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 …
Beginners
Your first sewing machine, picked on the features a beginner actually uses. Threading, bobbins, stitches and what to buy alongside it.
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, …
How to Thread a Sewing Machine Without Guesswork
The first evening with a new machine almost always ends the same way. The threading diagram is printed on the …
First Sewing Machine: Three Features That Decide It
Standing in front of a wall of first sewing machines, or scrolling a page of them, the comparison collapses quickly. …
Computerized or Mechanical: Which First Machine
Ask this question in any sewing group and you get two confident answers. One says mechanical machines last forever and …
Budget Sewing Machines: What You Give Up
There is a version of the cheap sewing machine story that is entirely true and rarely told: a basic mechanical …