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[berryfoxcreations]

Spring is here and that means the buzzy little friends are back! 🐝🐝🌺🌻🌼 You can get your own buzzy friend at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BerryFoxCreations

[tj-crochets]

Hi! I just started an etsy with a friend recently, and I have been selling my plushies! I was actually about to sell little bees (pride ones too haha!) and I wanted to ask how long it took you working with your machine to make patterns more consistent, also what fabric do you prefer (I work with felt but I want to branch out to softer fabric)? I recently got a machine, but it is new and I only know the single stitch, and my things look different every time. I love your stuff, it is super cute!

Hi! Great minds think alike lol pride bees are great I sewed for probably about three or four months by hand before I started working with a sewing machine, and then accidentally had the needle in backward in the machine so the thread was snapping every two inches I sewed for another like two or three weeks, but once I got that figured out patterns were pretty consistent? It helps that I started sewing on the sewing machine making masks, with a lot of straight lines being sewn on rectangles of fabric before I started sewing stuffed animals, because it helped me learn how to keep seam allowances consistent with a sewing machine. Those 2-3 weeks where I had the machine set up wrong were incredibly frustrating but once I learned how to make seam allowances consistent my sewing looks like the same every time.  As for fabric, I mostly use minky (aka cuddle fabric) but sometimes use fleece. I much prefer minky, but it is more expensive. I use the straight stitch set to stitch length 3 on all my plushies, because for what I make the seams aren’t supposed to have much stretch to them (and because that’s what my favorite pattern designer recommended and it works well).  Wait I just realized I don’t think I actually answered your question. By the time I started sewing on the machine, I had enough experience keeping the seam allowances regular that it didn’t take me any time at all to make patterns more consistent as long as I went slowly. It also helps that stretchy fabrics like minky and fleece are a lot more forgiving than felt; if a line of stitches is just slightly wobbly, once it’s stretched out with polyfill it won’t be visible at all.  Good luck learning the sewing machine! It takes some practice but is definitely worth it. One thing to keep in mind if you switch from felt to a different fabric is which direction the stretch is supposed to go in (I messed that up once and it Did Not Work with the stretch the wrong way lol)