Giveaway! The Sewtionary

I’m always looking up how to put in invisible zippers

Like almost everyone else here it’s zippers. Zippers are my kryptonite.

I’m mostly self-taught (does learning on the internet count as instruction?) so many technical names for patterns send me scrambling to look things up. I’m currently obsessed with learning how to sew the best button holes every, my machine’s ‘one step buttonhole’ function doesn’t seem to be working properly. I also always forget the difference between a slip stitch vs blind hem stitch so little things like that would be useful to look up!

Ooooh! How exciting. Ditto on the welt pockets!

Flat felled seams, unless I’ve made one in the recent (let’s say 3 months) past I always need a refresher (I use online tutorials or Colette Sewing Book). I hope, one day, to be sewing on a regular enough basis to only require reference materials for really cool couture linings, but alas, not in foreseeable future.

Not double dipping, but on zippers: an advanced beginner I was in a sewing workshop with said she overcame her zipper phobias, and presumably amnesia, by making zippered makeup bag sized bags until she had that sense of mastery. Using her scraps and those lovely fat quarters us non-quilters are always trying to come up with uses for, she gave them as gifts and became a senseii of all zippers. I thought that was pretty brilliant.

Zippers, maybe one day I’ll move on autopilot but not yet.

Zippers! Also, though it’s not a technique, the number one thing I end up searching for is setting the tension on my old sewing machine.

Invisible zippers and blind hems always confuse me

I know this isn’t very original, but I always have to remind myself how to do an invisible zipper correctly. Whoops.

I always forget how to insert invisible zippers as well as the laped ones – I always have to check that before I start sewing!

I’d love to be original – but no, truthfully, it’s zips for me, too!

I will probably look up how to sew welt pockets. I haven’t done them so far, but I’m about to make some pants for my brother, so it’s something I’ll definitely need to know how to do.

Zippers, zippers, zippers. Why can’t I ever get the seams to lay smoothly afterward?

Have this book and it’s great for those extra tips. Would love to win a copy for my sister

I have to look up a resource every single time I need to install a zipper, no matter what technique I use.

I look up the Sewaholic tutorial on how to insert an invisible zipper cleanly into a lined dress for almost any garment with a zipper!

I’ve been sewing for years and I still have to look up zippers and buttonholes.

Setting in sleeves. I look it up ALL. THE. TIME.

I look up lots of stuff, but at the moment, hems…

I can never remember all of the hand stitches and when to use them. I would love this book for reference.

I’ve been meaning to look up how to do french seams. again. this looks like a great reference book!

This looks like a fantastic resource… I keep keep looking up invisable zips at the moment, one day I will nail it…certainly by the end of this year if I do make 36 skirts…

I am constantly looking up all the various hand stitches!

I look up tons. I’m definitely in that learning new techniques phase. The thing I seem to come back to over and over is how to finish seams. Especially when the seams are curved.

I look up anything I am confused with or unsure of. It could be anything from zippers to easier techniques.

Welt pockets scare me! So I have avoided them :( But I like them so much!

I’m constantly looking up finishing techniques for my seams. I have a feeling that I’m going to have to invest in a serger at some point, because I have yet to find any other good solution for finishing the seams on knits.

I’m always looking up instructions for an invisible zipper.

My serger… my new and old serger…

Im forever having to look up the older techniques that I prefer to use in my sewing these days, rolled hems, hand picked zips etc …

I would love to read that section on spripes! And I’ve no idea what pad stitching is for… and have never made a welt pocket…The internet is great, but you can’t beat having clear step-by-step photos right next to you at your machine!

It’s a bit embarrassing but I often forget how to put my tread in the in the lower part of the sewing machine. I hope this sentence makes any sense, I’m not a native english speaking person ;) I especially always forget in what direction the tread must go …

Everytime i go to add an invisible zipper i start to doubt myself! and when i check i’ve nearly always gone to do it correctly – i guess i’m always going to worry about it!!

JOHN 12:44-50 44 And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. 45 And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. 47 If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. 49 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

Just wanted to share the word of God with you or anyone reading today and I pray that if you don’t know JESUS CHRIST as Lord and Savior that you will seek Him and REPENT of your sins and give your life to Him today. He died on the cross to pay for our sins so that we don’t have to. He died for us and took the punishment we deserved as sinners against God so that we would not have to endure hell. And He did so because He loves us. And I pray again that today you will leave sin behind and give Christ a chance in your life. He is the only way to eternal life(heaven) and He is waiting with open arms for you. God bless :o)