Used Sewing Machine: What to Check Before Buying
A used machine is the best value in sewing and the easiest way to waste a Saturday. The good ones …
Beginners
Your first sewing machine, picked on the features a beginner actually uses. Threading, bobbins, stitches and what to buy alongside it.
Sewing Machine for Small Spaces and Apartments
In an apartment, the machine is rarely the problem. The problem is that the machine has to share a table …
Portable Sewing Machine: What Portable Really Means
Portable is one of the least useful words in sewing machine marketing, because it gets applied to three completely different …
Beginner Sewing Projects That Teach the Machine
A new sewing machine usually arrives with a burst of enthusiasm and then sits under its cover for a month, …
What to Buy With Your First Sewing Machine
The machine arrives with a small box of accessories: a few bobbins, a pack of needles, a seam ripper, a …
Sewing Machine Stitches Explained: Which You Use
Machines get sold on stitch counts. Six, twenty seven, seventy, six hundred. The number is printed larger than anything else …
Sewing Machine Parts Explained in Plain Language
Sewing advice assumes vocabulary. Drop the feed dogs, check the take up lever, is it a low shank, did you …
Sewing Machine for Kids: Speed Limits and Safety
A child who wants to sew usually wants to make one specific thing: a bag for a doll, a pillow …
Sewing Machine for Beginners: What Actually Matters
Almost nobody buys a first sewing machine because they want a sewing machine. They buy one because a pair of …
Giving a Sewing Machine: What to Check First
A sewing machine is one of the better gifts you can give and one of the easier ones to get …
Winding a Bobbin: The Step Beginners Get Wrong
Winding a bobbin looks like the easiest thing a sewing machine does. Put thread on the spool pin, push the …
How to Use a Sewing Machine: First Seam Today
A new sewing machine comes with a manual that explains ninety functions in the order the engineers thought of them, …