Quick Tip Series: 5 Sewing Machine Maintenance Tips
Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity
Colette Media
4.9 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Your sewing machine is one of the most important sewing tools you own, and it's likely one of the biggest investments you've made in your sewing.
But a lot of times when you buy one, you're just handed it, and you're expected to know what to do with it.
Just like a car, it does need regular care and maintenance. In today’s episode, Sarai and Haley share five tips to care for your sewing machine.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sari. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Haley. |
| 0:06.5 | And this is Seamwork Radio. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy. |
| 0:18.0 | And if you missed last week's episode for the next few weeks, we're going to be sharing |
| 0:21.5 | quick episodes full of tips to answer your most burning sewing questions. And today, |
| 0:26.3 | we're talking about sewing machine maintenance. So we have five tips to better care for your |
| 0:31.9 | sewing machine. All right. Our icebreaker for today. Do you have any sewing machine bloopers, Haley? |
| 0:38.9 | I mean, sure. |
| 0:40.9 | I mean, outside of like, you know, the occasional catastrophic, like thread jam and broken |
| 0:47.6 | needles, which I feel like is like pretty, it's typical stuff. |
| 0:52.0 | The one that comes to mind isn't really like my blooper, but it's like, it's a pretty |
| 0:56.3 | major blooper. |
| 0:57.7 | So when I was in college, I was a lab technician at the sewing lab, which meant like I |
| 1:02.1 | just like maintenance the sewing machines. |
| 1:04.4 | I cleaned them. |
| 1:04.9 | I oil them. |
| 1:05.9 | I help people train them on them. |
| 1:08.5 | And there was this guy who was in my class and he also happened to be my |
| 1:14.6 | like arch nemesis. He like did not get along at all. And he was making something out of neoprene, |
| 1:23.3 | but he didn't know how to work with neoprene. So he was like going around and surging it. |
| 1:29.1 | It does not need to be surged. |
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