The Last Stitch | Avoid These Sewing Mistakes! What Every Sewing Machine Owner Needs to Know @Thelaststitch | Uploaded July 2018 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Learn how to use the best techniques, tools and notions for your sewing machine. Guide to best needles, how to thread the machine properly, which presser feet you really need, how to sew perfectly straight and how to avoid common sewing machine mistakes.

Products and tools mentioned in the video
Quilting guide bar
Example of a quilting guide bar (Amazon affiliate link)
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Edgestitch foot/stitch in the ditch foot
If your machine lacks one, get one ASAP!
A generic edgestitch foot that works on several brands (affiliate link)
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Good quality needles
I use the Schmetz/Euro-Notions universal needles
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I've heard that Organ's needles are really good too
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Get the best thread
I like Gütermann thread
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My top five tips for how to use a sewing machine
Only buy quality thread
Insert the needles all the up in the needle clamp
Thread the machine with the presser foot up
Use tools to help you sew straighter



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