{"id":12183,"date":"2022-01-27T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/?p=12183"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:48:36","slug":"what-sewing-machines-do-we-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/what-sewing-machines-do-we-use\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sewing Machines Do We Use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions we get asked is &#8220;What sewing machine do you use?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We own two sewing machines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Bernina 930 Record from the 1980s<\/li>\n<li>A Singer 201K from the 1940s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the most part, we use the Bernina. It&#8217;s a very good domestic sewing machine and we really love it for bag making. Would it be easier to make bags on an industrial sewing machine? We&#8217;re sure it would be, and you could use thicker fabrics with ease. But these are the machines we currenlty have and we love to design our bags on a domestic machine so we can confidently tell our customers that our patterns are domestic machine friendly. If you&#8217;re a serious bag maker wanting to use heavy duty materials and have the circumstances to own an industrial machine then that&#8217;s awesome. We don&#8217;t know any bag makers who regret upgrading to an industrial machine.<\/p>\n<p>If, like us, you&#8217;re sewing on a domestic, you need to consider carefully what materials you&#8217;re using. Using materials that are unsuitable for your machine can end in a failed project, or even worse, it could damage your machine. It&#8217;s also important to use the correct needles, threads and tools to assist you. We created a short YouTube video covering our top tips for sewing bags on a domestic machine. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z4ipzzYqhDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions we get asked is &#8220;What sewing machine do you use?&#8221; We own two sewing machines: A Bernina 930 Record from the 1980s A Singer 201K from the 1940s For the most part, we use the Bernina. It&#8217;s a very good domestic sewing machine and we really love it for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrycowdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}