Ok, let's be honest
#131
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Apex, NC
Posts: 1
I almost never sew over pins. That can mess up your machine as well as break needles. I had to have my machine adjusted before because the needle would not center right. Finding a mark on my machine about 2 inches in front of the needle helps me keep things straighter and just practice, practice, practice. Hope that helps.
#132
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 5,397
we all have our issues if truth be told...on little trick...if you put your pins in at an angle then you won't bend/break your needle...my teacher taught me this one..I try to take the pins out but do this just in case as a back up
#133
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: League City, Texas
Posts: 504
My problem is that I pin very carefully and still one of the fabrics slips and isn't caught good in the seam making it pucker and not lay flat. Of course I don't notice it until way later. Now I am checking a block I just finished and found 3 places like that. Any suggestions to help this problem?
#134
My problem is that I pin very carefully and still one of the fabrics slips and isn't caught good in the seam making it pucker and not lay flat. Of course I don't notice it until way later. Now I am checking a block I just finished and found 3 places like that. Any suggestions to help this problem?
#136
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Saratoga, Arkansas
Posts: 1,909
I always sew straight. I find it easy for some reason. Never needed to use the seam ripper so I threw it away a few years back. ...hang on, Elvis and Johnny Cash are knocking on the door again. Maybe they can help me get rid of the aliens who crash landed in my garden, they're eating me out of house and home!
#137
Jan in Va - I use five sticky note sheets cut 1/2" wide held down with Magic Mending tape, too. Starting on a thread saver and sewing off onto a thread saver will keep from having seam size vary at the beginning and end of seams.
#139
Nope, I sure don't sew straight either. I have been sewing for a long long time and the older I get, the worse it is. I used to sew really straight lines when I made dresses etc, but for quilting, I am pitiful. Absolutely pitiful !! (Please don't tell the Quilt Police).
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