Pinning, tacking and using a sewing machine:

When sewing my practice wall hanging I quickly found out how little I knew about sewing and sewing machines, I found the machines hard to navigate and I never knew what to do when something went wrong. To try and improve as much as I could with the short amount of time that I had left on this project I decided to take a short sewing course, during this course I was taught about the different features on the machine, how to choose the right stitch, different techniques and how to reverse stitch to make sure my work doesn't fall apart. I found this course incredibly helpful and even ended up buying a sewing machine while I was there for me to use at home. 

During my practice sewing I made the mistake of not pinning or tacking any of my fabric together and not taking any measurements of where the stithies would go. As a result, I ended up with an incredibly messy and unfinished wall hanging. The seams were coming apart and none of the edges matched up with each other. Learning from this, I made sure to be more accurate with my sewing this time around and measured each seam carefully. I then pinned the material together and tacked it with a different colour thread to make sure the material didn't move about. this made it much easier when feeding it though the machine and kept the material fairly neat and tidy. 

The process of actually sewing was fairly quick and easy, sometimes the machine would jam and I would need to turnip off, lift the needle and foot and gently dislodge the fabric and Strat again. the most difficult part for me to do was the lower bobbin, it would take me a few tries every time but I eventually got the hang of it

During the sewing I accidentally sewed one of my panels on backwards and added the loop too early, I then had to unpick these thread which luckily didn't take as long as I thought it would but I made sure to be careful and double check what I was sewing from then on.