My Man Card

[Mancat]

My sewing still sucks, but it works. I'm begining to wonder how much a yard of gutterman weighs.
Jason

Ditto. Though I am still trying to figure out how not being able to sew makes you less of a man.

[KerMegan]

Don't give up. You can cut a notch in the man card if you want.

My sewing still sucks, but it works. I'm begining to wonder how much a yard of gutterman weighs.
Jason

weigh a new spool of thread (A) and an empty spool (B); both in grams.
then (A-B)/100 is how many grams a yard weighs, unless you have the 500y spools, then divide by 500.
KM(who is feeling very literal this a.m....)

[Catavarie]

...I'm begining to wonder how much a yard of gutterman weighs.
Jason

weigh a new spool of thread (A) and an empty spool (B); both in grams.
then (A-B)/100 is how many grams a yard weighs, unless you have the 500y spools, then divide by 500.
KM(who is feeling very literal this a.m....)

Answer = Not enough for me to do that much work.

[GrizzlyAdams]

I went from sewing to injecting thread but now... now I impale textiles. Poorly.

impaling texiles. Now that's manly!

You shall here-forth be known as "Syb the Impaler"

[Ramblinrev]

I did miss this step when I did my We Don't Sew vids.... Your tongue has to slip between your teeth on the side of your mouth and droop at a 30* angle from horizontal. The longer the seam... the more length and droop you need to the tongue. There are times I look like one of those ugly dog winners.

[Jazilla]

I got a new machine last Christmas and its just sitting not, I did something to it. Went back to using my trusty 6 year old cheapo. I find the slower I go the better my lines get. My last two hammocks my mother said she was proud of me, I got a tear. I still get those nest and they really bite, especially when i take my time and got some really good lies going and I am almost finished with a 80" line and it just goes to crap.

[hippofeet]

Nests or multiple loops of thread stuck could be lack of top tension. Also if your thread is too large for the needle, it may not sit in the needle groove correctly, and it will hang up a loop at the bobbin. loading the bobbin, the thread should come off the bobbin away from the tensioning slit in the bobbin case. In other words, you would want the thread to turn 180 degrees, then go through the slit. Definitely don't give up. I am getting close to making my house payment every month from sewing, and I never imagined I would enjoy it as much as I do now.

[JohnSawyer]

Injecting a sleeping bag is tough to start with. You should find some easier material to play with. I took a sleeping bag and cut the zipper off, then grograin around the edge. It's quite a hack job, but I learned. Was ready to give up on the whole injecting thing. Then found other things to make with new material and found it easy. The more you do, the easier it gets.

+1 Sewing a sleeping bag is about the toughest thing I have done. It sucked...

• broken needle, check
• Tangles, check
• Uneven stitching, check
• Frustration, Check

I finally finished that job, but said never again...

Of course that was a THIN synthetic bag. Doing the same to my down bag was still difficult, but MUCH easier.

I found going really really slow was better. Needles get broken when you're trying to push the bag through the foot too hard... they bend, miss the hole, and break. It'd almost be easier to sew the darn thing by hand...

[sr1355]

+1 Sewing a sleeping bag is about the toughest thing I have done. It sucked...

My first run with the injector was converting a sleeping bag into a peapod.... What a nightmare, I got it done but it was not pretty or fun.... Working with new materials is way better experience for sure....

[Catavarie]

As a friendly reminder, if you thread and fabric are the same color people can't tell how straight or crooked your stitching is.