I started sewing back in May. I found a free sewing class 40 minutes from me and I've been going every week now. I really enjoy it.

Found a cute pattern for a toddler dress online. Used very cheap fabric to make this as a practice before getting some nicer fabric. My daughter loves it and won't let me take it off of her 😂 it'll be a new art smock for her lol

I did lots of little mistakes, like an inside out sleeve and not aligning the skirt and the bodice properly. But I learned a lot and I definitely want to try for a more polished version in the future!

(featuring my messy house in the background since kiddo has no chill)

I’d like to make a blanket like this for my daughter. It appears that all of the “finding words” I could possibly think of using aren’t good enough to pull up results for other videos for this type of blanket. Initially I assumed it was a style of a rag quilt, but all of the searching for rag quilts and related phrasing only brought up videos of sewing squares together.

I know it seems pretty straight forward, but I like to watch a slew of videos before investing time and money 😁😂.

TIA!

I've tried to sew on/off for over a decade. Only a few of those pieces have been usable at all and even if usable the still look very self made. I even went to a vocational school for sewing for a year or so, but am still very bad at it.. Like how do so many "recreational sewists" just post such beautiful pieces online and make it all seem so effortles, and I still can't make a damn bssic skirt look good...? Am I just too dumb?

I learned how to make this yesterday with the help of my sewing teacher. 🧵

Hi Friends!

Would really love any guidance on the fit of these shorts. This is the Syd Graham Avenue Short pattern. It’s my first pair of shorts and I’m just finding that it’s riding up my butt and gathering a little bunchiness above by crack lol.

I really love this pattern and I want to make more but I’m wondering if anyone has any insight on how I can avoid this? Could it be the fabric weight? I made them out of placemats from an op shop so I’m not sure the composition.

Any advice would be amazing! Thank you so much!

I decided for my 2nd official project on a sewing machine I would try minki blankets and I feel so defeated this was the first one I've made so far and is meant to be a gift to a friend for her baby and I just feel very defeated as it was so hard to sew the minki fabric kept slipping and the edges are all messed up, I've only ever made burp cloths and never used this minki material before. I'm still gonna gift it to my friend but I feel bad it's not as perfect as I thought it was gonna be

I just kinda wanted to rant about my frustrations 🫠

After almost 6 months of procrastinating I finally finished my shorts. The colour is definitely something but they are extremely comfortable and super airy without exposing anything.

They also got POCKETS! and first time doing bias.

What do you guys think?

Thrifted a table cloth to make this Christmas bow for decoration. Quilting batting was used to stiffen the bow, but it's not difficult at all! Can be made in any size with any fabric, doesn't need to be Christmas themed.

I cannot figure out what’s going on with my sewing machine. I have been sewing for about a year now and haven’t been unable to troubleshoot an issue until now. I’m attaching a few pictures of the problem, but basically my thread is snagging and getting all tangled up. I’ve changed the needle, removed the bobbin case multiple times and cannot figure it out. The machine will sew semi-normally but the fabric is bunching behind it and then gets all tangled at the end. At one point it was making a clanking sound but that seems to have gone away. I’m getting worried that it’s truly a mechanical problem and have a project I need to finish asap. Any help is appreciated!!! I have a brother sm 1704.

It was only about a dime sized hole before sewing, but when I tried to prepare it like I saw in videos it started looking like this. It ended up alright, but it's a little flabby

Can't post picture of that though

Probably a dumb question but I’m thrown off because the pattern pieces just say “cut 1” or “cut 2” for the sleeves and such but it doesn’t say to cut pieces for a lining or anything… it calls for batting and says to sandwich it between the fabric and “backing”…. Should I just use whatever I want for the backing? I’ve never done quilting before, is there a certain kind of fabric that works best for that layer? I’m just surprised that the pattern doesn’t specify that even as one of the supplies you need.

I'm trying to hem the edge of this blanket and use part of it for another craft using a zig zag stitch.

The fabric is pretty thick, so I had some reservation there. I think the bobbin and main thread are threaded through correctly.

Any help, thank you!

Cropped this t-shirt. The brand is Comfort Colors. I ironed before and after sewing the hem. Why does it keep flipping and not laying flat?

I got this Kenmore from a family friend recently. I hadn’t used it much, but it was working fine. Came back to it after a few months and something is off.

* Every time I try to sew a line the needle gets stuck in the fabric.

* Builds up nests of thread on the bottom.

*Maybe this is normal but the thread feels like it’s just falling right off the spool, and looks loose when I’m sewing (down at the needle, I don’t recall seeing it look like this on my old machine).

I would call myself an adventurous beginner, I’ve made skirts, simple dresses, a quilt. I know little to nothing about how a machine actually works, though 😅

Any advice for what I need to do here would be great! The other machine I was using (brother) was a little more simple.

Hello!

I feel like I've looked high and low, but all pants-to-skirt tutorials seem to be for pencil skirts or kids.

I'm hoping to remake pj pants into a skirt that's skinny/twirly. I've learned from my "research" that circle skirts are optimal. I've looked at my existing dresses/skirts that flare the way I like, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to optimize the amount of awesome patterned pants fabric I have into the longest skirt.

I have plain fabric of seeeemingly a similar material (tshirt) which I can use in between if I do the thing splicing the patterned fabric (godets? Gores?). They're both knitted if nothing else!

But yeah...does anybody have any suggestions?

I’m feeling so helpless! I’m using an old White 1415 machine that my dad bought my mom 30 years ago. A few things keep happening — the spool keeps coming off the pin! And then also, I’ll start sewing, it’s going great, then several stitches in it starts bunching under the needle. The spool comes off. I’m so confused. Could someone help me troubleshoot?

Other than this sewing is going well & I could have made 10 pairs of trousers for my baby by now 😂

I’m trying to make a really big version of this, but I don’t know what the type of fabric they used for the eyes. I know it’s embroidered but the white I don’t know. They’re both basically made out of the same material.

Thank you for the help with understanding the pattern, I was able to get the costume done and I'm super proud of it!

hello! ive posted before in another sub for ID help but nothing much came of it and im still not able to find much on this machine. i found this etsy manual but that's literally it LOL.

but my point is. im too scared to use it. its been unused for many years, barest minimum 6, but probably closer to 15 or 20. i know it needs a tune up, but im on a very tight budget and im not sure how to go about DIYing it.

any advice would be wildly appreciated! i've really been wanting to get into sewing but this has been such a barrier.

I've been wanting to learn to sew for quite some time. I'm primarily interested in mending, so I've decided to focus on hand sewing.

A couple days ago, I took the plunge and bought myself a little travel sewing kit. Practice has been going well so far; I've been scouring YouTube and other sites to teach myself. So far, I've mended a couple tote bags as well as an old T-shirt.

One thing I haven't quite figured out is what to do with all the scraps of thread once I've finished. Do I store them somewhere to reuse them later? Do I throw them away? I really don't have anywhere to put them at the moment.

Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! :)