Tips for Beginner Sewers

Here are a few basic but helpful sewing tips for beginner sewers:

• Pressing each freshly sewn seam as you are sewing your project truly does make a difference in the finished piece.
• Iron out all the wrinkles of the pattern pieces before pinning to fabric. This makes the cutting job more accurate as well as much easier to fold and store in the pattern envelope.
• Regularly oil your sewing machine (check the instruction manual) and keep the machine dust and lint free (a can of compressed air is nice to have on hand as well as a small brush).
• Buy the best pair of sewing scissors that you can afford, use them only for cutting fabric. Super Tip: hide them so that no one will use them for cutting pipecleaners and other nefarious objects .
• Cut fabric right sides together so that any markings you need to do will be on the wrong side.
• Clip the threads properly before moving onto the next seam, no more hunting for long threads on a ‘finished’ piece.

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