worked with my hands all my life as a woodworker and other various crafts and being curious and self sufficient I thought I'd check this video out.
I hear so often people putting down the young people of today, videos like this are proof that there are plenty of young people doing cool things. Keep up the good work. You are so right, hand work does connect us all.
I have nothing but thank you's for your excellent video! I'm a 68-year old male retired teacher, who has been sewing, knitting, and crocheting since I was 13, but I learned a couple of new things from you: knotting thread so easily, and using a thimble, as you illustrated. I deeply appreciate your information, since I just started back sewing. Bless you for the beautiful gift that you have!
THANK YOU!!! Your video is so simple yet I now find myself hand sewing my daughters clothing. It all started with needing to turn a pair of her pants into shorts. Thanks to you, she now has a new wardrobe in the making. I find hand sewing so relaxing and takes my mind off things I need to get away from for the evening. Bless you!
You’re a great teacher. I’m feeling very inspired now. I don’t need to buy a sewing machine. Thank you!
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I'm sewing my sailboat canvas right now. Saving a ton of money. Thought it's more complicated and less fun! All thanks to you!
If you have trouble with thimbles like I do, leather thimbles are available at places like Jo-Ann Fabrics and I find them easier to use.
My goal last year was to improve all my sewing skills: sewing clothes and embroidery. Our school lacked enough sewing machines and the teacher spent all her time on the advanced sewers, the rest of us had to use hand stitches. My ex-military father taught me to mend and a neighbor or two taught me to knit and embroider (all as a child). I got my own sewing machine later and started copying store bought clothes and they don't hand sew. Seeing you reminded me of my former school and family training. Good job.
I just watched what is now called slow sewing. It ended up being the stitches you are showing. Wonderful and interesting techniques to embroider and to do buildings in your design. Some did applique crafts using the stitches too.
I have never before heard to wear the thimble around the house for a week to get used to wearing it! Brilliant! Thanks!
Hello! I just found your channel. I am a mom that would like to learn how to hand sew. I just learned a little bit from watching my mom, but couldn't learn more as she passed away. Anyways, could you do more videos for beginners and things that a beginners can start sewing? Thank you for your patience and easy instructions.
I am really excited to hear you are interested in hand sewing. Have you had a chance to look at my other tutorials? They are all geared to beginners. I also have several workshops for beginners at www.sewncompany.com. What projects are you interested in?
@@sewncompanythank you for replying. I need to check your other videos. I'm interested in learning how to hem and mend old clothes. Also, in how to make dresses (I have a daughter).... at the moment I don't own a sewing machine bc I don't know the basic which is hand sewing. Anyways my point is to start from the basic to start creating on a sewing machine.
You're right about people in public being fascinated with hand sewing or crocheting. I usually crochet while waiting to see the doctor, and once I looked up to see everyone watching my hands as if they were all hypnotized. It was funny and cute. BTW, what you call a hem stitch, my mother called a running stitch but her hem stitching was different in that the stitches that show on the right side were tiny and hard to see because she only picked up 2 or 3 threads. It takes longer but looks nice.
I really like the face to face(camera) at the end- not sure exactly why... but something about it got me to feel encouraged and suddenly more positively motivated to get right back to work on some unfinished projects I only thought I had lost interest in! Thanks Chica. 🤘🙏
30 yo dad of a cute little redhead girl and I want to make her some dresses ❤ I already made my first bowtie for work.
Thank you for an awesome tutorial.
Thank you so much. My daughter has been asking me about hand sewing and now I can teach her some ❤️🙂
Wonderful!! Happy sewing!
This is a great tutorial! The camera angles made it easy to see what you're doing, and the instructions were clear and helpful.
Thank you!
I’m so excited to find this channel! I didn’t get to learn from Aunt Mamie and MaKitsey how they sewed their clothes so invisibly. Also, I appreciate the THIMBLE directions! My mother used the tip, rather than the side and her ring finger. I have tried for decades to make that work for me, to no avail. I’m going, this instant, to sort through all the new and ancient thimbles I have inherited to see if there is one that fits me. Surely at least one of my ancestors had fingers like mine.
I got a set of new reusable masks the other day that didn't have a wire across the nose and I had to drive a co-worker across town. I could barely see bc my glasses fogged up! So I'm hand sewing bias tape on them that the wires slide into and I always come to Sarah first to have my memory refreshed on how to sew!
So sorry you still have to wear a mask
Hand sewing in today’s hurry up hyper world is so relaxing and meditative. I love it.
I think you are an excellent teacher. Thank you. Good tutorial.
Thank you!
So I watched this video about a week ago and I did my first sewing today. I had a strap on a dress break and so I sewed it up. Thank you for showing me how to do it.
I'm not a beginner, but you didn't make it condescending. Thank you. I do know how to sew by hand, but I watched for the tips. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your tutorial. That's so helpful and easy to understand thanks to your calm way of explaining and showing it. I always envy people who have sewing machines but I have neither space nor money to get one. I will follow your tutorials and really look forward to learn how to sew by hand 🌻
You’re welcome! Enjoy the other tutorials. Happy sewing!
thanks so much for the help,my son really needed this so he can do his project ✌✌
Thank you for this! I love to hand sew. Running to the sewing machine is not always the best option.
