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  Tips for Making Clothes with A Sewing Machine At Home
  
  If you love to make cloth at home, these tips will be very helpful. In fact, they aren’t guides to master skills or become a pro, but must-know tips to make cloth with the highest productivity:
  
  1) Buy a good machine
  
  The very first tip in making cloth at home is that you have to have the best sewing machine for beginners making clothes. A strong, sturdy, and fast motor will help a lot. For home-use clothes making, we highly recommend the Singer brand which has it own a very good heavy duty lineup at a reasonable price. The SPM can rise up to 1,100 stitches and it is more than enough to handle even long pieces of fabric which is very useful for making clothes or curtains at home.
  
  Cut and make all pieces of your clothing project available
  
  2) Learn well, practice hard and prepare well before starting sewing anything
  
  Making cloth isn’t hard if you have all basic sewing knowledge and practice on your hand. Obviously, making cloth isn’t a task for such freshers who have to search for a lingo or a way of thread every five minutes of sewing. Learn and practice all these basic necessaries and be well-prepared your sewing space before starting anything. It is absolutely distracted if you have to stop the process to look for a piece of accessory, especially your mind is just coming up with a good idea,
  
  Make sure you have everything close by when you start sewing. It’s frustrating when you have
  
  3) Cut and make all pieces of your clothing project available
  
  Indeed, cutting every piece of your cloth project and making them ready before sewing is just part of the term “well-prepared” in the previous part. The reason we spare a separate part for it is to emphasize its importance. Making these pieces available before starting your project is not only speed up the process but also avoid a mess between the cutting and sewing tables. It makes the process lean and effective. It also gives yourselves an overview of what you gonna make, a good and clear idea to batch and sew things. You have everything ready by your side and you know deeply every task and step need to be followed. So, you just need to focus on sewing with such detailed plan on your mind. Nothing can distract you and your creative flow.
  
  To have more ideas in purchasing a good deal of sewing machine, just check up our article of How To Buy The Best Sewing Machine For Beginners At A Good Price.
  
  4) Create a concentrated space as much as possible
  
  When you have everything available for the project, now you will need a dedicated space where nothing can affect your working and concentration. Making cloth isn’t a quick task at all. It consumes you at least two to three hours (or even more) to stay focus on the project and it is better to be a kid-free time to go. Prepare yourself a dedicated room without kids, pets or anything could distract you from the work. The quiet spot will help in boosting up your creativeness.
  
  5) Read the manual carefully
  
  Along with understanding all the basic sewing knowledge, you also need to know well your machine. Every machine has its own differences and don’t you ever underestimate these differences in sewing, even if you are advanced in sewing. It won’t cause serious damage but be possible to disturb you while making cloth. So, our recommendation is only making cloth with a sewing machine that you are familiar with and if it is a new one, read the manual carefully and spend time to get know about it before making any cloth. All sewing machine comes with its manual or even DVD instruction to follow, watching it won’t take you a longer time than fixing things caused by the misunderstanding.
  
  Create a concentrated space as much as possible
  
  6) Never forget to take care of your machine
  
  Indeed, it is necessary no matter whatever your sewing purpose is. Even the best sewing machine for home will go wrong after a time of using. Therefore, always remember to clean up the dirt inside your machine frequently, especially after changing its bobbin thread. You also need to remove the thread (both the upper and lower) and start them all over again, as well as rethreading the machine frequently to give it a good cleaning routine. These little steps won’t take time but absolutely helpful in determining the productivity of your machine for the long run. Indeed, cleaning your machine frequently will help in solving 90% of causing troubles, so don’t miss it!
  
  Source: https://brooklynne.net/profiles/blogs/tips-for-making-clothes-with-a-sewing-machine-at-home