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Household Hints & Help

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

9. I saw a solution to this

Reply to gkhouston (Reply #8)

Tue Apr 10, 2012, 11:18 PM

Apr 2012

on one of the sewing shows. It's a bit inconvenient, but keeps the machine from eating the few stitches on backup. The host of the show stopped the line of sewing with the needle-down, turned the work and sewed three stitches back from where she came from. It's the same idea to lock the stitches, but for softer materials, avoids the problems with back-up. I haven't tried this yet, but I'll be making a jacket in June for a costume event I go to every Labor day. I'll try it then.