You have an easy and mellow way of explaining sewing. Thank you.
I was looking for a video to learn how to make a hand roll hem as I want to make my own pocket squares. You inspire people Sarah. Thank you so much and keep it on!
Very cool! I have a video for that technique. I hope you found it. And thank you for the encouragement. It means a lot. Happy sewing!
@@sewncompany I did! Thank you again!
Oh my Gosh- the ergonomic tips are everything 💫💫💫 thank you!!! - a massage therapist-
Good lesson. I also appreciate the ergonomic lesson in here. Healthy technique is so important.
This is very useful for new parents as well. Thank you for the help.
It's a soothing and lovely art of hand sewing..thanks
haven’t started my journey, but took notes. thank youu so much🙌
Thank you, this is such a great video demonstrations and I loved your wisdom sharing at the end, pure gold 🥰🙏 I totally agree its so vip to keep in touch with these older skills, there is something beyond words about this connection to our past 🙂
I am a male but thank you for your excellent tutorial of needle sewing. I am a new beginner and I love sewing with needle but with your sharing I may start doing so and have a nice day. Thank you.
You’re welcome!
I'm so happy I found your channel. I have big interest in hand sewing. I love to hand sew my own clothes but I feel I need some guidance since I feel my stitches doesn't look as good as I wish. Thank you for your videos!
My name is Mona I'm 67 I enjoy finding your channel here and your app whenever they gone and seeing the sewing my mom passed on and 98 1984 and I miss her but I'm glad she's in heaven but she was a fantastic sower she didn't think she was but she was and when she sewed something together you couldn't tell I machine didn't do it she loved doing it by hand matter fact she gave her Singer sewing machine away because she prefer doing things by hand and she sold some dresses for my daughter her granddaughter and she called it a straight stitch but I think it was a back stitch she was doing because the second stitch you did there it was exactly the way she stitched and it look it look perfect I mean it really look like a machine it done it and she wasn't trying to do it that way that's just the way she soldI appreciate you showing people though how to do it by hand I think it's getting to be a lost art and it's a really a shame because once you do some I'm a Nidoran a crochet hair and I can't see good it's hard for me to do that but I still do it once you create something from your hands then no machine Head touch no other person is Dutch there's something very satisfying about that specially when it's something you make for somebody else and people can do it think it's important to learn to do it by hand even if you're going to use it's not that you can't have both but I think people should learn to do it from scratch by hand ✋👌👌 thanks again God bless you
Thank You for your clear înstruction and your encouragement. When I was younger I did learn how to knot thIs way, but forgot since stopped hand sewing, super excited to be reminded now. I feel fortunate to find your channel!
A side effect of compulsory military service in the 1970's was that you left the army with an obsession for perfect ironing and with the skills to use a needle and thread for clothing repairs, darning socks or sewing on buttons. Without ever having received even a minute of instruction, I had to work out how to hem trousers, fix rips in clothing, sew on name tags and rank patches or sewng on buttons.
Thanks for this, I always thought I should notch up my basic skills by another level.
you are a great teacher!!! Happy to found you !!! thanks
Thank you!! I’m so glad this is helpful!!
Thanks so much. Now day no one shows how to sew without a sewing machine.
You’re welcome!! So important to know to sew without a sewing machine!
Brand new into sewing. This video was beyond helpful. Loved the tutorial, as well as the message of connecting and being present. THANK YOU! Looking forward to checking out your other videos!
Great video. I sew by hand and I really needed these amazing ideas on how to achieve different stitches. Thank you 😊
I totally enjoyed and learned new stitching methods here. Thank you very much!
Thank you for the reminder of how to do this. How to hide the thread tail demonstration near the end is fabulous. Keeping it neat and tidy is always my preference.
This is excellent - very clear and easy for me - thank you for this tutorial !
I fell in love with your channel right away. I had to subscribe. Thank for your work.
Hand sewing is why I wanted to learn how to quilt - from hand piecing through the actually quilting to finish. Remember: it's all done with a running stitch!
I'm 67 and learned sewing in school, hand and machine sewing. I had a treadle sewing machine at home. If I need tension hand stitching , I single pin the fabric onto a cushion on my lap and then sew, moving the pin as needed. Works great for hemming, or any stitch.
That's a good tip, hadn't thought of that, Thanks!
I like the idea of hand sewing being a prayer or meditation. Tfs 🙏
Me too! You’re welcome! 💗
WOW! I have watched a lot of hem stitching, and this video helped it click how to do it. Thanks.
thank you for including advice on how to lessen hand pain! i'm disabled and because of that i've put off learning how to handsew for years. with your advice and a wrist brace, though, it was a lot more tolerable than i thought it would be. i didn't even need a painkiller!!
Oh my goodness!! That is so amazing!!
Such a great tutorial! I was feeling frustrated as a beginner watching other videos and this was so incredibly clear and helpful. Off to a much better start now. Thank you!
