When you live in a luxury apartment you often don't want a sewing machine if you'd rather own luxury, you can't just own space, and even with the search for life elsewhere, you'd rather have your own world! A sewing machine costs a lot, takes up room and takes a lot of labor to operate. Those cheap handheld sewing machines often don't work, like cloth glue they won't sew many types of cloth and are of no use for buttons. Good old hand sewing can also be used to augument or completely out wangle a sewing machine and is lightweight and low cost. And it turns out it's not a labor once you know how. Here are ten tips and tricks to fast and easy hand sewing;
To thread the needle by hand you can use the small wire threaders in some sewing boxes, often these aren't around and you often have to buy the whole kit of worthless thread with it. It's a chore just to find the needle and thread and cut it so simple methods are of real worth in the sewology realm. To thread the needle
1. Make sure you use a needle that has a wide enough eye to thread it, and no wider to not lose traction on your sewn loops of thread unless you have other use in mind.
2. Cut your thread at about 45 degress with a clean cut if possible
3 Find a black or other background you can see the eye of the needle to thread it.
4.Wet the thread with a bit of spittle and twirl it tight with the tips of your fingers to sharpen the thread more.
5.Move your hand close to the end of the thread say, an inch or less. This makes it so it's much easier to thread since it's not jostling around while you thread the loop.
6.Learn by a reflex arc of a bit of trial and error guided by your vision sense of where the loop and thread are, improving with perhaps a few go rounds, soon you'll have it threaded, if you miss it to the right, go left, and sew on!
Once you learn how to thread a needle by this method it's yours for life and you can use it just as easily as the threaders but at no cost. They have patents on elaborate threaders but they cost about 15 each and are a dud. Looking around for a threader is often a web search, with this you're in zoom mode up the zip road of life!
Instead of a thimble, consider a heavy leather glove, it has a lot more coverage.
LOOPING TRICKS
7. Tie the thread in knots, snip off the extra thread, except about two inches beyond the knot (needle, thread, knot, two inches of thread). The two inches is to tie knots. And it's of worth if you run out of thread because you can tie the thread past the knot to the end of other thread so it's a good connection. Add candle wax or even olive oil (though oily) if in a pinch to the thread so it won't catch as you sew.
8. Start at the start after you fasten the cloth to be sewn just where you like it. To reduce wear and beautify, you may want to fold in the outside edges in and then stabilize via pins if sewing a patch.
9. If possible make the first sew between the two layers of cloth to be bound, the knot is out of sight and this reduces wear and boosts beauty.
10. Pull the thread all the way through, do this several times, overlooping to tighten the thread then tie the thread securely with the thread of the knot.
11.To sew on the outside, to beautify use a small loop on the outside and a larger loop in the inside, the larger loop makes it faster. Faster yet if your'e sewing inside like a coat and beauty is no concern or if you just are fast, loop above and below in a zig zag with just the needle, say 4x and you pull it through. If you're short of pins you can recycle by sewing then use them over and over while you pin, sew, and pin and sew, repeat. It's often good to see how you wear the hat shirt coat or other outfit to be sewn held in place with "real simulation!" before you sew with the pins.
12. For a slower, more utilitarian sew, sew on the same side of the folded cloth. Pull the needle partway through, then loop the thread over the needle from the other end of the needle one or more times, pull. Slower than the in and out loop (11.) this makes all your sewing of this type more bound such as to sew a loose edge. To make it more well sewn with almost no more thread used, spin the thread two, three or even more loops around the needle with each stitch.
Poly or nylon thread is not recommended, it's stronger but doesn't tie or have much traction so it won't stay sewn.
With these motifs you'll have the last laugh in fitness and heart science, the nurse won't leave you in stitches!
SEW A BUTTON OLAH! YOU'RE A PHD IN ROCKET SCIENCE WITHOUT THE BUTTONNEER!
Repeat steps 1-6 above with the button.
1. Put a safety pin between the button and the shirt for a spacer, BLAST ON!
2. Pull the loop through say 5 or 10 times. Tighten with each loop.
3. Loop the thread around the thread loops between the button and fabric 6 times to make the thread of worth.
4. Tie the thread to finish more than once or twice if you like.
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You may want to consider renting out your sewing machine for income, others may want to use it, if your remote control has lock stitch!
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