Sewing machines can do many types of sewing. Some of them are practical, like stitches for attaching fabrics together. Others are decorative, for example, some sewing machines can spell out words on fabrics.
Many modern sewing machines have computers in them. These computers control types of stictches and their settings. Some computerized sewing machines do simple, straight stitches, and others do embroidery.
This means how many stitches per inch. For example, in sewing on a machine the usual # of stitches per inch is 8 - 10 for normal sewing, 6 stitches for basting. On crocheting and knitting an actual pattern will tell you how many stitches per inch is used.
In a sewing machine it adjusts the length of the stitches
The Modern Sewing Machines can do some many stitches. The First Sewing Machines don't
You have listed sewing and first aid as the categories. What sort of stitches are you talking about?
back stitches, machine . running stitches
The types of stitches created by embroidery machines are free-motion sewing, link stitch and computerized. The most versatile is computerized stitches due to the unlimited number of patterns that can be designed.
There are many different types of sewing, and each has different stitches. When sewing fabrics together for clothing, you would use Straight Stitch, Overcast Stitch, Hem Stitch, Zig Zag Stitch, and Overlock Stitch. There are several variations on these also. For cross stitch projects, the main stitch is Cross Stitch, but there are also Half Cross, Vertical Cross, quarter cross, and some others. For needlepoint there are hundreds of stitches. some of the main ones include outline stitch, continental stitch, satin stitch, and enough other stitches to fill a complete stitch dictionary: http://www.needlepointers.com/ShowArticles.aspx?NavID=825 Here is a list of some of the more common types of embroidery stitches, with many variations in each category; Straight stitches, back stitches, chain stitches, buttonhole stitches, feather stitches, cross stitches, knotted stitches, and couching stitches. In Knitting there are just two basic stitches - knit and purl - but they can be employed in many different ways, and instructions for knitting also contain many other terms, such as yarn-over. In Crochet there are also just a few basic stitches, but many variations.
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The Sewing Machine....It'll keep you in stitches!
Locking or overlocking your stitches ensure that the stitches you made don't unravel on you, be it accidental or not.