Journal

The Sewing Journal (page 3)

53 articles on machines, technique, fabric and repair, with new ones published every week.

Every thread brand has a personality once you have run a few spools, and knowing the lines saves you buying the wrong

Monofilament and fine nylon threads exist to disappear.

English paper piecing wraps fabric around paper templates and joins the shapes by hand. Here are papers, basting

Cutting, hand sewing and unpicking concentrate grip force and wrist deviation in ways that add up. This is an

Wool and silk threads are the specialty end of the rack, and each does something ordinary thread cannot.

Wovens interlace, knits loop, nonwovens bond. That structural difference decides stretch, recovery, fraying and which

Serger thread is sold on big cones for a simple reason: an overlock chews through three or four threads at once, and

Fiber family determines moisture behaviour, heat tolerance and recovery long before weave or finish get involved. Here

Cotton thread is the natural match for cotton fabric, which is why quilters reach for it out of habit and instinct.

Metallic thread is the one that makes people swear at their machine, and almost always it is a setup problem rather

Thread weight is one of the most misread numbers in sewing, mostly because it runs backwards: the higher the number,

Manuals, repair advice and troubleshooting guides all assume you know what a take-up lever and a throat plate are. Here