Journal

The Sewing Journal (page 4)

53 articles on machines, technique, fabric and repair, with new ones published every week.

An overlocker forms a structurally different stitch that wraps the fabric edge, trims and seams in one pass. Whether

Thread fiber decides more about your stitch than the color does.

Blending between printed sizes handles most bodies that fall across two or three sizes on a chart. Here is when

Thread fiber decides more about your stitch than the color does.

Sewing machine oil is a specific light mineral oil, not a general purpose lubricant, and some modern machines must

Threading looks trivial until you learn that the tension discs are physically open only when the presser foot is

Clipping and notching solve a geometry problem: the seam allowance on a curve is either too short or too long once the

Rotary cutters and bent handle shears solve different problems, and neither is a general purpose tool. Here is how

Knitting patterns are compressed notation, not prose. Once you know where the abbreviation list lives and how repeats,

Knitted and woven fabrics fail in different ways, so they need different darns. Here is how to choose between a woven

Blocking sets a knitted fabric into the dimensions you want by relaxing the strains built into it. Which method works

Chiffon, georgette and charmeuse shift while you cut and slip while you sew. The fix is a set of temporary changes to