One of the best things that you can do for yourself.
And the garments that you're sewing is to create good habits
from the start.
These are things that you shouldn't even think about.
They should just be on autopilot so that you can free
up your brain space for important things like actual sewing and
the garment construction and not putting things,
the wrong sides together,
things like that.
I have over the many,
many years of sewing found so many different little habits that
really helped with the ease and flow and make the whole
sewing process so much more enjoyable.
And in this video,
I'm going to show you the top five habits that I
think that every seller should,
should create for themselves to make their whole sewing experience a
much more pleasurable one.
Welcome back.
My lovely ladies and gents,
thank you for joining me for another sewing video.
Now, if we haven't met yet,
my name is Evelyn Wood and I am a vintage style
dressmaker. And I also teach my sewing students a lot of
good habits that they should try and get into from the
very start,
because we all know as way harder to actually break a
bad habit than it is to just start a new one
from the beginning.
So there's a few,
these aren't tips,
these aren't sewing tips.
These are habits.
So these are something that you should develop that you just
get into the habit of doing so you don't even think
about it.
Some are for safety,
some are for workflow.
Actually, all of them are really for workflow in the,
in the grand scheme of it all to make it so
much smoother process.
I am all about streamlining those processes and making it easy
and simple and quick out for you to do habit.
Number one,
take your foot off the footprint of pedal.
Anytime that you're actually putting your hands near the needle.
Now, this one is obviously more of a safety reasons,
and that's why we're getting it out of the way first.
So one of the best,
best habits that you can get yourself into any time That
you're going to go change the needle or Do anything with
your little fingers close to that needle,
you want to take your foot off the foot pedal entirely,
put it down on the floor beside before then you continue
to play around with anything where the needle is getting into
that habit.
Like you don't want your puppy to come in.
You don't want a door to slam.
You don't want your child to come in and all of
a sudden start will you,
and you've slammed your foot down on the pedal accidentally.
And here are your fingers right here.
We've all heard that horror story.
And I don't want that to happen to you.
Fortunately, that's never happened to me,
but that's because I have developed this good habit of taking
my foot off the foot pedal and just putting it down
on the floor beside when I'm not sewing.
And especially when you're going close to the needle habit.
Number two that you want to get into is developing a,
of keeping all of your pieces or your garment,
or you cut gum at pieces,
keeping them all either right side up or wrong side,
up, develop a system that works for you.
So let me explain.
So in my workflow,
this is something that helps me so much.
So whenever I come to the machine and I've got all
of my pieces,
you know,
laid out that I'm using,
I always keep them either right sides together.
Or if I have to pull a piece out or say,
I take away a piece,
I will always keep them out in front of me,
right. Sides facing up.
So that way,
whenever I come back to this piece,
I know that if it's facing upwards,
I know that this side is the right side because that's
the habit I've developed.
So this is really useful when say,
you know,
you get stuck on something and you don't finish it.
And you come back the next day and you look at
these pieces and like this fabric here,
you can't really tell the difference between right and wrong sides.
You'll be able to know because you know,
your system is that you leave them all right sides facing
up or right sides together.
Of course it is a good idea to actually,
if you can't tell the difference between the right and wrong
side, to actually mark it with some chalk or a pin,
but that's a D that's more like a tip.
This is a habit that will get you in your workflow.
Good habit.
Number three is to trim and press as you go.
So as you sew a seam,
you want to press that theme that way when you come
to, so the next section,
the scene's already flat in place exactly where you want it
to be,
and it won't be flapping around and it won't get in
the wrong place.
So the best,
one of the best dressmaking habits to get a really neat
finish on all your garments is to trim all those nasty
threads out of the way.
So you don't end up with a mess and press every
seam. As you say,
good sewing habit.
Number four is to always leave a bobbin in your bobbin
case, never leave it empty.
How many times have you left your sewing machine and you
haven't put the bobbin back in,
forgotten all about it and just started sewing the next time.
It never ends well,
does it?
So to avoid that trouble and having such horrible thread masses
that you don't want to deal with,
always make sure that you leave a bobbin in your bobbin
case, no matter what,
just always put one back in there.
So it's always got a bubble in it and you weren't
ended up with a lot of trouble that you don't want
to fix.
Good sewing habit.
Number five is machine maintenance.
That's right.
Maintain your equipment.
One of the biggest habits you can get into is just
to clean and D fluff your machines.
They're going to last us so much longer.
They're going to so,
so much nicer and having a clogged up machine can actually
cause you problems.
If you're having a lot of thread issues,
like you're getting those horrible cotton locks,
those big nested knots of horrible mess,
it could just simply because your machine is dirty.
So invest in,
it probably actually comes with your machine.
To be honest,
you've seen this,
I know you have it's it comes with your kit.
So this little lint fluffer is your best friend.
Get in the habit of doing it after every job,
once a week,
whatever it might be,
you need to do it fairly regularly.
And just,
you need to pull off like the metal plate on your
machine and get right underneath there in the bobbin case,
particularly your overlook is the biggest one to get rid of
all the fluff,
because it has the most fluff on it.
Whenever I see I'm a sewing machine mechanic,
I always like to ask them what their biggest advice and
tips are for maintaining machine.
And they just,
the one thing that I always say is just keep it
clean of fluff.
So that's from them to me now from me to you
keep your machine clean of fluff.
And if you need to also oil your machine,
get in the habit of doing that once a month or
however long you need to do check your machine and manual.
It'll tell you what you need to do.
So for not only a better,
smoother sewing,
but get in the habit of having a checklist of what
scheduling you will de fluff and oil and clean your sewing
machines and your equipment.
It is these five good habits that I have found over
the many years of my sewing that have really helped with
my workflow.
As I said,
they aren't sort of tips for sewing,
but they are habits that you want to develop.
So it should be like,
you shouldn't even have to think about these things,
things anymore.
It just becomes part of your routine and just what you
do. And it's far easier to develop these things when you're
just starting,
rather than trying to break bad habits.
So my advice is to get in and just get getting
early with developing good sewing habits for not only yes,
safety and good workflow and machine longevity,
keep your equipment nice too.
Now of course,
there are so many other good habits that I'm sure that
I don't even know no about Eva.
So I really want to hear what either habit you think
is the best through these,
or please add your own.
If you have something to add,
put it in the comments below and make sure you all
read them because there'll be a little gold mine of extra
tips and habits that we should all get into so that
we can have a better workflow in our sewing.
I really look forward to reading those,
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