Marking a FW
#1
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Noblesville, IN
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I find it hard to stay on track with my seams without having some sort of marking to follow on my FW. I have seen people mentioning to use painter's tape, but is it a good with an antique machine? If it is a bad idea, what should I mark it with?
#5
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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I use a product called mole skin. You'll find it at any drug store even walmart has it .It's in the pharmacy section aroung shoe inserts. Works great for me , I have it on all my machines but I also use a 1/4 foot ln my machines.
#6
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Tippy-top of a ridge in WV
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Just don't use regular old masking tape. The first FW that I got was a real mess and I managed to get her cleaned up pretty well except for a piece of masking tape that had either baked in an attic or deteriorated somehow and welded to the machine and no amount of work got it off, there is still a faint image of it there. That's all right, she purrs along and doesn't even know she has acne.
#9
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Northern CA
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I measure 1/4" from the needle & place a refrigerator magnet with the straight edge toward the needle. If you need to, you can always reposition it but I've only had to do that when I wanted a different seam width.
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