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Part 5/10 of teaching you how to sew: sewing machine tension 馃馃У
If this feels confusing, you鈥檙e not alone, I still always mix these up.
The way to guarantee you鈥檒l always have clean stitches with no loops or puckering fabric, is to test on scrap fabric.
I do this every single time I sew a new project just to make sure I have it right.
In part 6 we鈥檒l be practicing the most common stitches you鈥檒l use!!
Happy sewing 馃鈽猴笍
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Teaching you how to sew in less than ten days part five. Understanding tension. Messy stitches? Thread breaking? These are all signs of incorrect tension. Sewing tension controls how tightly your thread is pulled from both the top and the bottom. Think of it like the grip of a handshake. Too loose and it falls apart. Too tight and it's uncomfortable. You need to be adjusting your tension based on the type of fabric you're sewing. Sometimes even the amount of layers that you're selling. Most machines are gonna have either a dial or a button where you can adjust. The higher you have the number set, the tighter the tension. The lower you have the number set, the looser the tension. I've been in this five years rank I still get those mixed up, so feel free to write that down. Now better single fabric is gonna sew differently, so I can't give you an exact number to set your tension at. But I recommend cutting a scrap piece of your fabric, threading your machine with two different colors for your bobbin and spool thread, setting your tension somewhere in the middle like four or a five. Simply sewing a straight row of stitches. Good tension is invisible. So when it's right, you're gonna see clean even stitches on both sides of your fabric. If you see the bobbin thread coming up through the top of your fabric, lower your tension number. If you see loops underneath your fabric and your upper thread bunching underneath, raise the number. Repeat this and keep sewing rows of stitches slightly adjusting the tension each time until you get some nice clean stitches. We'll say you probably are not gonna have to adjust it that much. I find that for the most part, I'm usually sewing somewhere in, like, the three to seven range. If you're still running into problems and adjusting your tension dial doesn't help, just try to rethread your machine completely. If you wanna see how to do that, go back to part three. Also, make sure that when you're threading your machine, your presser foot is up, and when you're actually sewing, your presser foot is lowered. Most machines will have a little dial on the back right here that you can use to lift it and lower it. 18 for part six, where we're gonna go over the basic stitches that you can start practicing with.
