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. 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?

I have a button on the sewing machine – I press it and I have the laser – you can see the red line on top of the fabric. This line always stays in front of the needle while you are sewing and shows where you have to stitch. The light is bright enough that you can see it on any fabric. Is perfect piecing your thing? Do you want more accurate seams than your sewing machines needle plate markings are able to give? 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″.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?

In the middle, the seam is exactly ¼″ away from the drawn line. It’s an accurate ¼″ seam allowance. 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.Just drop themagnetic edge guide onto your machine cover plate and it will stay in place.It has a strong magnet and does not move easily. The magnet is very strong, it does not move when sewing even with hard heavyweight fabrics, and adjusts to any position on the metal throat plate of a sewing machine. 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. I would avoid a scant ¼″ if you’re sewing with flannel or other loosely woven fabric that might fray.

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. 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. 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.Fourth– You can easily stitch inner curves. For this place the narrow edge of the guide with curve down. My sewing machine seam guide attachment extends to a maximum width of around 2″. But there are longer seam guides available. 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. That’s what it looks like. It has two plastic pieces and a small square ruler with grid lines and small holes for a needle. Third– You can stitch outer curves. For this, you will have to place the narrow edge of the guide like this, with a curve up.

The magnetic SEAM guide is designed for smooth stitching at different distances from the fabric edge. 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. So, yes, Madam Sew is a legit company with some fun sewing products. I’d be careful about buying the presser foot set, though. You’re probably fine to get them if you have one of the cheaper Brother or Singer sewing machines, but you’ll need to get a presser foot adaptor if you have a Bernina machine.

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?