Anyone only sew by hand?

[sunanthem]

Either because you just sew and arent a seamstress, or just because your machine is broken, or maybe you just like to?

[courtenay_e]

Nope. I would go out of my mind. Too slow, and there's too much in my house to be sewn! I would go to Salvation Army or garage/estate sales and find one that was quality for not much money, or ask for that kind of thing for Christmas. My aunt actually found one for me at a garage sale, along with it's cabinet, for $25. She refinished the cabinet, had the machine tuned up, and it's been a friend ever since.

[infraread]

I do! Because the sewing machine is out to get me.

I do patchwork by hand. Hemming & mending type stuff, curtains & simple things though excepting a skirt I made as a teenager, I haven't really done any clothes. I'd like too, but I haven't really been able to build up the nerve to tackle patterns.

[jerri]

I love my machine, but sometimes I like to do the handsewing. Some small projects are done by hand and some medium sized projects are started with machine and finished by hand.

[Miss Information]

I wish I was better at it, because I love working with my hands. I have done some simple hand sewn play foods for the kids. But it does take a long time. One of the things I wished was that my mother or grandmother had the skill of embroidery or knitting or crocheting to pass down, but alas, I'm the only one in my family that even owns a sewing machine and attempts anything hand sewn.

[jazzharmony]

My machine broke a few days ago and so I had to hand sew my son a full costume by this morning for a festival. This morning at 5am I was sewing away. My poor fingers were pricked quite a few times but it was good to know that I didn't HAVE to rely on my machine, yk?
Somehow I was able to fix it this afternoon and whipped up a jumper for my daughter in minutes. Love my machine.

[WC_hapamama]

Sometimes it's faster and easier to sew by hand than it is to fuss with the machine.

[marybethorama]

I do doll clothes by hand

the Barbie size and sometimes mending.

My machine can be temperamental sometimes and it's sometimes easier to sew by hand. It handles straight stitiching and zigzag fine but I find the it's very fussy about tension and sometimes it takes a few tries to get it right.

[PreggieUBA2C]

I sew by hand and I am just learning, actually. Also, I am too intimidated by the huge selection of machines to consider buying one for a while yet. Everyone says that it's best to know what I'll be using it for mostly before I choose, so I'm hand-sewing and hoping over time I'll have a better idea of what I want to sew.

Right now I'm sewing a hand puppet (an umbrella gulper eel, by request of course - the only one in the world) and I tackled that after an informative experience hand-sewing a leopard seal a few weeks ago.

I'm getting better and learning the strengths and uses of different stitches. I am also amazed at how much I remember from a single embroidery project in home-ec class in grade seven (about 18 yrs ago, I think). I'm learning from a book, but I haven't made any clothes yet, although I did make a wool mattress for ds3 last month too (I am amazed at how well it turned out- I think I'll make wool mattresses for all of us now!), and 3 very large floor cushions using the blanket stitch- simple but effective and also decorative; they turned out really lovely too! I don't even want to buy things anymore, but it does take so much time to do this that the list will pile up much faster than the available time to make them... A sewing machine might help with that .

[marybethorama]

I'm doing a big project by hand right now

I'm hemming a knit top (it's for me so it is pretty large ) and my sewing machine will not accept the fabric (a slinky knit). So I'm handsewing a narrow hem on the bottom and I'll do the neckline by hand.

Needless to say my stitching is getting really good I'm actually finding it relaxing. It's going to look really nice when it's done.