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Tutorial: Freemotion stitching on a simple sewing machine

May 27, 2009 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

almaAlma Stoller bought a Janome Sew Mini to serve as her travel sewing machine. The good news: It’s light weight. The bad news: It sews only straight and zigzag stitches, and the feed dogs can’t be dropped. Ingenious Alma shows us how to alter an inexpensive sewing machine to allow freemotion embroidery such as the work shown here. See her tute.

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