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Female: Hey! Happy New Year and welcome to thread heads, your weekly DIY fashion show that helps you re-vent and personalize your old clothing.
Male: 2008 is going to be a huge year for the thread banger. Just start with jazz move to Brooklyn, New York. We are going to be having a whole bunch of new shoes for you, lessons, interviews, going to events. It is going to be a little crazy.
Female: But, this week we are going back to the basics. Put your new year’s resolution by to start making your own clothing or to be a little bit greener about your clothing consumption.
You are going to need to know how to use a sewing machine.
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Female: This is your sewing machine. Well, not really but you get the point, first step, getting to know the parts.
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Female: And when plugged-in, the foot pedal controls the hand wheel when pressure is applied. Other important parts are the presser foot, the presser foot lever that makes it go up and down. The Stanching control mouth, the bobbin winder, threads pull holders, backstitch button, and the bobbin and bobbin case.
Now, you are ready to plug-in your power cord. Make sure the machine is turned off and plug in the foot pedal. Next, remove the bobbin from its case take off this puller thread and put it on the spool holder.
Take the end of the thread and following the diagram, pull it around the bobbin winding thread guide and through the hole in the bobbin.
Place the bobbin on the bobbin winder and click it to the ray. Now, pull out the hand wheel and turn on the power, but still holding on to the end of the thread apply pressure to the foot pedal until the bobbin is full.
Once it is full, it will automatically stop turning. Click the bobbin winder to the left, push the hand wheel back in and snip the bobbin free.
Place the bobbin back in its bobbin case and following the diagram, thread the race. Then take the end of the thread from your spool and thread it through the thread guide on your machine conveniently following the areas and numbers.
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Female: Use you machines threader to thread the needle front to back. Now you have to use the top thread to bring the bottom thread up to the hole in the needle plate by turning the hand wheel and holding the top thread in your left hand.
Once it catches the bottom thread, pull it up and out of the hole. Pull both threads under the presser foot into the back. Now, set your machine to your desired stitch while needle is still up, place some fabric under the presser foot and lower it.
Slowly apply pressure to the foot pedal and you are sewing. We really hope that helped some of you new sewers out there. But there is a lot we did not cover in this segment.
So, I invite all you experience sewers to send in video of your sewing machine expertise. And now, for some exciting news, we are giving away a brand new Janome Sewing machine to one lucky thread head. Just check our blog for the complete details and stick around for some more DIY goodness.
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Male: Hi. So we just got in to this whole DIY thing, and you are looking for some cool stuff on the web. Here is some thread bangers 2008 comprehensive guide to all things DIY.
First and foremost you got ETSY.com the online market place for all things craft. With almost over a million sellers, ETSY is expanding the hand made plane giving crafters and Fashionista’s new hope for making money in the DIY world.
Then there is Instructables.com that has a never-ending platter of tutorials and how to videos.
Same goes for EHOW.com. Ready-made magazine sites have a full library of every idea and tutorials that ever grace their pages, with tons of newer videos and awesome step by steps.
And talking about magazines, you cannot be the make see it and craft see it.com websites. Chop full of cool projects and inspiring ideas. If you are getting serious in this whole hand made thing, you can sign at the byhandmade.org and pledge not to buy anything but hand crafted goods.
And if you are looking for a crafter in your town that you just met well look no further than indiecraftshow.com for upcoming events through out the country.
Crafters.com has a bunch of great stuff along with cut and paste with features some pretty exciting lessons. Oh yes and then there is this little, psycho threadbanger.com you might want to check it out.
So there you go, all the potential information you need in order to take over the DIY world.
Female: Now all you have to do is go make something. And make sure to send us in your videos and pictures of whatever it is you made. And if you have a question, email us at threadbanger.com.
Male: You can also press out your and text thread to 30644.
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