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Posted by Pogonip on December 10, 2006, 10:36 pm
BEI Design wrote:
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> Pogonip wrote:
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>>Some people use a pad of "post-it" notes, that have the
>>sticky on the back. Putting a pad of them there makes as
>>high a guide as you want, and when it gets dirty, you can
>>tear off the top one.
>>Check with your mechanic, but I don't think those thin
>>advertising type magnets are strong enough to interfere
>>with your machine. Certainly don't use the heavy
>>powerful seam guide, but ask if using one of those little
>>business card magnets would hurt.
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>
> I love the post-it notes idea! I have always used masking tape
> in a crunch.
>
> Beverly
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>
It is a neat idea, and not my own. I got it from sewists on the
TreadleOn email list -- a very creative bunch!
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by Joy Beeson on December 10, 2006, 9:42 pm
Sometimes I use "re-positionable correction tape" -- Post-It tape --
to mark a seam allowance. Not often, because it happens that the
right edge of my machine's needle plate is exactly half an inch from
the leftmost needle position -- rather odd, when the machine is metric
-- and half an inch is the seam allowance I use most often.
For narrower allowances, I guide on the feed dogs and various parts of
various feet, and shift the needle positions.
When I'm hand sewing, I use correction tape on the fabric. Since it
tends to break loose when the fabric flexes or stretches, I use an
inch or less and keep shifting it to mark my way.
If I need to mark fabric for machine sewing, I usually use a
water-erasable marker, but I also have an assortment of pencils -- the
most-useful pencil isn't an official sewing marker, but one with a
"lead" of real calcium-carbonate chalk, the sort that was used on
blackboards in the first half of the twentieth century.
(Modern blackboard crayons are not chalk and might stain fabric. Real
chalk is a cleaning agent, and quite safe for color-fast plant
fibers.)
Joy Beeson
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joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ -- sewing
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
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Posted by on December 18, 2006, 8:00 pm
You can purchase an adhesive seam guide from either Clotilde.com or
from nancysnotions.com. I have one on my serger and my machine. It
measures from 3/8" to 3" and is really helpful
ScrapNana22 wrote:
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> I just bought a Brother CS-6000i sewing machine from Wally World and
> while surfing the net I came to realize that you CANNOT use a magnetic
> seam guide on the computerized sewing machines! Can anyone tell me
> where I can get some type of guide for my Brother that is not
> magetized?
> In the meantime, I have cut me a piece of foam core about 3.5 inches
> long and I can tape it to my needle plate with "painter's tape", but I
> really would like to find another solution.
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me in this matter!
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Posted by on December 18, 2006, 8:01 pm
You can purchase an adhesive seam guide from either Clotilde.com or
from nancysnotions.com. I have one on my serger and my machine. It
measures from 3/8" to 3" and is really helpful
ScrapNana22 wrote:
show/hide quoted text
> I just bought a Brother CS-6000i sewing machine from Wally World and
> while surfing the net I came to realize that you CANNOT use a magnetic
> seam guide on the computerized sewing machines! Can anyone tell me
> where I can get some type of guide for my Brother that is not
> magetized?
> In the meantime, I have cut me a piece of foam core about 3.5 inches
> long and I can tape it to my needle plate with "painter's tape", but I
> really would like to find another solution.
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me in this matter!
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>
>>Some people use a pad of "post-it" notes, that have the
>>sticky on the back. Putting a pad of them there makes as
>>high a guide as you want, and when it gets dirty, you can
>>tear off the top one.
>>Check with your mechanic, but I don't think those thin
>>advertising type magnets are strong enough to interfere
>>with your machine. Certainly don't use the heavy
>>powerful seam guide, but ask if using one of those little
>>business card magnets would hurt.
>
>
> I love the post-it notes idea! I have always used masking tape
> in a crunch.
>
> Beverly
>
>