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When serging I use a plastic bag from the grocery store slip the handles under the front feet of your serger when it is full you can check to see if anything has fallen into the bag before tying the handles together have saved myself from loosing many small gadgets.
From Bonnie:
I have wooden blocks under the legs of the table I use to cut out patterns on. This raises the table to a good height and saves may a back ache.
From Sharon:
My daughter made her first quilt at the age of nine with very little help from me. She wanted to do it HERSELF!!!! I worried about her running her fingers through the needle, solution was to contact the Blind Assoc. in my area and bought a needle guard that the blind use for sewing. It was impossible for her to get her fingers under it and it swung up out of the way when i used the machine . Happy teaching and togetherness
From Grammy:
If you have a bad stich on top ,your problem is the bobbin thread . if the stich is bad on the bottom it is your top thread. this might help some who are just starting to run into problems.
From FireFly:
I use a pipe cleaner to clean my sewing machine. The fine chenille attracts those very small fibres and are flexible enough to get around those small parts.
From Cindy:
A repairman once told me if you have difficulty adjusting your serger tension, try gently sliding a credit card through the tension disks. Despite our efforts to be tidy, dust and dirt can collect between the disks. A credit card will usually do the trick and not damage. It's worked many times for me:)
From Cindy:
Place the brim of a baseball cap under your serger and sweep thread tails into the 'bowl' of the hat.
From Cindy:
Save an empty dishwashing liquid squeeze bottle. Use puffs of air to gently clean threads and debris out of the way as you sew.
From SewMommy:
*When stitching, do not push or pull the fabric. This will cause the needle to break under the stress. You only need to guide the fabric in front of the presser foot while stitching. Let the machine's feed dog's do the work.
From Cheryl:
*Attended a seminar for one of the machine companies to get this idea...it works well....Use a "Thread Pallette" on top of your embroidery machine for the first four thread color changes and then just keep substituting your colors as you use them. This works very well. Along the same lines; you might want to mark the first place where you put your first spool with fingernail polish, so you have a reference point.
From SewMommy:
*Clean your sewing machine after each sewing project. Be sure to clean out the bobbin box and lift the throat plate to clean under the feed dogs as well. You can use a small brush to do this and it will surprise you how much lint and dust can be in there.
From SewMommy:
*Get to know your sewing machine! Take an hour or two and thoroughly study your sewing machine manual. You may find that your machine does a lot more than you realized!
From Barb:
*If you have a serger with differential feed, set the feed part to the first notch toward gather when you are serging knits. The fabric won't be stretched out of shape like it normally is when sewn or serged.
From SewMommy:
*Always make sure you are using the correct sewing machine needle sized for the fabric you are sewing. It can make all the difference in the world.
From SewMommy:
*Did you know that you should lubricate your sewing machine after every 8 (eight) hours of sewing? That will keep your sewing machine running in tip top shape for longer!
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