Hello - I am no seamstress but do own a machine for small mending jobs.
I am trying to get more years out of a favorite all nylon nightgown. I think I've hand hemmed it a dozen times, but it keeps coming apart in the washer. How can I machine sew it? Seems I read something once about using tissue paper between the fabric and the feeder? Use long or short stitches?
Or would something like Stitchwitchery bond that hem together for all eternity?
Thanks
I use this stuff:
Kate, Thanks for the link to this website! I just ordered the Ginger Snaps Christening dress gown pattern for boys. I have been looking for something boy-ish for a while now. I think this little gown will be a perfect addition to my pattern stash. Thanks again,
Liz W.
I hadn't looked at the rest of the site - it just came up with the search for the tape! :) Serendipity! :D Nice patterns...
The Wondertape works great BUT, that company makes a craft tape that at a glance looks exactly like the package of WonderTape. The package, size, colors, everything is the same except for one little word. Check carefully! On an emergency run to TSWLTH I grabbed what I thought was the sewing stuff and got the craft stuff instead.......not only did it gum up my needle, but gooied up my bobbin shuttle AND it turns into a gummy mess if you should happen to iron or get it wet...I tried to wash it out and it just got worse by the minute.....All the stuff sewing tape shouldn't do. Just a heads up hoping I save somebody else some grief. If you should happen to make this mistake just email me, I came up with such impressive creative additions to my vocabulary that my son stuck his head into my sewing room and suggested I take up golfing since I had about 75% of the game skills conquered!
Val
AKK! CHOKE! COFF COFF! Thanks for the warning! I've never seen the craft stuff, but I'll be wary from now on!
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