Today we’ll talk about how to get your hand and achieve excellence, if you have only recently begun to comprehend sewing art.
Janome Modern sewing machines perform many types of stitches and operations, but the machine is just a tool, and everything that it can offer should be guided by your confident hand. That is why even before you delve into the wisdom of complex sewing operations, it is worthwhile to devote time to working out the impeccable automatism of the movements of your hands. Do not hesitate, every minute spent on training will certainly pay off!
1. Straight line
makeit-loveit About how to learn to scribble in a straight line (and at the same time really straightforward), we already spoke in detail in a separate master class:
How to learn to sew a straight line
Be sure to check out these tips, but the most popular of them is not too lazy to repeat! Take a striped or checkered fabric and scribble stubbornly over and over until you feel confident in your hands.
makeit-loveit 2. Binding
The most popular way to fasten a thread at the beginning and end of a stitch is to fasten it with a button or a lever called reverse. From a technical point of view, the stitching is very simple: start a straight stitch and lay 1.5 cm from the cut, then go back using the “reverse”, and then continue the stitch further, as usual. All stitches must be stacked one on top of the other to secure the threads.
French Basting, or What are Brides
The fastening also requires a certain accuracy and accuracy, so combine the two exercises - on your training striped fabric, lay straight lines, making such fastenings at the beginning and at the end of each line.
makeit-loveit After practicing with a stitch and a straight stitch, take two pieces of fabric (not striped, without guide lines) and practice stitching them.
makeit-loveit 3. Turns
Once with a straight line you will be on “you”, proceed to the training of turns. You can start with the exercise, which many did at school at labor lessons - a line on paper. Here are a few training sheets that you can print at home on a printer:
Without threads and fabric, scribble strictly along the lines, reaching the corner, leave the needle in the paper, raise the foot, unfold the sheet, lower the foot and continue stitching.
4. Curved lines
Having dealt with straight lines, move on to more complex forms. Sewing along curved lines requires more focus and extra precautions. Even if you are scribbling along our training sheet, do not rush, turn the paper in time so that the stitch is flat and does not deviate from the course.
To complicate the exercise, draw a variety of rounded shapes on the fabric and sew them using threads. The main problem in working with such lines is the fabric itself, it needs to be carefully rotated and straightened. At first you will have to do this literally every few stitches.With experience, you will learn to do this automatically at a higher speed.
makeit-loveit 5. Zigzag
One of those lines that you will use often enough, so it will not be superfluous to train her. Simple straight lines are drawn on the training sheet below - lay a zigzag so that the line runs exactly in the center of the line, and the vertices are placed neatly on both sides of it.
Sewing school: zigzag stitch
Change the settings of your zigzag and see how it will look different on the fabric and how much the result depends on the stitch length and thread tension.
makeit-loveit 6. Other lines
makeit-loveit Many modern machines offer a host of decorative stitches (many of which may never even be useful to you), but nonetheless study them. Just try all the stitches on a separate piece of fabric and save it as a sample.
How to sew a decorative stitch
