Category Archives: tools

making peace with my iron

April 8, 2010 – 10:36 am

If you don’t sew you are probably scratching you head at the title of this post. If you do sew, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Next to your sewing machine, your iron is probably one of the most important tools you use. A bad iron hinders your creativity and a good one helps [...]

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so you think you want a long-arm quilting machine do you?

October 16, 2009 – 12:01 am

A comment from a Craft Nectar reader prompted me to write about the pros and cons of owning a long-arm quilting machine. Initially I wrote a post and then decided that I should invite Heidi Kaisand of APQS and Gina Halladay, a Gammill dealer, to give you their points of view as well. So although [...]

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attached to rickrack

March 19, 2009 – 9:05 pm

I love rickrack but my befuddlement with it started when I was six or seven years old. I had a white dress with some tiny red rickrack sewn on it. The manufacturer had attached it by sewing a straight seam down the center of the rickrack, which meant that after the first washing the zigs [...]

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oiling your sewing machine

March 12, 2009 – 11:52 am

Several readers of my previous post on spring cleaning your sewing machine asked for a tutorial on oiling the rest of a sewing machine. So I thought I’d post that info as well. Cleaning and oiling go hand in hand. Clean first, then oil. But the tricky thing is finding the right balance. Oil attracts [...]

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spring cleaning for your sewing machine

March 9, 2009 – 2:14 pm

I’ve learned from teaching workshops that many sewers are hesitant to give their bobbin cases a good cleaning as often as they should. It seems as if some are afraid to remove the parts necessary to give their machines a good cleaning and others simply forget. So my partner in crime, Bill, and I have [...]

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