trouble with piecing/keeping end of seam straight
#22
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Vancouver, WA
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I use a "Purple Thang" which has an angled, slightly flattened tip and has an eye for threading on a "ribbon"* to be worn around your neck to be handy. (*I suggest using narrow elastic so it doesn't drop through a mesh tabletop you've leaned over, causing pain and embarrassment when it catches as you stand up without noticing. Ask me how I know.) The Purple Thang is a great, inexpensive little sewing tool, available on Amazon and many sewing/quilting sites.
#24
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Keller, TX
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Do you have a plastic support table fitted around your machine base? If you don't then your guiding hand and gravity is the problem....I took a serger class one time from the Serger Guru from Babylock. She said, serged threads going off the fabric was the person pulling at the end of the piece going through the machine, usually the left hand. We all tried it on our machines, she was right! Keep your fabric in position to the last stitch, don't get in a hurry to get it through the needle.
When I got home, I noticed I was pulling my fabric to the left on my sewing machine as well...It is not your machine.
When I got home, I noticed I was pulling my fabric to the left on my sewing machine as well...It is not your machine.
#26
two things, do u have a 1/4th foot on your machine? And when pinning i always start in the middle and then work out, and then work in, i go back and forths to make sure i have it equal. sometimes it just takes practice, u will get there
#29
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lumby, British Columbia
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Two things off the top of my head would be to use a sharp pointed something to guide the seam thru to the end. The other would be to use a small piece of scrap to sew onto at the end of the seam, also at the beginning of the seam. These little scraps are called leaders and enders.
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