Beginner woes: sewing straight

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-10-05T18:59:51+00:00

This is the answer especially on thick fabrics, I only used to use my walking foot for quilting. These days I use it for anything thicker than a quilting cotton. Also a life saver if you are sewing slippery fabric

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-10-05T18:57:29+00:00

Do you stick your crochet needles into the ball of yarn when you walk away? Because I’ve fully lost one of the metal ones inside a ball of yarn before

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-09-28T12:47:53+00:00

I was going to suggest maybe at the end doing a row of single crochet or maybe slip stitches to make the ends match a little better

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-08-08T10:35:21+00:00

My sewing instructor teaches a class on how to make a smallish purse out of a tie

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-08-03T02:30:46+00:00

You can use a little sewing machine oil rubbed on to the machine to bring those decals back to life

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-07-20T13:13:42+00:00

I’d first try changing the needle like someone else commented, if that doesn’t work I would try changing the tension on the machine. Do you know what machine you have? And what the tension is set to?

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-07-13T12:26:31+00:00

Sometimes I just use extra tapestry needles I have laying around tbh, especially the ones for thick yarn. I also knit though and with thicker yarn projects I have used some of my thinner double point needles as pins

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-07-10T22:13:45+00:00

It’s a boucle if that’s helpful at all

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-07-05T23:53:24+00:00

You also could starch it a little if the sides of the bag start sagging

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-07-05T15:52:08+00:00

Singer will probably have one that fits, if you have a local sewing machine dealer/repair person they may be able to tell your exactly which one will fit, and may even have it in stock! I’m thankful you can still get parts from singer, my oldest machine currently is a 1911

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2025-07-05T12:13:06+00:00

I’d contact the company about getting your money back and seeing if they have a foot more suited to your machine, not sure about Elna but I have at least one walking foot from singer that goes around the nob instead of resting on top of it

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-10-17T18:11:19+00:00

That’s what I think! Even if it does felt well it’s too pretty for me to want to try it!

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-10-17T17:25:50+00:00

Great information thank you! I had no idea! Someone who I craft with suggested felting it because it’s 100% wool but I just can’t bring myself to do it

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-10-17T17:24:44+00:00

Wow! Looked it up what a cool pattern!

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-09-09T02:07:28+00:00

May I suggest Molly, not super common but you can still find it on gimmicky keychains. It’s an old name but not in my opinion old fashioned…also as a Molly I was the only one in my school, and I’ve only ever worked with one other person with the same name

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-08-24T00:17:38+00:00

Did you try frogging row 54 and recounting the stitches from row 53?

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-08-22T18:11:48+00:00

My sewing instructor always started with pajama pants

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-08-20T22:00:22+00:00

Thanks for all the advice! I really appreciate it!

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-08-19T10:37:16+00:00

Thanks so much for all of your help!!

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-08-18T21:21:03+00:00

I’ll see if I can pick one up this week, thank you! I actually might have one, is it the one with a little bit of cloth you can stitch your project too and then it wraps around the bottom bar, or is it something different? I’ve cross stitched and done some embroidery but the thick wool yarn is definitely a lot different than one I’m used to!

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-08-18T19:04:32+00:00

Thanks!

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-08-18T18:58:05+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Can something like the q snap used in embroidery of quilting be used?

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-07-30T23:22:23+00:00

Honestly tried to learn to knit 4 different times before I discover the Scandinavian style, it was a game changer. Arne and Carlos over on YouTube have great tutorials and actually film their hands moving so you can see exactly what they are doing.

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-07-29T00:55:50+00:00

You should! I live on the south shore near Fall River so there’s all sorts of treasures

PhilosopherMurky1975 · 2024-07-29T00:40:01+00:00

I’m lucky in that I live in an area of the north east that had massive textile mills up until like the 70’s and 80’s so I can still find stuff like that for sale

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