 Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of sewing 101. So this time we're gonna just practice some simple Sewing techniques some basic things so that as you guys go forward with your sewing and Experimenting especially in regards to your mixed media, which is the primary focus of the sewing 101 series That you'll have a few different techniques under your belt using just a basic machine nothing fancy If you want proper dressmaking tutorials, I really really recommend that you go to YouTube channels like stitchless TV I'm gonna set this to not go to sleep Okay, which I forgot to do before I turn the camera on and I'm not gonna turn it off now All right, so I really recommend that you go to channels like stitch list TV. I'll try to put the link in the description below She got a really great tutorial on on Garment making and specifically For us for what we're doing. We're mostly Using it in conjunction with our mixed media making journal covers and that sort of thing But I want to show you some basic stuff So I think we're gonna start making a little a sort of a so our own sewing reference book so Showcasing different stitches something kind of like what you would probably do in home back in school So what you'll need is some Index cards or cardstock cut down to size for your journal in this case. These are I think these are four by six. Let's see Yeah, these are four by six I have a lot of these because when you buy them these are blank ones at state like staples You can't just get one pack of them. You get like six packs of them. So I have a lot of these So we're gonna use these So you'll need one of these for each page and you're gonna need some fabric Just simple woven like cotton fabric Cut to about the same size as your cards it can be a little bit bigger or smaller But around the same size as your cards and you'll need one sheet of fabric for each technique I don't know for sure how many techniques we're gonna do as we go along There might be more than one episode of this so as we go along you might need more fabric and that's fine Ideally you want to fabric with a really clear distinct right side and a wrong side Mine does is not I can tell which side is the wrong and right side. You guys probably can't One side of the fabric has Let's see what there we go has a much clearer sharper Copy of the pattern on it than the other But for you, I would recommend that you use some kind of a fabric that maybe is even white on the back where it's printed the fabric The design is printed on the fabric and it's just white on the back. It'd be easier You're gonna need some scissors fabric scissors where yeah, we got some pinking shears, maybe a steam ripper a Small four-inch zipper a hole punch Some pins and this is called fray check. It's a fabric Glue it's basically glue it stops fraying it when it dries clear and when you wash it you can't tell it's even there All right, so let's get started And we're gonna use our little genomy which I've been promising to bring out to you for you guys for quite a while This is just a little basic genomy new home sewing machine it You can't really adjust the stitch length. It has some presets. It only does straight and zigzag It is and it only does so many things you can't do, you know buttonholes easily or any of that stuff on it This is a plain basic machine. This is the one I do lots of mixed media on and Sew paper on and that sort of thing. I don't usually use my big machine So that being said you can also use this for basic sewing which we'll talk about there is a website You can see my iPad right there called so delicious and it seems to be a really good website For lots of different things They have one page with just different types of seams on it and how to how to make them So if you want a good reference material, I do recommend that you go there Alright now that being said we're gonna just do a basic seam. I'm seam seam seam seam This is my right side. So I'm gonna take my little piece of fabric. I'm gonna fold it in half lengthwise I'm gonna cut it half There we go. All right We're gonna do a basic seam Most of your commercial sewing patterns have a five in five eighths inch seam allowance Meaning they want you to sew in from the cut edge Five eighths of an inch we mix media artists. We break rules So unless you're dress making and you're following a commercial pattern, then you can just do whatever kind of seam allowance You want I'm gonna use the edge of my Plate here as a guide. I don't know that's about a half an inch I think I don't think it's quite five eighths, but I'm gonna use it as a guide. I Have let's see. What do I have this set on this is set on a straight stitch And it's set on B. So it's kind of a small one. I think I want to go a little bit bigger So we're gonna go to C So we're gonna just turn the dial to C. It's already threaded and I already have bobbin thread in here I do recommend that if you have Dark fabric use light thread if you have light fabric use dark thread use something that's a different color than your fabric So that you can see your stitches. This is supposed to be a reference book You want to be able to see your stitches so you can see try to remember what you've done All right, so this machine doesn't have any lights on it. You can see it's dark down here My bigger machine has a light on it. Yeah, and that's one of the drawbacks, but I'm okay with it All right, so I'm gonna hold my threads and get started Then I'm gonna hit my back button here and then go forward again and that'll lock my stitches in I'm gonna keep the cut edge of the fabric with that edge of the plate Now this machine cannot go fast. It does not go fast You can't make it go fast. That is fast for this machine Cut our threads That's a basic basic seam Yeah, so I'm gonna press this open and I'll be right back Okay, I've pressed it open and there's only two times I use an iron One if I'm crafting and two if I'm going to a funeral Honestly, I don't use an iron but we're crafting sort of so we've got the eye I've got the iron here in the sewing room. I pulled it out of the laundry room So here I pressed it open flat and generally when you do a seam like that That's what you do. You press it open