Sewing

The book I read to research this post was Sewing for Dummies by Jan Maresh Saunders which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. There's 3 ways to do sewing one is by hand another is by sewing machine & the other is with an overlocking sewing or serger. A sewing machine will use one or 2 threads & the material will be fed through by hand, a serger will use 3 or 4 threads & the material will be fed through automatically. A serger will give a professional finish to things like buttons but can only be used for certain jobs. A sewing machine can be used for sewing anything. A serger is also quite a lot more expensive than a sewing machine. Some high end sewing machines use a pattern card to specify to the machine what stitching to use. Many people use patterns when making things. Sometimes the pattern just contains instructions if they are making something quite variable like cushions for a sofa. Sometimes the pattern is made from a kind of tissue paper & other times it's made from a good quality paper. If you have to make marks on the material you should use either an air soluble or water soluble marker either way you can wet it to remove it. If you are doing pleating you will work out where the folds need to be & use a marker to mark it then sew it across the top to maintain the positions.