Here is a fun video I made of my first time trying out the sewing machine.

So, I started off this journey having NOT A SINGLE CLUE how to use this machine. I told my coworker that I borrowed this machine from that she doesn’t need to set any of it up for me, that I am going to teach myself how to do that along with teaching myself to sew. So that is exactly what I did. I started by googling what to do and youtube took me the rest of the way.

First I started with getting the “bobbin ready”. took me honestly 5 minutes just to find where the bobbin was on the machine… yikes. Then I moved on how to thread the needle. Honestly, these videos were great! The videos were very step by step, which made it much easier than I thought it was going to be.

I then decided to try a few different types of stitches on a paper towel like the video had. It was lots of fun and now I just want to put a bunch of materials together. But I will continue to go along on track of my plan. I don’t want to do too much just yet. I am going to continue to play around with the machine.. and even try changing the color of the thread.

My goal for next week is to learn how to sew materials together so it looks solid and straight. I plan to practice doing this on different materials OR finding old clothes that need some patching up. (I can only imagine that my fiance has a pile building that he wants sewn LOL).