flat one piece on either side And then you can there's lots of different ways to finish this raw edge of this seam so that it doesn't continue to fray and Ravel you of course can leave it and we're mixed media artists. So we might choose to do that You can of course stitch along the edge like with a zigzag or you can get these pinking shears Which are back basically a zigzag bladed scissor and Cut along the edge there. Can you see that and that gives you an interesting finish? So now as if we do each one of our little samples what I want to do is I'm gonna take out my tiny attacher And I'm gonna staple them just at the top to the card Like that three staples across and you can lift it up and look both sides So that's why you would do that and I want you to journal on the back Any details about the seam? This is a plain seam Plain seam with the zigzag, right? So let's do another one. We've got another card here and another piece of fabric You want to try to find your right side like I said, this is not great fabric for this I want you guys to get a fabric that has a very clear and distinct right pretty side and wrong ugly side And use that we're gonna cut it in half vertically again and again. We're gonna Stitch it just like we did before Make sure the needle in your machine is appropriate to the kind of fabric that you're stitching on Meaning that if you have a thicker fabric you have a thicker needle if you have a thinner fabric you have a thinner needle We're actually gonna let's do one more because I have two I can do two of these Quickly here. Let's do another one Actually, I take that back we're gonna need one more so we'll do three. I Just saw thought of one more there was Oops, we're gonna close that because I lost my bookmark But so delicious Let's do one more. It might not be enough, but that we'll find out in a second. Oops wrong scissors Don't use your pinking shears on fabric on paper if you intend on using them on fabric because it'll dull the scissors really quick And they are really difficult if not impossible to sharpen so don't do that All right, so let's I'm gonna press all of these open and I may actually need one more of them But I if that's the case, I'll be right back Okay, so now we have another plain seam that's pressed flat open on either side And we're gonna flip it over to the right side of the fabric and we're gonna use that seam where the two fabrics join as a guide and We are going to make sure that's The edge of the presser foot Runs along that seam. It's to the left of my presser foot this foot here I'm gonna hold my threads And I'm gonna stitch find my petal. Oh, there it is Now I'm not sewing going back and forth But in a real garment or if you you know paper you want to make sure this stitches don't unravel Then you want to go back and forth at the beginning of the end. Okay, and now I'm gonna do the same thing I'm flipping the fabric over so the stitching line I just made is to the left of my needle and foot and I'm gonna again run that left side of that presser foot along The seam where the two fabric pieces join Okay, and now we have a nice top stitched seam. Where are you there you are, right? So again, we're gonna take that and take our card And we're going to Staple it to our card so we'll be able to see exactly what we did and how we did it, right? Now we have another one and in this case this plain seam I pressed the whole both pieces over to one side I'm going to take these two flaps and I'm going to take one of them and I'm going to trim it down To at least half if not three-quarters of what it is So one side is significantly longer than the other and then I'm going to top stitch Use a row of existing stitching as a guide It's called a welted seam. I keep picking up the wrong scissors, right? So you have that interior little piece that's hidden Sometimes when they do these kind of seams they take this fabric that's going to show and they they Finish the edge with stitching with zigzag or you could pink the edge So we'll take this one and we'll put it on a card. We're going to take another one Now we have this one and this is one's pressed over, but it really shouldn't be I'm going to fix that in a minute. We're going to take this whole seam both pieces And we're going to trim all of it down to about a quarter eighth of an inch Give it a really good haircut Yeah, then we are going to take it and fold it back the other way and Fold it along the seam where the two pieces of fabric are joined and again using our presser foot as a guide and running that that seam along the outside edge of the presser foot or like a Teeny bit away 30 second not not as even a 16th less than that Now when you do this kind of seam you want to do it with wrong sides together when you start at first and When you do the final seam then when you open it, this is the right side But you have this is called a French seam where the whole of the fabric is all enclosed inside There's a little pocket there now So you would sew it first wrong sides together then you would trim the seam Then you would fold it back right sides together so it again, and then when you're done you have a nice right sides together Seam with the stitches all completely hidden and enclosed and nothing is going to rabble Then there's the flat Feld seam is what it's called This is the seam you see on your blue jeans And I had that's why I found so delicious because I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called so I had to go look it up and I know I have a book out in the living room that has it in there, but I couldn't find it So you want to sew your seam and you could do this from either side so You could do your fabric and sew it wrong sides right wrong sides together So you're doing this whole thing from the right side. That's the best way You could do it the other way, but this is the easiest way So again you sew your fabric wrong sides together So when you have your seam with your raw edges This is the pretty side of the fabric facing up. You've taken one half of your seam, and you've trimmed it down low I'm going to go press this other Side of the seam around the cut edge of fabric like this And I'm going to press it flat, and I'll be right back