 Hi, you guys Lindsay here welcome back to my channel inside the him and welcome back to the trick-or-treat series Okay, so today is the third part of our series and we're gonna be talking about steam allowance and how to Make sure that you are keeping an even Seam allowance no matter what the seam allowance is So if you're doing a larger one inch two inch three inch him Or if you're doing a smaller quarter inch half inch him or if you're either doing the standard five eighths inch him This is a neat trick that will or is supposed to anyways help you keep that Seam allowance even through the entire seam. So let's see how it went Okay, so this is gonna be a fun one for me probably very humbling But we are going to do a little experiment where we see how accurate I am sewing Unusual seam allowance like one inch. I have the one inch line marked on my machine But you know, sometimes it's hard to follow that so the trick is supposedly Putting this rubber band here and the rubber band acts as a guide where your fabric brushes up against it Barely and keeps it in line. So we are going to do two seam lines One using the rubber band and one not using the rubber band and see if one is more accurate than the other So these are for all those fun hems That we do from time to time or even sometimes Like you're wasting you need to do something Other than five eighths so far it's very easy and mindless I will say It's kind of guiding it up on Here right where it's touching a verb and for the first time And now we're kind of not in a straight line anymore. So So that is using the rubber band. I have to say fairly easy simple to do Now let's take the band off and again, it just slips on right underneath your Sewing foot make sure your needles up obviously I'm gonna add this back on And we are going to use the other side Well, that's a really crooked line Let me straighten that up some. Okay. So now we have a straight line again So let's line it up on those same one inch line that I had there were ran down and see how it goes Well, the first thing I noticed is that wasn't able to go as fast and that's annoying. I like to go fast but in terms of accuracy I have my Seen gauge here and you can see that I stayed on the one inch mark Pretty much all the way throughout Now part of me wonders And we'll see how I did on this side part of me wonders that If it weren't marked right here like let's say I wanted to do Two inches which is all the way out here Or even further like if I wanted to do a three inch hem obviously there would be no guide So let's try the two inch And see how that goes So you just slide the rubber band on Line it up with that two inch mark making sure that it's perfectly straight all along the plate And then we're just gonna use the same fabric Line up the raw edge with the edge of the rubber band see how much faster that goes So much faster So that's cool Now let's try it without a rubber band this back on and Again, we're trying the two inch seam line Okay, so although I think I'm fairly accurate in Sewing using this little grid that's on my sewing machine Um, it's really interesting that is not a two inch Wait, what is happening? Yeah, is that not a two inch seam line. Oh my word No, it's one and three quarters. Maybe that's why I've been having so many issues with my hem That's two and three quarters one two three and the edge of the plate is two inches interesting Okay, well, I learned something new um Even though I was accurate at sewing the one and three quarters seam line all the way through I think that's with practice if I were a beginner I think the Iran trick would be really great or if you wanted to do Like a really wide three or four inch Hem I would put the needle down Butch the hem guide right up on it like so and then put the rubber band on Maybe put the rubber band on first Then needle down then hem guide and then make sure the two Kind of line up Like so and just make sure that that rubber band is on there straight and then you would be able to get a really good Accurate three inch hem up to I guess I could do up to maybe four and a half I don't know why I'd want to do anything longer than a four and a half inch seam But if I did I could go all the way up to where this guy is it's as far as we're as far as the rubber band will go Well, there you go. So I think that because I'm a bit of an experienced sewist I'm pretty good at using the plate or is it the throat of my sewing machine And I'm pretty good at keeping the fabric steady, but Yes, Lindsay from five years ago who was just learning how to sew definitely needed a rubber band around her sewing machine I will say though putting the rubber band there there now Did allow me to go faster and sometimes I like to sew fast Sometimes I just need to get something done really quickly But still accurately and I feel like the rubber band helped a lot with that Like a lot a lot. I also feel like if you're doing something like a hem where you've got a Layer folded under and then fold it under again to make a hem and you're you're sewing on top of your fabric And you can't see all those other layers, but you know you measured them So, you know, there are a certain width from the fold of your fabric This trick will help you make sure that you are catching that hem every single time You know I'm saying so I do feel like there are some definite pros for beginners absolutely every beginner should have a rubber band on their sewing machine and For those advanced those of us that are advanced so it's I feel like there's a lot of advantages too So two thumbs up for the rubber band trick and I say it's a treat and it works Okay, so tomorrow's video We are going to be doing a trick that will help us We're supposed to help us gather fabrics more evenly more easily and Just better than the usual Task of sewing the two basting stitches and pulling them through and hoping you don't break one and trying to get them All even and yada yada yada. So tomorrow's trick is going to be for gathering a theme whether it be a skirt or a ruffle or whatever So stay tuned for that if you want to see any of the videos That I've already gone live from this week check the description box I'm going to be putting all the videos there at the end of the week Every video will have a link where you can jump around throughout the series or reference back to it Anytime that you need so until tomorrow. I will see you all very soon like tomorrow