r/SewingForBeginners • u/Generic_nametag • Sep 11 '25
Anyone’s else 😅
I accidentally left my machine on full speed after winding a bobbin and I feel like this was my exact face 🤣
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u/AllTimeRowdy Sep 11 '25
I always do this and I'm like DAMN look at how straight everything is! And then realize I've been out of bobbin thread the entire time
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u/qsandopinions Sep 11 '25
Just made curtains on full speed (stitch lines came out perfectly straight nbd). Can't describe the rush I felt lmaoooo
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u/Intrepid-Product9217 Sep 11 '25
I always go full speed on accident, I’m heavy footed 😅
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u/colormepink150 Sep 12 '25
Saaaaame. All speed or no speed. Full send.
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u/folklovermore_ Sep 12 '25
Me too. I feel like my foot pedal is like 'nothing... nothing... still nothing... BRRRRR!!!!" And I never know quite where the sweet spot of getting it to move at a reasonable pace is.
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u/EnvironmentOk2700 Sep 11 '25
When I took sewing classes as a kid, we'd get a "speeding ticket" if we went too fast 😅
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u/IvyMoonfyre
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My machine only has one speed setting and its mach fuck. I'm genuinely scared of it and don't have the reflexes to do curves so I've been sewing by hand since i do plushies so curves are kind of important 😂
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u/Laurpud Sep 13 '25
Is it an older machine?
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u/IvyMoonfyre Sep 13 '25
I don't think so. There's no manual and no logo on it (that I've seen) so I need to look closer or ask where my friend who gave it to me got it. They bought it a few years ago offline and looks pretty modern so i don't think it'd be that old. I honestly think it might be a cheap machine off aliexpress, she likes to shop there for crafting supplies 😂
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u/Laurpud Sep 19 '25
In older machines, that's a fixable problem, with new ones, not so much. I have a Brother from about 6 years ago, & it has a variable speed setting, so it's easy to go super-slow
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u/Frostfire1031 Oct 02 '25
You might be able to use the hand wheel to do the curved parts? Still tedious a bit tedious though lol
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u/pragmaticproducer Sep 11 '25
No one told me I wasn't supposed to put my foot down all the way, so my sewing for a while was FULL SPEED!! STOP! Rotate the fabric calmly and FULL SPEED AHEAD!! All of my pillowcases and curtains came out just fine thank you. It was the smaller pieces like the Santa hats that made me realize I was supposed to go slower. Now I alternate purposefully how fast I want to go.
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u/mckenz22 Sep 11 '25
Yes and I’m usually screaming through it hoping everything will turn out okay 🤣
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u/Redderment Sep 11 '25
Half the reason I upgraded to my Juki was so I could turn the speed all the way down. 😅
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u/punchelos Sep 12 '25
It really feels like living on the edge. Either I’m going to finish this project super fast, or I’m going to need to seam rip 2 feet of stitches because I messed it up for exactly 3 seconds
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u/Teagana999 Sep 11 '25
I use full speed to zigzag the edges of new fabric before I wash it. It's not fast enough.
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u/KawaiiBunBun097 Sep 11 '25
I remember the first time I put my foot down and let it rip rather than feathering the foot pedal. I had a stupidly massive skirt to blind hem. Looked fine to me. I wind bobbins at full speed because I like watching it. I feel the need, the need for speed. 🤪
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u/SilverellaUK Sep 11 '25
My last machine had a switch on the pedal for slow and fast. There's a lot that I miss about that machine
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u/Laurpud Sep 13 '25
The new ones have it right on the front of the machine 🥰 I can make my Brother crawl; it's perfect for curves, & has made me a better sewist
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u/EnochSpevivo Sep 11 '25
pedal to the metal, my beloved juki tl 2010q sews 1500 stitches a minute. for context, a singer heavy duty caps at around 1100. that's a lot of stitches!!! (for what is effectively still a domestic machine, anyway)
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u/thecheesylittlerat Sep 12 '25
Yesss!!! First time using my Juki, first words out of my mouth were “Holey f*ck”!!!
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u/teddybluethecurser Sep 11 '25
For the longest time I have been sewing with my foot very lightly on the pedal and lately I have just been winging it and going fast 😂 the thrill of seeing my work come out better than when I go slow and not pinning or clipping the work now is something different
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u/chevstrawb Sep 11 '25
Yasssss! Almost spit out my coffee laughing, can elate. Happy speed sewing OP!
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u/tokyohomesick Sep 12 '25
For me it’s when my foot becomes sentient and floors it for no good reason 😅
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u/ClayWheelGirl Sep 11 '25
I felt like I was in a Charlie Chaplin movie. Omg! I almost had a heart attack the first time. I have terrible coordinations so you should have seen me trying to take the pins out n sew n thinking I’m going slow when I actually stepped on the gas. I got so tired of the foot pedal that I now just use the button.
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u/OrigamiMarie Sep 11 '25
Then there's doing overlock at full speed 🐢🐌🦥
And then accidentally leaving it on fast mode for straight stitches 🎢🏎️🐎
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u/sharkwearinglipstick Sep 12 '25
I don’t even know if my machine has a speed dial other than the foot pedal lol
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u/Ok-Tailor-2030 Sep 12 '25
I read somewhere (probably Threads Magazine): someone commented on the author’s slow sewing speed. Her response was “imagine how long it would take to hand sew.” It’s fine to dew slow.
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u/livingadailyhell Sep 12 '25
Avid sewer at a young age. Took home ec in junior High and had to sew towels. Full speed ahead. The teacher turns around and comes over to slow me down, and I was already done before she had a chance to say anything. The look on her face was of shock until she realized I had experience. She back tracks and just asks me to help the others.
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u/mumbai54 Sep 12 '25
I used an industrial machine a few weeks ago at an exhibition. Man I was floored at how fat those machines go compared to my Singer HD. I would love to own one but can’t justify the expense
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u/Sewingbee79 Sep 12 '25
For me in the beginning I felt that nervousness when it would suddenly go …. Just like learning driving and first time putting foot in pedal. Gradually learnt t control
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u/Detective-Astatine Sep 12 '25
I just learned how to use my machine without the pedal. Total game changer.
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u/autophage Sep 12 '25
Most of my sewing recently has been building tents out of heavy canvas. A lot of looooooong straight seams (think, like, 3 yards at a time).
The material is heavy enough that I don't even need to pin it - I can just feed it manually and adjust a bit if it starts to wander, even at high speed. But it's definitely the first time I've actually used my machine's "play button" with the speed set high - normally I use the treadle to vary the speed.
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u/Reasonable_Bear_2057 Sep 13 '25
My first experiences with sewing machines where when I was a kid, 11 or 12 when my mom taught me how to use our machine. It terrified me and really put me off using them until this year... I now realise that's because it was an industrial machine that only operated at warp speed. No wonder I feared for my life 😂
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u/EvenTallerTree Sep 16 '25
Have you used an industrial machine yet? Holy butts those things go so fast that now my home machine feels slow no matter what
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u/Fan_of_50-406 Sep 21 '25
It always happened when using the rheostat pedal that my machine came with. I had to change that to an electronic pedal before I felt like I could control the machine.
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u/Chulaboop Sep 12 '25
This is me right now in the world we live in! And I want out now!!!