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| Twin needle sewing on the Bernina Activa 220 |
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Make template out of board and lay it
on the fabric. Then cut around it with a
rotary cutter. You can also trace around
the template with a pen and then cut out the
fabric with scissors if you prefer...
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Cut out double thickness or as many layers
as your rotary cutter can handle...
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Now overlock the squares, you can use a contrast
cotton if you like. You can leave them as they are
too...But I prefer them edged it gives the cleaning cloth some class! |
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| Use woolly nylon on the lower lopper of your overlock/serger. I'm using a 3 thread overlock stitch |
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| Curve the corners as you overlock the squares |
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I use a close overlock stitch to finish the edges
but you can also use a wider spaced stitch.
I prefer the closer stitch...
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| All finished with curved edges ready to fold |
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| Put away and ready to use.... |
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| This clear foot is very good and worth purchasing enables you to see where you have to join up your stitching. It's much easier with this clear foot |
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| Janome Centre Guide Foot Part number: 795819108 for a 3 needle CoverPro, costs around $79.....easy to use but a bit tricky to get on |
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| Top stitching on the neck band |
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| The neck band was short lived, I didn't catch all the fabric when I machine sewed it in place. Too late now to save the neck band I just cut it off. Then I turned the neck hem to the inside and sewed a 2 thread cover stitch..... |
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| This is the top stitching using a two thread cover stitch and using the clear foot |
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| This is the inside stitching, my turn over is way too big. I didn't used my usual sticky note guide I just guessed! If this happens just use sharp scissors, not snips and cut the hem flush with the stitching. Then you'll have a smaller tidier hem....be careful though. Yes I did it I snipped through the fabric and made a hole using very sharp SNIPS... |
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| Sleeve hems |
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| T-shirt all finished...hem fixed up, now it's a bit shorter |
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| Stitching to the end of the fabric..... |
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| Lift foot, use and pull the threads towards you. Then pull the fabric backwards towards the left side....Sometimes I have to turn the wheel to release the stitches before I can pull the fabric back |
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| You need to cut the thread, there is a thread cutter on the side of the machine. Then knot or sew in the thread to stop the stitches unravelling...I use fabric glue. This is important as the thread will unravel easily.... |
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| Use a postie/stickie note pad as a seam guide... |
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| Use a 'Humper Jumper' or is it Hump Jumper when stitching. Then sew slowly over the seam. You can also flatten out your turn over seam opposite to body seam. This will reduce the bulk on the hem seam... |
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| Have plenty of scraps of material ready to use for starting off or finishing plus for testing the stitches before you sew |
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Janome CoverPro 1000CP is a light weight stand
alone, free arm cover hem machine You can carry it around
easily....Also you are able to adjust tensions manually to suit your fabric. It also has an extension table but I don't use it... |
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| Light... and thread cutter to the left (you can't see it in pic) It has a large bed space too... |
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| Thread tensions can be adjusted manually and are colour coded |
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| Inside the CoverPro...lower lopper, simple colour coded diagram to follow for threading the machine |
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| Close up...Sideways view of lower lopper |
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| Manual is easy to follow and user friendly... |
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| Alpacas.... |
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| I like knitting their wool....so soft |
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| Rounding up the ducks.... |
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| Eyeballing those ducks! |
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| His fleece was so hard, bought back memories when I use to spin the fleece.... |
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| Time to leave....all sandy & messy! |
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| You can source this wool in NZ but my batches were from Japan. I've finally got around to knitting them up 2 years later... |
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| I had a reluctant model and in the end this one charged a fee to pose....Very wise child, holiday pocket money solved! |
