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Summary: Want to put your sewing machine to work? Learn tips for sewing anchor stitches in this free video clip about how to sew a jewelry bag.
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Lenee Alexander Lenee Alexander has been sewing since she was nine years old. When her mother left the sewing machine on their kitchen table, and when her mother wasn't sewin... read more
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Questions & AnswersO.K. so like I told you on the previous clip, since we have this whole thing done, we have our opening. I'm going to show you how to put an anchor stitch on the body of the bag and that's going to help us when we are ready to sow this opening closed to sow it real nice and smooth. That's just a little tip for you, you don't have to do this, but if you do it's going to help you a whole bunch. What I like to do is just kind of pull this apart. You find where the seam is right here. You don't even have to start right there. You can start just a little bit over. I'm going to put my foot down but what I'm going to do before I even sow, I'm going to to make a really long stitch. That means not very many stitches per inch. Maybe three or four and it's going to make it real loose. That's a o.k. Make sure you have some thread left over, cause that's what you're going to pull. See how it's kind of rolling up. That's totally o.k. Just kind of hold it tight and kind of pull it a tiny bit. Find your seam right here and just line it up with that. Just like as if you were closing it but you're just sewing one side of it now. I think that would be far enough. Before you pull it what you want to do is grab it right where the seam...the two threads are coming out just put your fingers and pinch it, then pull it. If you don't, then you might pull the whole thing out because the stitch is so loose. Here this is what it looks like. Mine is even pulling up already a little bit. Just grab one side of it, it could be the back side or the front side of it, it doesn't matter and just pull it real gently. Just make it a little tight. Smooth it over. I think we will go from this side too. Here we go and what this does, it makes this fabric just want to roll over like this. When you get ready to close it, you'll see how much easier that's going to be. You might want to do it to this side because this fabric first of all is a little bit heavier weight. Then also, it just tends to do what this wants it to do. I'll show you how that works when we are ready to close that but, for now what we are going to do; I'm going to show you how to go inside and do the little top stitching on this instead of ironing. So, I'll show you how to do that next.
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