Meet my new friend Carolyn. She just posted her first blog post. Let's reach out to her and help her get a start in this thrilling and sweet blog world. Here is her link: Eight Golden Paws . She is a teacher and a budding artist. Please go and see her first blog post and giver some cheers! Yay! Go girl! Hugs. Lesley
The top handbag is my most recent piece of art. LOL. Sewing on "marine vinyl" is not for the weak hearted. I had to "google" every trick in the book. You need to understand some of the basics of Vinyl before you start a project. I'm telling you this because I started the project before I knew.....which is typical of all of my projects. First, let me just say that vinyl is sticky and does not like to feed forward. It sticks and refuses to move without feeding with your hand from the back side and pulling from the other hand from the inside. Plus, after much research.....I learned that you must get a teflon foot which helps to feed the material through. You can also tape your foot with scotch tape-but the teflon foot was like 3.00 and well worth it. You will also want to do some trials on some pieces of the fabric (vinyl) that you are going to use to test out the tension and stitch length. Apparently, the weight of your thread is important, and you wa...
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You are so sweet to send your friends my way! Thank you so much for your encouragement. I am so excited to now be a part of the blogging community!