I would disengage the feed dogs on your machine. They may get caught on the hair as you move under the needle. Not all machines have adjustable feed dogs....CHeck your manual if you are unsure.
ETA: What type of stitch were you thinking of doing? If I were doing it, I would sorta offset the wefts a bit and do a zigzag stitch. I WOuld be afraid a straight stitch would slip some??
I would disengage the feed dogs on your machine. They may get caught on the hair as you move under the needle. Not all machines have adjustable feed dogs....CHeck your manual if you are unsure.
ETA: What type of stitch were you thinking of doing? If I were doing it, I would sorta offset the wefts a bit and do a zigzag stitch. I WOuld be afraid a straight stitch would slip some??
WOW!!! I have no idea what a feed dog is? I'm such an amatuer. I use my mothers machine and she has to help some of the time!!!
I would disengage the feed dogs on your machine. They may get caught on the hair as you move under the needle. Not all machines have adjustable feed dogs....CHeck your manual if you are unsure.
ETA: What type of stitch were you thinking of doing? If I were doing it, I would sorta offset the wefts a bit and do a zigzag stitch. I WOuld be afraid a straight stitch would slip some??
When I was sewing regularly, I had a trick I used to get around this.. Whenever I was sewing fine fabrics (like silks), I would place a sheet of paper underneath the fabric, and simple sew through the fabric and the paper.. The stitching through the paper will create a perforation in the paper, and you will be able to tear the paper away when you are done..
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The feed dogs are the toothy metal grabbers that come up and down in the plate under the needle. They grip the fabric and move it along as you sew. In sewing macines that can do "machine quilting" you can lower the feed dogs to prevent your fabric from being moved along. This way you can move the fabric in any direction to create patterns, etc...
The feed dogs are the toothy metal grabbers that come up and down in the plate under the needle. They grip the fabric and move it along as you sew. In sewing macines that can do "machine quilting" you can lower the feed dogs to prevent your fabric from being moved along. This way you can move the fabric in any direction to create patterns, etc...
My first sewing machine was an oldie zig-zag machine with a left center needle.. It was my mom's sewing machine, and it was 25 years old when it was given to me.. I kept that baby for 10 more years before I gave her up...
It's not one you would find today for sure.. No free arm.. You had to have SKILLZ to make sleeves!! Hell you had to have SKILLZ period to sew with this machine.. No buttonhole or interlock settings either.. Since this was a left center needle, I had to special order a Singer buttonholer attachment to make buttonholes (which for some reason I still have though this sewing machine is LONG gone), and another special attachment to do interlocking stitches.. The feed dogs on this thing WERE NOT VERY adjustable. You could lower them a little, but it would still grab and suck fine fabrics down into the bobbin compartment.. So I had to get creative! So the paper trick worked like a charm..
Edited by Divavocals - October 30 2006 at 10:42pm
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OMG Diva, I love you!! That is such an excellent idea about using paper when sewing the wefts. Sometimes my bobbin thread gets caught with hair and it will tangle together and make a big fat bump on the weft. I never thought of using paper underneath so the hairs CAN"T get caught in the bobbin. THANK YOU!!!!
OMG Diva, I love you!! That is such an excellent idea about using paper when sewing the wefts. Sometimes my bobbin thread gets caught with hair and it will tangle together and make a big fat bump on the weft. I never thought of using paper underneath so the hairs CAN"T get caught in the bobbin. THANK YOU!!!!
Glad I could help.. I need to mention that this trick ONLY WORKS with straght stitches.. Zig Zag or interlock stitches will trap the paper underneath the stitches..
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OMG Diva, I love you!! That is such an excellent idea about using paper when sewing the wefts. Sometimes my bobbin thread gets caught with hair and it will tangle together and make a big fat bump on the weft. I never thought of using paper underneath so the hairs CAN"T get caught in the bobbin. THANK YOU!!!!
Glad I could help.. I need to mention that this trick ONLY WORKS with straght stitches.. Zig Zag or interlock stitches will trap the paper underneath the stitches..
Glad you included that final detail!!! I would have had a mess of paper stuck in my mom's machine wondering "What did I do wrong?!"
So should I straight stitch the layers of micro/handtied and then go over with a zigzag for reinforcement?
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asinnamon wrote:
She doesn't do any quilting...usually just basic stuff.
