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SEWING MACHINES FOR BEGINNERS (and more advanced students!)
by Helen Howes NEW SERIES: PART 7 - One Extraordinarily Useful Tool - the Stilletto
Now, no matter how sophisticated your machine, and however much time you have spent in front of it, sometimes you just need a helping hand. I use these little pointy-tools all the time - the one on the right is my go-to whenever I have a seam allowance that needs persuading, a thread to pull up, or an annoying student to poke... The middle one is a hat pin. And the one on the left is a tapestry tool which fits on a finger - quite ingenious.
If you cannot bear the thought of metal so close to your needle (and, yes, it takes practice) then use a bamboo kebab stick - this is cheap, will not break your machine, and is long enough to keep your fingers safe... At one time these useful gadgets were part of every machine's tool-kit, along with good screwdrivers.. They should come back.
Happy sewing!
HH
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