Friday, 14 October 2011

How To Sew - The First Step Is Basic Skills


There are three stages of learning to sew. They are: 1) learn the basics, 2) the ability to build and repair clothing, and 3) sewing fun and profit. When you reach the third stage, you can enjoy sewing and find that even when you're not a professional seamstress, are competent to achieve the objectives of the sewing most of you are looking for.

Furthermore, learning the basics of sewing skills is not rocket science, but it takes time and patience. Many people have the goal of learning how to sew sewing machine and I have to start over. You too can learn to sew with a sewing machine and fix as many others have before you.

What are the basic skills needed for sewing on the sewing machine?

  1. Learn to thread a sewing machine.
  2. Learn how to run the point at the beginning and end of sewing.
  3. Learn to sew a straight line.

Do not underestimate this step. We begin to learn these basic skills.





Learn to thread your machine:

Read the manual for your sewing machine. This may seem dry and boring, but you will save much time and frustration if you read what people who made ​​his team will advise you to do.
Everything else is really a commentary on these basic skills. If instructions are not clear, go online and view photos and videos to help you follow the instructions.
The practice of liquidating its coil. Anyway good to have a pair of coils of all injuries and ready to go.
Threading the bobbin practice once your machine is threaded. Once again, there are pictures and videos on the Internet to help you understand the owner's manual.

Learn-to-back fashion:

Read the manual for your sewing machine. With little doubt, have to find the back button on your machine.





If you work with a very old machine that only goes forward, will have to forget about a reverse button and just turn your fabric.
The practice of sewing a few stitches and then reverse and move forward. This habit will secure seams for years.

Learn to sew in a straight line:

Use the full width of the lines on her sewing machine to sew or draw one with a ruler and a pencil.
Well, you can use the same piece of tissue replacement and again for this exercise.
Yes, with these three basic skills, you are ready to move to the next level of learning to sew on a sewing machine, garment construction and repairs. Remember that any curve can be divided into straight lines very, very small. In other words, you are still sewing in a straight line to learn to feel comfortable with it.

That's it.





When you are satisfied with these three skills, you're ready for the next stage of learning to sew, clothing and building repairs. Practice threading your machine until you can do it for a few seconds. And the zig-zag, you ask? Are you still sewing in a straight line, and then be transferred to the needle or fabric. What about the gathering and binding, stitching and stay? They are all to sew in a straight line.

Ok, go and practice until you are satisfied with the instructions. Then the next stage of learning to sew.


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