I love that there is video instruction out there and you did a great job. I would have liked to have had it zoomed in further to see what you were doing better.❤
Thank you. Loved your hand sewing video!!!
Thank you! Had a project I started years ago, think I will finish it! Plus want to make a few decor projects!
Omg I love this video you are such a sweetheart thank you so much for helping ♥️
when i was a kid, my mother taught me all of these but i didnt listen, and now that shes gone i really regret not listening to her sewing lessons. thank you for this. this made me very nostalgic.
also, is that a thimble pendant? awesome. 👌🏼
Thank you for a simple and easy to follow video!
Great videos. I've watched some a few times. I think it's cool that you reiterate, "what your hands can do." Thanks for sharing such great information.
Young persons!!!! Pray listen, master class of small incremental tips making an amazing lesson. Listen and repeat!!!! Well done young lady!xxx
I love hand sewing, and knitting, and quilting etc., etc. You give some very clear instructions and great at encouraging people to try it.
Thank you again. Informative and fun. Take care.
Thank you! I've been watching hundreds of videos and there was always something that left me with more unanswered questions, bothered me with to much frilliness (loud music, derivations from the subject, taglines, etc), filled with terms that I don't understand or skipping steps I haven't learned yet, but yours was concise, well timed, educational and complete! I will absolutely recommend this video to others!
Thank you so much for uploading this video and the entire playlist, I want to start with hand sewing and this video is incredibly helpful. You also have a wonderfully warm and genuine energy, I really enjoy your videos
I've been wanting to learn how to quilt and start my own business with quilts and I don't have the funds for a sewing machine, these videos are so nice to watch and so easy to follow. Thank you for uploading these 🥰
You’re welcome! Good luck with your quilting business!! Very exciting!!
As a beginner sewer i am currently making historical reenactment costume, and you have saved my life! Thank you so very much from a new fan ❤
Thank you for this. Adding that hand sewing is also accessible for folks who have limited space, or who can't afford a machine.
So happy to have found this video in particular. Wish I'd known about your videos over two years ago by now. I had a sewing teacher pair of women who were absolutely the wrong fit for me, and things went downhill for me because of a few arguments with my mom regarding an incident between myself and one of the two women. Really it was mild and not a big deal, my mom and the woman just thought I was deliberately ignoring or being dismissive of her in the grocery store at the checkout aisle of all places, when really I was just distracted by unloading the cart onto the register because there was another customer behind us so I was distracted. I wasn't don't anything wrong, but I was the bad guy and it was like the last straw for me because I'd already gotten sick of sewing because I wanted to do more than what they were teaching, and I needed help a few times at home but mom couldn't help me, so I just gave up on sewing for a long while. I think if I'd had your videos back then, I would have gotten back into sewing much sooner because you explain things so well. Keep the videos coming please - I'll definitely watch them even when I'm not sewing anything because it's just fun and relaxing for me to watch stitching videos
So glad this is helpful to you and is getting you back into sewing! The teacher definitely matters for hand skills. Sorry you had a frustrating experience! Hope you enjoy the videos on the channel! Happy sewing!!
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stitching a better future would be awesome, thank you for teaching!
I practiced along with the video and learnt so much in a short space of time. Thank you so much. I will watch any other videos you have on hand stitching.
Thank you for this amazing tutorial I’m trying to sew a doll dress for my niece I’ve been practicing and it’s very relaxing
Thank you for being so clear and easy to follow in your instruction. I really appreciate you!❤
That's so funny I just read a comment above just like mine. For a 50-year-old dude who's never learned to sew You've been my first sewing teacher! Now I can sew back the bottom halfs of my half shirts that I used to think were so trendy. Haha!
You are such an inspiration! I just LOVE YOU! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful skills and for honoring the past as you do! You're 100% correct! I love what you said! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! Subbie For Life!
Thank you for your great advice. I was stitching hexes and my wrist constantly was hurting and didn't realize there was a way to hold your needle in place.
This is so helpful! I am beginning my journey to quilting. For a minute there I was not sure if it was possible to make a quilt by hand because all of the beginner tutorials were with a machine. Thank you for sharing!
You're welcome!
You are the best teacher ever! I'm so much more motivated to hand sew, Than you so much!
I have been sewing since I was 8 years old. You did a wonderful job explaining the basics on this video.
I've always wanted to create clothing for myself, but I'm literally afraid of sewing machines. I've had some limited experience with them that wasn't positive. I don't know why it took me so long to think of the fact that sewing existed long before machines...but regardless, I want to give it a try. Thank you for this very clear tutorial!
Thank you .. Great video... I'm a new fan... I love hand stitching..find it so relaxing and soothing.
Thank you for this video. You are a gifted instructor.
Your channel came up on my feed and I am very very grateful it did I myself enjoy hand sewing and my next dress I make will been done in just that... My daughter at 11 wants to learn how to hand sew.. Thank you so much for showing a need to know art
Thank you! I really like the old fashion way. Sewing machines cant do all the work that's just my opinion