After talking to a few people I have decided to start a Sewing Club and and Machine Embroidery Club. I fugured there really are a lot of sewers in this area, but nowhere to get together and show off what you made or get help on something you are stuck on. So I thought why not here, I have the space. I love see other people's projects. Here it does not matter what machine you are working on I will not be a machine snob ( you know if you have been sewing for awhile you are). I do have my favorites, but I think there needs to be a place for people to get together and show off their sewing. Let's get our sewing projects out of theclosets, spare rooms and the dining rooms and show them off to your new sewing friends. If you are stuck you never know there might be an expert that will be there who wants to show their projects off too. I saw a few this week at the ASG that I was very impressed with.
Hope to see you at my little sewing studio.
Maria
http://www.mariasewsalot.com/Pages/Classes.aspx
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Cover Stitch with pictures
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| Cover stitch done with double needle on a knit dress. |
I had to do alterations on some knit dresses and went to price out a cover stitch machine and had sticker shock. I thought well I will just go back to doing things the way I normally do them.
This is how I do a cover stitch
- Shorten hem as always .
- Serge bottom of hem.
- Turn hem under and press with pressing cloth so as not to burn the item.
- Turn the item over, press again and pin hem on the right side of the fabric.
- Insert double needle into your machine. Thread with two spools of thread. Make sure you run both threads through the same tension disk.
- Put your machine into a double needle position if it has one.
- Make sure your serged edge is completely under the presser foot or it will not catch on both sides of the material.
- Use the markings on your sewing machine as a guide to keep you sewing straight.
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| Use measuring lines to keep your stitching straight or you can use masking tape to make lines in between |
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| Under side of dress. Serged edge and bobbin stitching. |
9. Your stitching is complete just make sure you watch the end very careful, because now you have two stitching lines to match up not just one.
Hope this helps if you have any questions just email me.
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