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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by SewRuthieSews on Yesterday at 23:23:31 »
I coverhem my sleeves flat, then insert the sleeve, then sew up the sleeve seam and overlock it. I then thread the ends back into the seam with a large hand sewing needle. If you like you can machine tack the seam down (as per RTW tees).
This changes the construction order but is much easier than fiddling inside the sleeve :-)
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by Ouryve on Yesterday at 21:11:39 »
My sleeves don't fit on the free arm on any of my machines (even Becky). When things do fit round it, they inevitably emerge wonky with pins missing. I've given up using them.


@Elnnina I wonder if a water erasable marker would help you keep your hem stitches where you want them, regardless of how distorted they are by stretching. The blue ones that you can get usually wash away completely, so long as you don't iron them.


Not having a coverstitch I would use a triple zigzag stitch for long sleeved vests. Possibly something to consider then try an easier stretch fabric for getting the hang of your coverstitch. Cotton jersey and interlock tend to be much better behaved.
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: The Official Scrap Quilt Sewalong 2024
« Last post by Ellabella on Yesterday at 19:51:33 »
Very cheerful.
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by Ellabella on Yesterday at 19:48:28 »
@Elnnina I do what Helen M does when faced with narrow sleeves etc. Turn the garment inside out and then stitch from inside of the sleeve. Much easier than trying to use a free arm on a narrow opening.
I’ve heard it called sewing on the inside of the teacup.
Sounds weird but once you’ve done it it’s so much easier.
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by Helen M on Yesterday at 19:35:38 »
@Elnnina Even with a free arm on my coverstitch machine I find it easier to turn the sleeve inside out and somehow get the foot to sit on top of the right side without stretching the sleeve too much. Usually the sleeve opening is too small for the free arm!

Hope that makes sense!
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: The Official Scrap Quilt Sewalong 2024
« Last post by BrendaP on Yesterday at 18:35:21 »
That looks good. :loveit:  I do like striped bindings.
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by SewRuthieSews on Yesterday at 18:09:01 »
Wow @Stitches that's a wonderful machine!

I've not been sewing but am matching old magazine sewing patterns (me, Essentials, Prima) back with the sheet with the picture, and planning to donate most of them.
(I had the page with the picture in a plastic sleeve in a folder and the pattern and instructions in a large brown envelope labelled with the number/month or whatever. This was how I stored my pattern in the late 1990s onwards. About 10 years ago I took a lot of the big 4 patterns out of the system, but never quite got around to the folders of magazine patterns!)

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by Elnnina on Yesterday at 17:37:18 »
I have been here too, still messing about with the coverstitching on my vest sleeves, what a fiddly job it has turned out to be and I haven't finished them yet!!.  I do have a free arm on this machine, and I have also reduced the pressure on the foot, and I am still undecided whether I like this or not - still they are only long sleeved winter vests so nobody is going to see them.

I just want to get these finished and out of the way so I can get on with something else, and this is taking far too long - perhaps what I deemed to be an easy job on these sleeves was wrong as it is quite stretchy and so difficult to keep lined up with a strip marker on the needle plate.
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by Stitches on Yesterday at 17:24:37 »
Got my quilt on the longarm started it a log cabin star measures 80 by 80
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by Silver Rose on Yesterday at 16:32:55 »
I was quizzing this afternoon so I did an hour or so this morning on my dressing gown and fixed my mannequin Mimi back to the correct height, she has slipped down a few inches whilst wearing my heavy cape, now wearing the part finished dressing gown.
Dressing gown is ready for the side seams to be sewn and then the front band and hem to be sorted out.
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