Beginner Class Documents
This picture indicates the parts of a basic sewing machine. No matter your make or model or how basic or advance your machine every machine have most of these parts just the position or style may differ. Please locate and get familiar with your machine hand wheel, take-up lever, pressure foot, bobbin winder, tension dial, spool pin, back stitch button, stitch length/width dials, bobbin case or its compartment and you’re foot. The other parts are important to the function of your machine but knowing the ones listed role can lead you to becoming a great sewer
This is a picture of how to thread your machine. Like indicated in Class don’t get hooked on the fact your machine looks different when threading it. Just remember the simple threading motion. Take your string of thread from the spools and move from right to left, go down, around, back up, and down then into the needle. Each step will have a thread guide or slit that indicate where the thread must be fed through for each step.’
This is a picture of how to thread a bobbin. Take you thread from the spool of thread moving from right to left go in a half of a figure 8 motion around the bobbin tension to the bobbin. Each bobbin has a whole on top take your thread through the middle of the bobbin and through the whole on top.
This Diagram is the perfect picture of our best friend .......Tension!!!
In this picture it appears that the spool(top) of thread and the bobbin threads are playing a game of tug-a-war. Tug-a-war symbolizes the tension of the machine. Ideally when sewing you want it to be where no side is winning there even in the middle. If you can see the bobbin thread at the top of your fabric then you must lower your number to loosen the tension because its to tight. If your top thread is showing at the bottom then you have to increase you number because it is to loose which means it needs to be tighten. If you can't see the thread but you know your tension is off rub the fabric on both sides and whatever side is bumpy then that would indicate whether it was to tight(bumpy on top) or too loose (bumpy on bottom) Remember tension varies from fabric to fabric |
This is a perfect picture of some of the basic supplies you need for sewing. Other basic tools iron, iron cloth, seam gauge, rotary cutters, Tweezer, Ruler, Dressform, cutting mat, Pinking Shears, Bent-handle Shears, Snips, Transparent rulers, T-Shape Ruler, Pattern Making Paper/ Transfer paper, and its much more not listed. You can find any of these items at you local craft stores.
These is a photo of some of the most important symbols you will find on the pattern. These symbols help you know/understand how to lay out you pattern pieces on you fabric
Intermediate Class Documents
Will be uploaded during sewing session August 25th- September 22........