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This seam guide is easy to place and remove, but holds steady as a fabric guide. What about a straight-stitch machine where the needle doesn’t move? Second– you can easily stitch strips of fabric together. Look, you put the guides like this for example one to the right at ¼ in seam allowances, the other one to the left at the width of the strips. And stitch. Some people advise using a piece of elastic with sewn-together edges. It works about the same as the painter’s tape. And of course elastic is something you will use in other projects anyway, so you might as well buy it in bulk. In the end, I just have to cut between the stitching lines using my rotary cutter and I have two pieces like this. With this Seam Guide Ruler you can set your stitches accurately on any sewing machine. With the free Magnetic Seam Guide you can easily keep that exact distance when sewing.
Of course, for these purposeswe can use a sewing machine throat plate – it usually has some kind of a seam guide. Why would we need something else? See – there are 5/8″ seam allowances,⅜” seam allowances, etc. Even the bobbin case cover has some marks on it. My Janome machine has the marking in millimeters also. So all you have to do is to keep the fabric edges aligned with the markings. I guess you used this seam allowance guide on a sewing machine many times. You get an extra Magnetic Seam Guide with this ruler to make sure you keep that exact distance while sewing. You can just attach this little metal seam guide temporarily on most needle plates or metal sewing machines. The seam guide will not shift when you are sewing. My sewing machine seam guide attachment extends to a maximum width of around 2″. But there are longer seam guides available. I have tried to remember to press the seam allowance to one side. But this bulky seam fabric makes quilting extremely difficult, and painful if you are hand quilting. And a lot of long arm sewing machine quilters find that bulky seam causes irregular quilting stitches. So, I continue to press my seams open. I would avoid a scant ¼″ if you’re sewing with flannel or other loosely woven fabric that might fray.When the rotary cutter and rulers all but eliminated the inaccuracies that a pencil lead caused, the only thing that a piece quilter needed to learn was how the rotary cutter’s ruler is used, or placed on the fabric. The placement inaccuracies of the ruler dictates where the accurate 1/4 inch seam allowance line is. For this seam guide to work, you will need to find some stitching lines that are already on the fabric. Or you can use the edge of the fabric as the first line. There are many different types of seam guides. Some of them you even got together with your sewing machine. And others are pretty cheap to buy. Seam guide attachment from the sewing machine accessories In fact, it’s not really so easy and you may have a problem doing that, especially if you like to sew fast. In addition, this convenient device saves you time. You don’t need to mark stitching lines with markers or pins. You don’t need to rip seams that are not straight because they will be straight.
These inexpensive little gadgets will change your sewing and will really help keep stitching lines perfectly straight. They are essential items in your sewing room. Fourth– You can easily stitch inner curves. For this place the narrow edge of the guide with curve down. On the right you can see that the seam lies just slightly – maybe only a thread’s width – inside the ¼″ line. This, my friends, is a scant ¼″. Typically lining up the edge of your fabric with the right side of your presser foot is a good guide for keeping your seam allowance consistent. Some newer sewing machines come with a specific ¼″ quilter’s foot with a seam allowance marked by the edge of the presser foot being ¼″ away from the needle. The laser can help to sew zippers. Just align the laser with the zipper tape and stitch. DIY seam guidesFifth– you can use the guide for topstitching close to the edges or making ¼ in seam allowances. Place the guide like this: place the shaped edge on the side of the presser foot. The shaped edge accommodates the foot and you can easily stitch quite close to the fabric edge. Well, I partially answered this question in my previous tutorial “ How to sew straight” where I showed you what sewing machine presser feet to use for sewing straight. This laser seam guide is very useful for quilting. Let me show you how to stitch half-square triangles very fast using the laser guide. I am going to use my ¼ in seam allowances presser foot. Related tutorial: How to sew thin leather easily with a regular sewing machine Can you use a magnetic seam guide on a computerized sewing machine?
Place the magnetic sewing guide directly to the throat plate parallel to the presser foot, at a distance that depends on the desired width of seam allowances. For this, you can use markings on the sewing machine plate. Some sources say that it’s not recommended for computerized sewing machines because it’s magnetic. But I can assure you it can be used with modern computerized sewing machines ONLY if you place it correctly – you can put it ONLY on the metal throat plate of a sewing machine but don’t put it anywhere else – then the magnet can interfere with the computer components inside the machine. But there is no computer under the throat plate so this place is safe. If your machine does not have a dedicated ¼″ foot you will need to measure where the ¼″ seam lines up with your most common presser foot.With this device, it’s easy to control the width of the allowances when sewing on a sewing machine. This is how it looks, there is a strong magnet under the metal case. During sewing, run the edge of the fabric exactly along the magnetic seam guide and you can sew without fear that your stitching lines are not going to be straight.
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