Choosing the wrong type of fabric for the garment.Avoid stretchy materials for your first few projects. ✦ Using blunt needles.You need a sharp needle to sew more easily. ✦ Using blunt fabric scissors.This will make it difficult to cut your fabric cleanly. ...
This being said, zippers tend to be wavier when sewing with stretchy fabric, less when sewing with quilting cotton, and pretty rare when sewing with vinyl, faux leather, suede and other non-stretchy fabric. Meaning that usinginterfacing for sewing bagsand pouches will almost always prevent uneven...
I like to sew knits with my walking foot, especially if they are very stretchy. A walking foot moves both the top and bottom layers of fabric at the same time. This makes it a lot easier to avoid stretching the fabric out too much. They run $15-20 and you’ll use it a lot once...
I like to sew knits with my walking foot, especially if they are very stretchy. A walking foot moves both the top and bottom layers of fabric at the same time. This makes it a lot easier to avoid stretching the fabric out too much. They run $15-20 and you’ll use it a lot once...
This zigzag stitch, which is a good choice for stretchy material, is fairly simple to achieve. All you have to do is move the needle assembly from side to side at the same time that it is moving up and down. Conventional Electric Sewing Machine In a conventional electric machine, the nee...
During the development process, scientists at DuPont referred to this fabric as "spandex;" once this fabric was completed, it was sold under the brand name Lycra, but consumers seemed to prefer to call this material spandex, and it was this term that entered the public lexicon to refer to ...
but as the fabric stretches and moves, it’s possible that the threads you sow will break. So, if you’re using t-shirt material, consider using a stretchy thread. The exception is if you have a T-shirt made out of stretch material. That might be a little harder to come by, but ...
This zigzag stitch, which is a good choice for stretchy material, is fairly simple to achieve. All you have to do is move the needle assembly from side to side at the same time that it is moving up and down. Conventional Electric Sewing Machine In a conventional electric machine, the nee...
Next, sew together the long sides creating a point. Now this is where I thought it might be a pain but wasn’t. You turn it inside out. I thought it might be a little difficult because it is such a small point, but I guess beacause of the stretchy material it turned quite easily....
In less then 10 minutes, I had a newborn-size beanie, made from soft, stretchy tshirt material. In short, the instructions go like this: cut a front and back of a hat from the bottom portion of a t-shirt and sew them together. For those who need more details than that, here’s...