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As you probably already know (but maybe not if you’re new to quilting): a ¼″ seam allowance is the gold-standard in quilting. All quilt patterns are written with a ¼″ seam allowance built into the cutting and piecing directions (unless otherwise noted.) The laser can help to sew zippers. Just align the laser with the zipper tape and stitch. DIY seam guides I would avoid a scant ¼″ if you’re sewing with flannel or other loosely woven fabric that might fray. 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.
In the end, I just have to cut between the stitching lines using my rotary cutter and I have two pieces like this.And what happens if you want to make straight lines on something big – like a quilt for example? You put it for stitching – and it covers the throat plate completely, and you don’t see its markings. In this case, you would definitely need a seam guide. 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. In my sewing machine manual, this seam guide is called Quilting barbut I guess there are other names for this tool. I was surprised to find this small metal bar among my sewing machine accessories and had to read the manual to see how to use this thing. But it was a long time ago and since then I have been using it quite often. 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.
There are 16 little holes in the MadamSew Seam Guide Ruler which are made to insert a sewing machine needle. Use these holes to measure your seam allowances accurately from ⅛” to 2” and set your stitch on your sewing machine. The fluorescent green color of this seam gauge makes it highly visible against all fabrics. Do you like to sew? What is the thing you struggle with the most?I asked my readers and by far the most common response was this – how to sew a straight line? How to keep a stitching line straight? 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.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. And from the large number of tools used to help sew straight, dedicated, or improvised, we can deduce how important this task is for someone who sews. Someone has said somewhere that nobody will notice if you are a genius, but everyone will notice if one of your buttons is missing; I guess it is equally true that everyone will notice if one of the seams of your garment is crooked!
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 But I don’t need to use the template always. If I need to make very wide seam allowances I just put the seam guide at the distance I want. But these seam guides have to be placed exactly parallel to the presser foot. So I make some marks on my sewing machine for easy placement. Why is this guide called 6-in-1? In the middle, the seam is exactly ¼″ away from the drawn line. It’s an accurate ¼″ seam allowance. 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.
My sewing machine seam guide attachment extends to a maximum width of around 2″. But there are longer seam guides available. 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″.
During sewing, run the edge of the fabric exactly along the seam guide and you will get a perfectly straight stitching line. Piecing with a Scant quarter-inch seam allowance can make a huge difference in the accuracy and appearance of your finished quilt. Here’s what it is and why it matters. 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. 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.
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The magnetic SEAM guide is designed for smooth stitching at different distances from 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. Is perfect piecing your thing? Do you want more accurate seams than your sewing machines needle plate markings are able to give?
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