Originally Posted by
RAChhap
If you can measure carefully, you can use double sided scotch tape and tape a stick of gum down on your machine at whatever seam allowance you want. This is how I taught my 4H girls to sew a straight seam.
I just measure and use painter's tape. Easy to put on, easy to take off, not expensive, keep it in my sewing drawer, it is right there when I need it and it is big enough to grab it without looking!!!!! More people think of more things to buy and use, when, with a little bit of female ingenuity and brains that the Good Lord gave us, we can do anything for practically nothing!!!!!! Besides, I think it is a lot more fun to figure this stuff out for myself. Holy cats, painter's tape, orange stick, tweezers - I haven't paid anything for any of that stuff (well, we had the painter's tape from before - now that we are done painting, it's mine!!!!!!) Edie