Sewing

An embroidery hoop, colored floss, needles, scissors and a cloth or canvas.

The National Sewing Machine Company produced the Damascus sewing machine and sold it through Montgomery Wards catalog.

blanket stitch, its simple and sturdy i use it for my thick and thin patches on my punk vest and ironically my uncles cop uniform

Sewing a straight line has to be done very carefully. I recommend using a machine, and lining up the edge of your project with one of the guide lines along the base of the sewing machine. You may want to practice on a piece of paper beforehand.

Quilt has two meanings:

# A decorative bed cover or wall hanging made of colored fabric pieces stitched together with a batting center and a cotton or muslin back.

# One step of the process of assembling a quilt that involves stitching the layers together by hand or machine in either straight lines or patterns. This holds the material together so the batting doesn't shift or bunch, and enhances the beauty of the quilt. The exact origin of the quilt is unknown, but they have been made in many different cultures over the centuries. The oldest known remnant dates to c. 960 BCE, in Egypt.

The order these items were invented is this:

bifocals - 1760

sewing machine - 1830

Light bulb - 1879

Air conditioning - 1902

microwave oven - 1945

Yes, all pattern peices are printed on a single sheet of paper and the user has to cut them apart before pinning to the fabric. Most new patterns are supplied this way (although a nuisance to cut up, it does mean that whenever you buy a pattern you are guaranteed to have all the pieces that you need).

Set the stitch width to #3, the stitch length to reverse, and the selection dial to AK (straight stitch). Open bobbin casing door by sliding it toward you. Remove old bobbin if necessary by lifting metal latch and simply pulling bobbin out. Place empty bobbin in bobbin casing (small disc side down) and replace latch. To the left of the bobbin casing is a tiny metal circular button that doesn't actually look like a button, it just looks like it might be part of the machine, push it down. If it is too hard to push then it might need a little bit of oil. Push it until it locks down. Keep the sliding door open. Okay, take a breath. : ) Thread the machine as you would normally would, instead of sliding the tail of thread under the foot, just thread the needle and gently wrap the tail around the knob that is on the left side of the foot just once,(the screw that allows you to change feet), continue holding the thread and now push the pedal at a moderately speed to wind the bobbin. Congrats, you did it!

Franklin, Ben that is, invented Bifocal glasses, a Lightning rod ( or arrestor) and the Franklin stove, a type of fireplace. he also devised the Franklin long arm lever grip device used well into recent times in Grocery stores. Franklin did not invent or design, market, etc Sewing machines. Elias Howe, and Isaac Singer (sewed-up) that trade!I have never heard of a Franklin sewing machine- White, yes, Singer, Necchi, Pfaff or something like that, even Egyptian models, but no Franklins.

The seam is simply the name of the line that is created when two pieces of fabric are joined together. If you are sewing any two pieces together, the place where they are joined is called the seam.

Maybe you are wondering about the seam allowance, which is the amount of fabric alloted to sewing the pieces together. The seam allowance is the distance from the edge you put your line of sewing. In many fabrics that allowance can be very small, but some fabrics require a larger allowance to minimize fraying.

A yard is 3 feet and there 12 inches in a foot so there are 36 inches in a yard.

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Safety pin is used for whatever you want it to do.

Safety pin can be used in an emergency for a missing button, a failed snap or to hold a corsage onto a dress.

I assume by trouble, you mean with licensing restrictions and rules for specific football teams, perhaps college or NFL teams? I also assume you want to make the helmets and sell them. A way to get around licensing regulations is to make the helmets general and not include the name of the team on the helmet. I do not know if the actual logo would have to be changed a little, too, but I would assume it would have to be. Otherwise, if you wish to make exact replicas of the team logos and names and sell them, you would need to contact the schools or NFL to obtain a license to make them. I got the NFL application once and it was pretty detailed about 10 years ago when I got it, but it is not impossible to meet the requirements. As I remember it, though, it was pretty costly. There also might be a certain number you can make and sell without a license, but I doubt it. I don't think there's a market for premade plastic canvas needlepoint replicas of NFL and/or college football helmets. You could sell them as craft kits, but not premade. How about doing these of the local high school teams? Licensing a high school team's logo wouldn't be expensive--at most a couple dollars payable to the athletic fund per helmet--and I think they'd be popular.

Flip it inside out and over stitch the hole, flip it back and iron it. If you have a serger or a friend with a serger, using the seamline, start about an inch above the hole and serge down to about an inch below the hole. Try to run the extra threads at both ends back inside the new seam, using a blunt embriodery needle; or tie a knot close to the start/finish of the new seam.

Because of the popularity of these machines and the excellent quality, many are still in use today. The value to collectors will depend entirely on how well the machine has been maintained, and what accessories you have. From what I have seen, no one is paying much more than $100 for them, even in the best condition. There is an excellent forum for singer treadle sewing machine owners on about.com where you can find a lot of information about your machine and share ideas with other owners. See the link I have provided.

scissors are used for cutting objects, or materials. scissors are not for heavy duty tools, but are usually used everyday for cutting fabric or paper.

To emphasize seam lines, you can flatten the seam flaps inside the garment and then sew them down on both sides of the seam on the outside of the fabric in contrasting colored thread. Another idea is to add a contrasting trim to the seams of the garment, like rick-rack, braid, or sequins.

Wind on the under thread, run the top thread, pick a type of seam and stitch length. Insert cloth, fasten the thread by a short run back & forth, then do your seam. Finish by short runs back & forth.

To hem a dress with the hem the same distance from the floor all around the hem, the person to wear the dress should put it on with the shoes she would most likely wear with the dress. After deciding the hem length, a friend, using a straight ruler or yard stick would then hold the ruler, end on floor, and at what ever height the wearer wants, pin the dress completely around at the desired hem length. The skirt fabric would then be trimmed the same length from the pins to the edge of the fabric, Then general hemming directions would be followed. Only by measuring from the floor UP, can the dress hang the same distance from the floor all around.

3 dozen inches, but this isn't a customary unit of measure in this instance.

There is, or was, very little difference apart from the name. The Sport came with a carrying handle and fewer accessories.

Since there are different adjustments for every brand of sewing machines, the best you can do is taking it to a technician who will teach you how to make bobbins. It's a very easy operation.

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I have been researching this very topic. There are many people asking the same thing about this machine. How do you thread the needle? I have no idea. From what I hear, since there is not bobbin, the sewing just comes out of the fabric when pulled. If you find the info, please contact me at dorothyprudiefabrics @ yahoo.com

Thanks.

Answer two:

Take the machine to a sewing machine repair shop and they will show you how to use it.