Sewing wefts?????
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Topic: Sewing wefts?????
Posted By: Gina E
Subject: Sewing wefts?????
Date Posted: October 29 2006 at 8:53pm
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Is it safe to machine sew micro wefts and handtied wefts? Any pointers you all are willing to share? TIA ------------- I've got a new puppy!!! She's a http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/GinaE52979/EvansFirstDayandRoxy06019.jpg - White Boxer |
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Posted By: TanglesRC
Date Posted: October 29 2006 at 9:20pm
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absolutley able to sew them together-
pointers? be careful u dont sew your fingers...lol
use lots of pins to hold then together. ------------- Bringing beauty, one head at a time... |
Posted By: asinnamon
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 8:23am
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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?? ------------- |
Posted By: Gina E
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 9:30am
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!!!
 O yeah, BTW I do use a zigzag ------------- I've got a new puppy!!! She's a http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/GinaE52979/EvansFirstDayandRoxy06019.jpg - White Boxer |
asinnamon wrote:Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 11:23am
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Posted By: asinnamon
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 1:05pm
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Great tip DivaV!! That would work too.
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... ------------- |
Posted By: Gina E
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 1:47pm
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That IS a grea tip Diva!
Asinnamon , I'l have to ask mom about that one  She doesn't do any quilting...usually just basic stuff.------------- I've got a new puppy!!! She's a http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/GinaE52979/EvansFirstDayandRoxy06019.jpg - White Boxer |
Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 10:34pm
 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.. ------------- Check out the 5th So Cal offline luncheon?? For more info: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com/lunch.html Links to my fav vendors & hair albums + Weave 101 information: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com |
Posted By: mokipono
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 1:04am
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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!!!! ------------- http://hawaiianhairextensions.com - http://hawaiianhairextensions.com |
Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 8:42am
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Posted By: Gina E
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 12:06pm
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? ------------- I've got a new puppy!!! She's a http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/GinaE52979/EvansFirstDayandRoxy06019.jpg - White Boxer |
Posted By: asinnamon
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 12:32pm
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Diva, what type of paper? Tissue, wax, or regular copy paper? ------------- |
Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 1:26pm
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Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 1:28pm
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