Get to Know Your Coverstitch Machine
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Get to know your coverstitch machine with Julia Hincks, best selling author of 'The Coverstitch Technique Manual'
This is the ideal workshop for those who have a coverstitch machine but don’t know how to use it or those wishing to improve their skills and knowledge of the machine.
Those thinking about buying a coverstitch machine are also welcome so you can test one out for the day.
Places are limited to 6 people for this course to ensure you get the level of attention from the teacher you deserve.
You will learn how to:
- Thread, unthread and rethread your machine
- Adjust the tension dials to create a perfectly balanced stitch
- Use the stitching guidelines on the foot or needle plate
- Finish off the thread ends to stop unraveling
- Fix mistakes or unpick your stitching
- Adjust the stitch length
- Adjust the stitch with by removing or repositioning needles
- Adjust differential feed on your machine and discover the effects of this
- Adjust presser foot pressure
- Create simple seams and hems, including reverse coverstitching, flatlocking, working with bulky seams and working in the round
- For those with a combination coverstitch and overlocking machine you will also learn how to switch your machine from overlocking to coverstitching. (Please note – this workshops will not cover overlocking techniques for combination machines)
We will also discuss suitable needles and threads to use with your machine.
This is the ideal workshop for those who have a coverstitch machine but don’t know how to use it or those wishing to improve their skills and knowledge of the machine.
Those thinking about buying a coverstitch machine are also welcome so you can test one out for the day.
Places are limited to 6 people for this course to ensure you get the level of attention from the teacher you deserve.
You will learn how to:
- Thread, unthread and rethread your machine
- Adjust the tension dials to create a perfectly balanced stitch
- Use the stitching guidelines on the foot or needle plate
- Finish off the thread ends to stop unraveling
- Fix mistakes or unpick your stitching
- Adjust the stitch length
- Adjust the stitch with by removing or repositioning needles
- Adjust differential feed on your machine and discover the effects of this
- Adjust presser foot pressure
- Create simple seams and hems, including reverse coverstitching, flatlocking, working with bulky seams and working in the round
- For those with a combination coverstitch and overlocking machine you will also learn how to switch your machine from overlocking to coverstitching. (Please note – this workshops will not cover overlocking techniques for combination machines)
We will also discuss suitable needles and threads to use with your machine.
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