Sewing can be a fun and fulfilling hobby, allowing someone to fashion beautiful clothes, pillows, and repair clothes so they last. While fun, sewing can get rather involved, with all the supplies and delicate work involved.
Learning These Tips Can Make Sewing Faster and Easier
Fortunately, there are easy ways out there to simplify some of the trickier aspects of the hobby. With a few simple tricks, a sewer can not only up their sewing game, they can create more intricate works easier and faster.
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Easy Pleating With a Fork
Pleating is a good way to reinforce an area while also making it look nice. Then again, working with twice as much fabric can require a bit of elbow grease, which can be dangerous when working with pointy objects.
Pleating guides exist, but why use one of them when you can just use a fork? That’s right, a fork. Simply use the fork and roll the fabric with one tine exposed like you were eating pasta, and keep on sewing. You might have to do the first pleat by hand, but with a little help from a common kitchen utensil, your pleats will be durable and even.
Threading the Needle Using Hairspray
Getting the sewing thread into the needle eye is an important step in sewing, and it can also be the most difficult. If you’re like me and tend to use larger needles just for the big eye, your sewing options tend to be limited. Licking the tip of the thread is a common trick, but sometimes the thread is just too frayed to hold together or the eye too small. When you need a bit of stiffness, give the thread a quick spurt of hairspray. The extra stiffness will make threading the needle a piece of cake. Well, as long as you can see straight.
Thread Organization Using Golf Tees
Apparently just keeping your spools and bits of thread in a barely controlled pile at the bottom of your sewing kit is not proper organization. Once the bobbins get tossed in, your sewing kit might look less like a bunch of thread and more like abstract art. With a few golf tees, you can keep the bottom of your kit color coordinated for easy color spotting. Also handy for quick games of mini-golf.
Use Toe Separators for Bobbin Control
With the used bobbins under control, you might be concerned with the unused ones settled at the bottom of your kit. A toe separator is an easy way to keep them secured and easy to grab when needed.
Controlling Seam Length With Rubber Bands
Once you’ve gotten into the groove while sewing, maintaining consistent seam length is a common concern. Depending on your sewing machine, using different colored rubber bands as guides can make for easy indicators to keep your seems consistent, and your sewing on the move.
Sewing is fun but involved, much like any hobby or household task. With a few easy tricks, sewing can be made easier and better organized.
With a few household items and a quick check of your junk drawer, any sewer can better organize their supplies, maintain consistent quality of their work, and keep on sewing.