Many thanks to Julie Jackson for tipping us off to this great Betty Hutton performance from the 1947 musical The Perils of Pauline. Hutton plays an exhausted garment sweatshop worker, and this is her sarcastic ode to her sewing machine. Link.
Watch this great ThreadHeads video that great for beginning sewers, a sewing machine 101. You learn what each of the parts are, how to wind a bobbin, thread the machine, and more.
Erin of A Dress A Day has an extensive write up on how to choose a sewing machine. I really like all her tips on how to test out machines and time limits for research. Pictured above is her recent purchase, a Juki. Link.
MP4 Video | QT Video | Hi-Def | Subscribe If you are like me, you’ve probably been dreaming or drooling over a Bernina sewing machine for a while now. With Bernina at the Maker Faire in Austin, I wanted to find out more about these fantastic sewing machines and why they are considered to be […]
Burda Style has started a series of sewing tutorials for beginners. This week the tutorial is for threading a machine and a previous tutorial explained pattern layout. Link.
We are so happy to announce that Bernina sewing machines will be a sponsor at Maker Faire Austin, October 20-21 at the Travis County Fairgrounds! So for those of you looking for a new sewing, quilting, or embroidery machine, come by to the fair to check out Bernina. I’m excited to test one out myself! […]
Malissa Long writes in to let us know that the Janome Hello Kitty sewing machine, although super cute, just isn’t a good machine. Malissa recommends the Brother CS-6000 which we also talked about in our sewing machine round up last December. Malissa writes: The machine you recommended with out a review is a piece of […]
