Prerequisite: Setting Up Your Sewing Machine

What you’ll learn in this tutorial:

• Positioning and starting sew
• Sewing down, turning, turning again
• Finishing stitch, cutting

We’ll start off sewing by making a pocket.

Backstitching

1. Every time you ever start or stop sewing, you will always make a backstitch.
2. Get two pieces of fabric that are the same size and line them up.
3. Position the fabric so that the needle is in the top corner of it, but there is a little fabric, seam allowance, both above and to the side.
4. Using the lever above and behind the needle, the foot presser lever, see m lower the presser foot.
5. Using the wheel to the right of the machine see h or the auto lower button see a, lower the needle down.

1. Very Important! Keep your fingers away from the needle! Try to have your fingers not over the metal plate at any time. You will need to keep shifting your hand down while you sew.
2. We’re now going to perform a technique called “backstitching” to anchor our thread in place so that it doesn’t fall out.
1. Make sure the speed dial is all the way down see d.

2. During steps c and d, hold down the fabric so that it stays straight.
3. Press the foot pedal down until you make 3-5 stitches and then take your foot off to stop
4. Hold down the reverse button see f and then press on the foot pedal. This will make a stitch in the reverse direction. Make the same number of stitches backwards as you just did forwards.

5. Release the reverse button and press on the foot pedal so you make the same number of stitches again so that you are now at new fabric.
6. Congratulations, you just made a backstitch which will secure the thread.

Sewing the pocket together

1. Hold down the foot pedal and continue sewing down until we reach the end of the fabric.

1. Now that we've reached the end, we want to turn the fabric.
1. Raise the foot presser using the foot presser lever see m.
2. Rotate the fabric 90 degrees so that now the needle is in the top corner of the fabric.
3. Lower the foot presser using the foot presser lever.

1. Repeat steps 1 and 3 until you have sewed 3 sides together.

1. Make another backstitch to secure the thread in place.
2. Press the auto cut button see b at the top of the sewing machine to cut off the thread.

3. Raise the needle and the presser foot and take out your pocket!

Congratulations, You just made your very own pocket!

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