When you apply clear elastic or elastic to a fabric and it jams underneath, the stitch becomes irregular, or it bunches up, the cause is almost always the same: a tension problem with the upper thread, triggered during threading. Even if you have threaded your machine 1,000 times, it only takes one wrong pass to […]
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If you want to sew comfortable clothes that let you breathe after a restaurant meal and don’t hang like a sack, you’ll need to make peace with one word: stretch. People talk about it a lot, often incorrectly. “This fabric is stretchy” doesn’t mean much on its own. You need to understand how, how much,
Embracing knits: a guide for those tired of stiff fabrics Ah, knits! The mere mention of the word is enough to scare off some sewists. “It slips, it stretches, it loses its shape…” We hear all sorts of conflicting things. Yet, knit fabric is a powerful ally for anyone wanting to sew comfortable, modern, and
