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GETTING STARTED

Prepare your sewing machine by attaching a freemotion (AKA darning) foot. Next, drop the feed dogs – the mechanism that grips and pulls fabric through your sewing machine. The manual should tell you how to do this, but there is usually a lever to pull at the back of the machine. Before you start, test your machine’s tension and check to see whether the bottom thread shows through using

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