Thread up

Are you struggling to thread up your thread for sewing or hand embroidery. In this tutorial I'll show some quick tips and techniques that make threading up your needle and finishing your thread much easier.

You sit down at your sewing machine and start sewing. Hmm, something doesn't sound quite right. You flip your fabric over and find this: A big mess under your fabric and your sewing machine bottom thread bunching. Aaaagh! So what do you do? There's a few things that can cause the bobbin thread to create a

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Did you know you can completely change the look and the function of an embroidery stitch by either lacing it or whipping around it with another thread? Well, you can! There are all kinds of embroidery stitches that can either laced or whipped, and the effects you can achieve with the stitches vary, depending on ...

Threading a needle just became so, so much less annoying.

This is my new hand stitching companion...literally a THREAD CATCHER. When I am hand stitching, there are little tails of silk thread and snippets of quilting cotton EVERYWHERE...I know things are out of hand when Weasley the cat saunters by with thread and fabric snippets are stuck to his fur coat! And now, a view of the underside...(this is my favorite Kaffe Fassett fabric in my stash)... Do you want to learn to make one? Let me demonstrate the magic...first, I push DOWN with my thumbs on…

Annie Stafford - Learn to sew on Instagram: "❗️This is my most requested sewing hack ❗️ By pinching the top thread as you sew, this causes the fabric to gather up behind the sewing machine foot to make for perfect gatehring everytime. 🦋 Thread up you machine as normal Pull both top thread and bobbin thread to the back, make sure to leave a long tail. This will come in handy latter when you are attaching the gathering to your sewing project and you want to increase or decrease the…

Annie Stafford - Learn to sew on Instagram: "Do as I say, not as I do 😫 I use to always cut off these thread tails, because what other option did I have? 💁🏼‍♀️ It wasn’t untill I came across this sewing hack that involves threading the tail back up your overlocking stitch to secure it, that I knew I had a new sewing hack to tuck up my sleeve. By threading the tail back up the overlocking chain, it secures it, similar to a backstitch on a sewing machine. Have you triced this sewing…

Take your sewing projects to the next level using these sewing tips and tricks.

I'll show you how to make an easy thread catcher to hold all of your thread tails. This post contains a free pattern and tutorial for a thread catcher.