I am going to try a different needle and see if that means I can finish off these pants via machine rather than by hand. The elastic waist band is a pain in the butt by hand so I’d be happy if this worked lol.
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Finished the lounge pants! Wish I’d made them 1inch longer and with 2inch elastic. But life goes on. Im please with how the pockets turned out in particular. 
1/3 hand sewn, 2/3 machine.
The thread won the game of chicken lol. But only by a slim margin!
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Those look so cozy!
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Okay, I found this video:
His is so much prettier than mine 
It is a different model, but from the same series, and the bobbin setup looks the same and the manual says that I should be able just wind and go.
Will try and report back.
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HELL YES YOU DID, YOU CHAMPION! 
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THANK YOU
Now I’m trying to learn how to sew bias rape without a bias tape maker and my rotary cutter is MIA
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Oh noooooo here have my spare passes through the internet
I’ve finished Baby Quilt 1! That means I can start playing with making clothes now. I’ve got a few things on the list, but first is sweater dress using Megan Nielsen’s Briar shirt as a basis.
There’s a blog tutorial on it. I have mustard or olive fabric to make it from (and those colour names make me hungry…)
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You’re too kind 
I wish things worked that way!
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Did I already day this is a gorgeous coat? I’ll say it again. Gorgeous.
It’s made it clear that I need to add “waistcoat” to my list of items to sew.
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Oh my, if we could pass things through the internet and have a fun sewing library of tools and gadgets that would be awesome!
Also @Illathrael you are a much more patient individual than I. Making bias tape without the tape maker is hell to me. I burned my fingers so much before I realized they make a tool for that and now I use mine so much. I have a running joke on my company IG that if I don’t post a boomerang of me making bias tape, it didn’t really happen. It’s just so satisfying!
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Ok now I want a bias tape maker. My problem was there’s so many sizes to choose from! If I can work out my favourite 2 sizes I might get those.
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It’s possible that my MIL might have one! But otherwise…this mask pattern is requiring bias tape and by darn I will make it.
Yeah that’s what I’d do. I inherited one from my Mom-mom that was on the larger side, I think she used it for quilting and that was my gateway tape maker.
I use bias tape on all my necklines because I think it’s a cleaner finish and for those I use my trusty 5/8". I seem to always be able to eke out a good long 1.25" strip whenever I cut patterns so the bonus is that I get to more efficiently use the fabric
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The hack I used before was to not cut on the bias (esp if you have limited yardage) and instead cut in longer strips (makes up for the lack of stretch you get with a bias). Then I would sew RS together along one edge, turn & press WS together, then turn under the other edges, press and topstitch. that way I only had to do the fiddly pressing of one side rather than both. It works out to the same amount of work though I think. I just got tired of burning my hands so much.
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I noped out of making my own bias tape for masking by cutting strips of an t shirt and stretching them out for semi janky, but still perfectly functional ties.
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Totally works, and bonus for being softer on the ears!
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It “helps” that I have extremely limited energy for anything right now combined with high need for masks so finding something that would work with the least amount of effort possible was important.
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