#magpiesmiscellany

[hawkpartys]

JSYK I used your kippah tip to ID a Cooper Hawk this week :) I still need a solid view to tell hijab from kippah but since I have a lot of trouble with hawks it helped.

:D !!! WONDERFUL

[tj-crochets]

Hey, any suggestions for non dominant hand crafting? I just had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand and I'm tired and sore and antsy AF.

Since I'm a righty when I had my left hand surgery I taught myself to paint, but now I'm feeling like a bump on a log and don't yet have the concentration to read.

Hey! I am unfortunately possibly the worst person to answer this, because I did not realize until my friends pointed it out to me that I am ambidextrous, and that was only last year Maybe embroidery would work? Hopefully someone reading this will chime in with more suggestions, because I am drawing a blank

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[tj-crochets]

Hey, can I pick your brain about troubleshooting satin stitch? I'm working on some choly knight patterns and the applique bit is destroying me. I have notes of the sizes and tensions that worked well before for her patterns, but now my machine is casually going oops, not gonna do that and my lovely smooth satin stitch is randomly swapping to a looser half ass looking zig zag. I have an old machine (singer stylist 776, so like 70s era) but it gets more regular health checkups than me and is generally in better shape.

I've tried tweaking the tension, tweaking stitch size, swapping needles, swapping bobbin, changing the thread, rethreading just in case, cleaning under the plate with compressed air... I'm finding trouble shooting resources online for older and newer machines but not under vintage.

Hey! I've never machine satin stitched before, but hopefully someone reading this will chime in with some troubleshooting? Machine applique has always intimidated me so I hand applique pretty much all the appliques I do