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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Tuesdays 2-4pm
« on: March 05, 2024, 16:20:44 PM »
I had to go out to a podiatry appointment this afternoon , so whilst out in the village popped into our lovely charity shop and came away with some freebees of knit fabric purely for me to practise sewing this type of fabric on the overlocker and then playing with the other overlocker/coverstitcher - thought it best to have some practice first rather than waste good decent fabric, so that will be a job for tomorrow afternoon. One of the ladies asked what coverstitching was, so I grabbed a knitted garment and showed her what it looked like, then another lady came up and mentioned that she had a Bernina as well - wasn't expecting that as I really do not know of anyone in my village who sews.
I have spent a couple of days fiddling around enlarging a pattern so I am ready to start my new venture into today's modern knit fabrics - all my previous sewing on knits was way back in the 1960's early 1970's and back then all I had was a straight stitch machine no ball pointed needle and I just used my ordinary dress patterns for wovens and it worked, but now of course there is a lot of options with the use of the overlockers/coverstitchers, the types of needles even ball pointed pins and hand sewing needles. Interestingly I have some knit fabric that has no stretch in it at all, so will probably have to result in putting a zip in these fabrics which of course I do not have!!
Hopefully I will be at sewing club tomorrow afternoon.
I have spent a couple of days fiddling around enlarging a pattern so I am ready to start my new venture into today's modern knit fabrics - all my previous sewing on knits was way back in the 1960's early 1970's and back then all I had was a straight stitch machine no ball pointed needle and I just used my ordinary dress patterns for wovens and it worked, but now of course there is a lot of options with the use of the overlockers/coverstitchers, the types of needles even ball pointed pins and hand sewing needles. Interestingly I have some knit fabric that has no stretch in it at all, so will probably have to result in putting a zip in these fabrics which of course I do not have!!
Hopefully I will be at sewing club tomorrow afternoon.