If you too have one of these lying idle forgotten some where then this may just get you hunting for it. I had real fun with it. It has it's limits and does make you think that you would like to do this on a grown up sewing machine but at a crop and for portability I loved it. I forgot my instructions so I used the white thread only but I think it worked for the things I did. I found only a couple of draw backs. The main one was the fact you are limited how far into a piece of card you can work so you have to think about it when you are designing your project. The second is that it stitches a little chain stitch which means that when you stop sewing if you are not careful you can unravel things. Once I got the hang of that I was ok and I made sure to add a bit of glue to the finishing threads at the back of the card to keep them in place.........and final point for a little machine it is quite noisy as the girls at the crop will attest to!!
I will post a couple of projects I made with the tiny sewing machine over the next couple of days. Here is a card I made and I sewed a random wiggly machine stitch border to frame my card and over a couple of squares of paper that I attached as a design element. I would have liked to stitch my flower motif but that is how I discovered the limit to the machines reach. I think the hand stitching with embroidery thread worked though and probably draws the right amount of attention to the flower detail of the card.
I was quite pleased with this simple card design and have another card and layout almost finished so watch this space. I might even read the instructions to change the colour of the thread! Hope you are having a lovely weekend - I am off to sit in the sun for a while ;-)
Oh wow I love this Helen. I was looking to get a wee machine for cards a while ago but couldn't find one with a good review that seemed remotely suitable to stitch on card. I like the size of this too as my space is so limited. Where did you find this one? If you can remember ;)
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