Sewing

Stepper machine equipment can be found anywhere at your department stores, you go to your community gym and see if they have any there for sale, or can search around in new papers and magazine which might be ideal so you can see the quality of the equipment you want.

There are many websites online that offer personalized sewing labels. The labels will require payment and may take from as little as a week to as long as several months for delivery. These websites include Name Maker, Etsy, Colorful Images, and Lillian Vernon.

Button machines can be purchased on many sites as well as in-store. Some of these stores include Amazon, eBay, Michael's Arts and Crafts, and Hobby Lobby.

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Demand. More people want cotton than there is available which was especially true last year.

Among other reasons, the price of transporting the fabric has gotten much higher with rising gas prices, and the land to produce the cotton is disappearing as more and more houses are built on what was once farm land.

Include the fact that water is getting more expensive in drought years, and many acres of cotton fields are left unplanted because of the shortage.

It is very difficult to mathematically calculate how much fabric is needed to make a garment if you want the style and/or draping qualities of bias cut cloth.

Also, for example, you will need much more fabric for a full-skirted dress than you will for a close-fitting style.

Once you have decided upon the design, shape, features and length you want, and how you want any fabric patterns to appear on the finished garment, the next step is to make paper patterns of all the panels and pieces you will need, allowing for comfort, body shape and undergarments, and making due allowance for zip, hem, seams, placing of seams, pockets, making the waistband/belt and trimmings, and very carefully allowing for the extra material necessary for pleats and flares.

And you will need to know the width of the fabric you are going to use. Check with suppliers regarding widths and availability of suitable cloths before you commit yourself to a particular fabric or design.

Clothing fabrics are made in different widths. 150cm (59 inches) is fairly common, but the fabric you have chosen may only be available in a different width.

When you know the width of your fabric, the ideal would be to have a large work table where you can lay out your paper patterns, having marked each piece with a straight line and 'down' arrow. Then you be able to see how best the material could be cut from those patterns and within the edges of that fabric. When laying out the patterns, make sure that the lines and down arrows are always at 45 degrees to the edge of the cloth. You will also need to ensure that you have your paper patterns 'the right way round and the right way up', especially if the material has important stripes or repeating patterns that need to be matched in the finished garment.

If you do not have a suitable table or work surface, you can lay your patterns on the floor.

When you have correctly positioned all the paper patterns, with due allowance for cutting off selvedge and ensuring that repeating fabric patterns will be aligned, you will then be able to measure how much of that fabric you will need.

A simple bias cut A-line skirt can be made from about 3m of 150cm width material, but a heavily pleated skirt will take much more. The actual amount of material needed will vary according to the size and style of the skirt, the width of the fabric and the size of any repeating patterns in/on the fabric.

Of course, if you are working with a pre-cut paper pattern for a particular bias cut style, the instructions on the pack will usually tell you how much fabric is needed.

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If you are working with a standard pattern for leisure wear summer shorts, a simple straight stitch seam will be good enough. If you are making sports shorts, that will require a stronger finish, I suggest a flat fell seam.

Sergers do not make buttonholes in clothing. They are best used for making decorative edging, gathering and seams. A regular straight edge sewing machine is best for buttonholes.

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That depends if you would like to know the size of a single goose or duck duvet feather --the actual down feather from the bird.

Or if you are wondering about the sizes of a down duvet/comforter to cover your bed.

Find answers to both at the related links below.

Sewing Machine 221 Sale website (liked below) specializes in rotary machine manuals.

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My Singer 3343c works with disks. The disks need to have the stitch width (zig zag width as it were) changed from zero to some width. When the stitch width is 0 all the disks are a straight stitch.

1. Decreasing tension while refined bleaching.

2. During dyeing and finishing process, drying every cloth need to loose the tension, reduce the elongation for avoiding over-shrink the width, if it is a scutching continuous heating machine, the fabric need a small fabric container then threading into frame after scutching, to avoid too much tension between scutching and squeezing.

3. During mercerizing, expanding tension need to be controlled for keep width of grey fabric, and weft elongation need to be noticed.

4. After mercerizing, the tension in post-processing need to be tight controlled for the product, because mercerized and elongated weft shrinkage rate can be customized by semi-finished product index in every process, fabric in every machines need be measured, post-processing need to check the former process, for ensure the semi-finished product due width.

5. In every process, suppress washing machine, twitch roller, compression roller and drying cylinder need to be checked and well maintained for keep them smooth and clean. Avoid fabric wrinkle after tension loosed, twitch roller in sink should be well operating, in one machine, line speed of front roller and back roller should not a big difference, warp tension should not let the fabric touch the floor, there should be a tightness adjustment device or a partitioned transmission adjustment device for controlling the tension while long-machine subsection.

6. For some machinery tension need to be controlled by manual, standardize tech operations, strengthen tech operation, strengthen machine cleaning, reduce operation tension, reduce the fabric shrinkage rate effectively.

7. Strengthen checking the mercerizing tech condition, conditional dye-works can use straight roller and clip for mercerizing.

8. Fabric kind which have a big weft shrinkage rate, such as khaki, gabardine and poplin need a preshrunk process, for reducing shrinkage rate. In tight producing, these fabric kind can reach the 4% shrinkage rate best, if only rely on loosing mechanical tension, this shrinkage rate should take preshrink process for more reduction, after preshrink process, the product got better shrinkage and better hand-feeling, even the grains become clear and soft.

9. For fabric kind got a big weft shrinkage rate, some cannot get a good weft shrinkage rate in reasonable condition for unreasonable width of grey fabric, it is worse in bad producing condition, this situation need a improvement approaching. Mercerization kind need to prove the fabric width meet the requirement. Otherwise the grey fabric's specification need to be improved, broaden the width of grey fabric for ensuring weft shrinkage rate reduce to requirement range.

10. Resin finishing can reduce shrinkage and provide better elasticity ( hand feeling need to be noticed ), and coating can also reduce shrinkage.

11. For T/C synthetic blending fabric, the mercerizing process technology and operation an control the shrinkage.

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French seams are mainly used on light fabrics. They are also used for people with delicate skin. When sewing with them, they require at least double the amount of fabric that the item being sewn requires.

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Value is too difficult to be accurate without seeing the gun. Condition which includes the amount of original finish and original configuration will determine value. Auto 5's with recoil pads (other than Mag 12's) poly-chokes and compensators will reduce value. Recommend taking it to a gun shop for appraisal.

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the throat plate covers the opening to the shuttle and shuttle basket. it is also a seam gauge.

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My mom does her embroidery by hand with a needle!!!!!!

People have had to rip out stitching, I am sure, for as long as they have been sewing. Needles, scissors another implements can be used, but the easiest is the kind that has a sharp, forked end that can be placed under the stitch.