5 Sewing Mistakes you SHOULD make
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- 5 Sewing Mistakes you should absolutely make
Hi Everyone! My name is Samantha, welcome to my RUclips channel - Sewing in Switzerland!
Today is a silly video on 5 sewing mistakes that you should definitely, absolutely make, at least once! I believe it will help make you a better sewist/sewer and improve those skills.
Let me know if you have any to add to the list!
Wishing you all the best,
Sam
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Another brilliant video, Sam. Thank you again for sharing such a thought provoking video. You're right though, people say .... don't do this, but to people to me it is an red flag to go ahead and try it :) Also, noone ever shows you an example of why you should not do something, they just say don't do it.
Being good at maths is often down to the quality of the teaching. At school I was in the middle group and doing really well, so against my wishes they put me into the top group with someone who was doubtless good at maths but not teaching. So they put me down into the bottom group and I don't think I ever passed a maths exam. Later in life I had a job doing statistical analysis!!!!! One of the things that was taught well at my school was sewing, with a brilliant teacher, a skill that I have never forgotten.
OMG, your story about the group 7 maths class is breaking my class. No child should be made to feel like such a failure. Terry Pratchett in one of his interviews said that he believes there is a special place in hell for teachers who tell children they are stupid. I wish I could give student Sam a hug.
To your comment on the grain line I would add one thing. I would say on each piece of fabric you have cut, I would mark where "grainline" is. ie mark the incorrect grainline, maybe use a piece of carbon paper or sewing chalk paper between the pattern and the fabric to mark the grainline on the fabric. That will also be very illuminating as to why grainline is so necessary.
Ooohhh, I am going to try sewing with headphones and see how it feels. I like to have some noise in the background but turn it off if I am about to tackle something that I find I need to concentrate on or else I will make terrible mistakes.
With being bad with numbers, what I do if I need to add say 1/4 of a number, or half a number, is to find that number on my measuring tape and then fold that bit of tape into the desired numbers of pieces. For example if I need half of 10cm, I find the 10cm mark and fold that portion of tape in half and I can visually see that it is 5 cm. I have worked that way for years.
I have used overlocking thread on my sewing machines for years and that includes using it on an industrial machine. My mother insists on using Gutterman thread on her machine but I still use overlocking thread. I would, however, warn against using old thread on a sewing machine. I used a thread that used to below to my grandmother when she used to sew for my father when he was a small boy. That darned thread used to break about every 1 to 2 minutes of sewing. I still use the thread but the spool has a little label on it saying "use for hand tacking only" as I know that at least it will be easy to remove :)
I sew for more then 20 years and I stopped buying branded thread at all. By accident I discovered that if I use embroidery needle for my sewing machine (Janome), I can use whatever thread I have, even the cheapest one, and have perfect seam without skipped stitches, shredded thread and whatever. I bough my Janome before pandemic started and everything was ok while I used needles that came with it. Once I started using standard needles, problem with skipped stitches started. I investigated the problem and discovered that it is usual for Janome and the solution is special Janome needle which was not available in my country. Found it in UK shop but it was very expensive. Found it in Taiwan for much more reasonable price but they did not ship to my country because of pandemic restrictions. I was locked at home with lots of time and limited on-line shops available so I started to compare technical characteristics of different needles and found out that embroidery needles are most similar. Now I sew everything, both knits and wovens, using only embroidery needles. They are tiny bit longer then standard ones that helps not to skip stitches and their holes are bit bigger then usual which is perfect for cheap thread. So I not only found solution to my skipped stitches problem but also can save on thread now. My favorite needles are Organ embroidery antiglue. Inexpensive, hard working and give perfect result every time. What I want to say with this - do not follow blindly brand recommendations. Look deeper and think WHY they are better and don't overpay just for brand.
Hello, this is such an incredible recommendation, thank you. I am always blown away by the creative problem solving sewists/sewers have and the way you reached this fix is so amazing! I have a Singer and will try this on my machine to see if it’s not just Janome’s they work on. I am not an embroiderer so not overly familiar with the needles - do you use a particular size needle? I always recommend to beginners using a newly purchased, branded thread so they can eliminate a potential problem right away, especially as they can often encounter those skipped stitches etc. Do you find they blunt quicker or snap or anything like that? Such a cool fix, looking forward to trying it out!! 😘😘❤️
@@SewinginSwitzerland it is just standard 75/11 size sharp needle. Costs couple of euros per 5 needle box. I am sewing with it mainly knits (80% of my time) and replacing only when it starts to feel bad (probably every 8-10 garment). No, it does not cut my knit fabric, there are no holes and it does not run. Lots of leggings, pajamas, t-shirts and panties sewn for whole family. I am 55 and have grown up with old good Singer sewing machine and my mom and grandma never changed needles unless they have broken. When I got my first Pfaff 30 years ago it was good with any needle I had so I was very confused when my new Janome started to behave poorly. I bought best needles and best thread available and it behaved well for a very short time and then again started to skip stitches and even break the thread. Serviced my sewing machine twice, it did not help much. It was very annoying. If pandemic hasn't started, probably I would just look for another machine but now I am very happy with it because simple embroidery needle solved all my problems.
There may not be sewing goblins in your cupboards, but I bet there are sewing police under the desk ready to arrest you for uttering such a heracy as "Sew a project without pressing seams". What about picking a small project and press the seams on one side of the project and not on the other? That might be interesting. It might also make a short video for you.