3 Top Sewing Tips To Wet Your Early Morning Whistle.

Good to see you again sewing addicts, get your morning off to a great start with these 3 quick and easy to digest sewing tips. 

• If you cant find a thread with a colour that matches your fabric exactly, go one shade darker. It will draw less attention to the fact you couldn't find the perfect colour, or for new sewers like me your hems are perfectly straight.

• For the health and longevity of your sewing machine give it a clean every 4-5 weeks. No I don't mean give the plastic or metal a wipe over. Use the brush provided with your machine to clear out any lint and fabric fibres which could of gather inside your sewing machine.

• Keep the scraps of left over fabric when cutting out your pattern to practice on. By doing this you can check you are happy with the tension, length of stick or the way a decorative stick looks before doing it with the real pattern pieces.

Update: The Course

I am now about two thirds of the way through the sewing machine section of the course and am learning so much about my machine, it's unreal!!!

What what have covered today:

• Cleaning the sewing machine.
• Sewing machine needles.
• Thread tension and feed dogs 

Tips I have picked up and wanted to share with you.

•  You want to clean machine every four to five weeks. Using a brush which should have come with the machine and some sewing machine oil. You need to clean the machine to remove lint and fabric fibers which could of gathered in the feed dogs. 

• The numbers on the needle pack when you buy them are to indicate the thickness of they can handle. For example 70 would be for thin fabric and 100 for Jean fabric. 

• To check the tension is correct in the bobbin, place the bobbin in the case and hold the thread and let it hang if the bobbin falls out or begins to wind down the tension needs to be adjusted. To do this use the screw driver which came with the machine.

The Magic Of A Bobbin

Hi everyone, Jess here. Today we are going to be talking about Bobbins.

So every machine uses bobbins however some need a bobbin case, some don't. Mine has a bobbin and bobbin case. I don't know what's better. SO leave me a comment and let me know what you prefer!

Something very important we learnt in today's lesson is that there are different types of bobbins, these are:

• Plastic Bobbins
• Fully Metal Bobbins which are used in industrial machines.
• Bobbins with holes all round the front and back circle.

Apparently it's best to not use different bobbins with your machine, so always stick to the type you originally received when you bought the machine. 

Other things we learnt:

• How to fill the bobbin. 
• How to tread the bobbins in the bobbin case. 
• How to place the bobbin into a sewing machine.