A good iron trust me it makes your projects look so professional. Invest in press cloths silk organdy is great for your pricier fabrics but we will use cheesecloth same isle sewing notions. I love the glass head pins you can iron on them and they don't melt. The longer yellow pins for heavy projects are great. A cutting mat healing if possible and rotary cutter the smallest ( I need one of these but 45 mm works for me) poster board is great to help harden the underneath the cutting mat.
I will post a pattern for you a pressing ham and sleeve roll. I can also lead you to a thread holder that you can make yourself. I made my own dress form for about $25. You'll need a couple of thick rubber bands or you know those thick bands everyone wears around their wrist with the catchy sayings eg. WWJD tell you later bout this as I can only show you. Ruler, a French curve, also can post I hip curve you can print.
Always keep a stash of each size of elastic, couple sizes of zippers basic colors, buttons, hooks and eyes, hand sewing needles, that little thread kit you find at the registers, we will work our way through the interfacings and fabrics but keep a small stash of cotton for now. Match your threads to the cottons for now.
The different size machine needles you will most difinitely need these grab all of them one pack of each. I use either Janome for my own machine or Schmetz these seem to be universal to most brands of machines. A stiletto or the Purple Thang or cuticle pusher will do I use either of these to hold the fabric as it goes thru the machine. Some exta things that help in the sewing room. A piece of aluminum foil, a small piece of smooth wood, artists paintbrush.
I use the foil as like an extra way to heat fabric for appliqueing and crispier creases. The piece of wood I use as a clapper. And the paintbrush I use for dusting small particles around the machine.
I don't expect you to kill yourself with these purchases just things you'll pick up along the way. The basic sewing kit will work and you can add to it along the way. But I've tried to think of things I use from around the house like a spray bottle and startch and wax paper and freezer paper( you can use these to trace patterns or to print on from your home printer) cause you'll need these too lol.
Hope you guys that are beginners are stitching out your stitch books and having fun with them. Oh they can be on scraps of fabric cotton no bigger than 6x10 fold the ten inch in half so each page has five inches to sew each stitch. I know but aren't you feeling a bit better about your machine. Doesn't it sound nice as it purrs while you are stitching?
Trust me I wish I had someone to hold my hand as nervous as I was. We are gonna be making things real soon. You need to know your machine as if the thread tangles you will know what to do. Is why I have you read that manual and stitch the book. Patience Rome was not built in one day!
To all have a blessed evening Happy Sewing Loves
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