My husband just ordered the Juki MC 1500 for me! And now I’m venturing into sewing knits that will look professional! My new machine and your Coverstitch book both will arrive on Friday! So excited! Thank you for cheering us on with your informative and enthusiastic vlog!
NORMALLY I DON'T BUY HOW TO BOOKS BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE SO SWEET AND THOROUGH AND MY COVERSTITCH MACHINE WILL BE HERE ON TUESDAY....I'M LEAVING THIS VIDEO TO PURCHASE 💚 FROM PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA
I've had my cover stitch machine for a few years, always terrified to use it. I bit the bullet today and went through the somewhat lacking manual and learned how to thread and do the basics. Came here to get help with techniques and find you! Just ordered your book. Based on all the great reviews, I'm very excited to read it and get really awesome results. Thanks in advance!
I have a Janome 2000CPX and I’ve used it to top stitch jeans. It worked beautifully on most of the seams. It was a lightweight denim but I finished the seams easily. But, I recently bought a hand cranked Gritzner vintage machine which I plan to use for top stitching on the really thick seams. It does sew easily through layers I wouldn’t dare to put through my coverstitch machine. And I will be ordering your book! Can’t wait!!!
That's so good to hear that you got your Janome to work with jeans. And having one of those vintage power machines sounds awesome, sometimes we need those strong workhorses in these times of rather delicate regular sewing machines!
Hi Johanna, I very recently found your channel and big thank you! Just got your books on Coverstitch and activewear, tons of very helpful information. Just wanted to let you know that what you do is very much appreciated! Great stuff and presented very clearly!
I love your book! It reminded me of things of things I has forgotten and taught me things I did not know. I have already recommended it to several friends. Love you Johanna.
I'm sorry I missed your live broadcast. Of course, we would get our book. You help us sooo much with our cover stitch machines. Congrats and thank you sooo much. From the USA.
I will be watching this during lunch hour at work, even though I don't have a coverstitch machine. I am amazed that you found time to write a book. Maybe your secret is you never sleep. I hope not, though!
I feel very flattered being your lunch hour companion! Sleep has been fine, but I've had to sacrifice other things, like some social time and just good old mindless resting. So I'm scaling back now for a while since I want to have the energy to write another book in the future!
Great followup video to your book Johanna!! I have been waiting on this book! (I will be purchasing it soon!!) I am definitely looking forward to applying some of your decorative techniques too. I currently use my cover stitch machine for hemming and for making decorative tees for the hubby. Just in this video alone I learned so much I’m excited to try...so getting the book is a necessity for me!! Thank you for all you do!
Thank you Myra! Yes the possibilities are quite endless, which is so exciting since most of us probably just imagined ourselves hemming knits when we first bought the machine.
I have the huskylock s21... so far really like it and bought it used for the coverstitch as I have an older serger too... some have mixed reviews on it but I think it’s just a learning curve of cover stitching....great overview and congrats on your book
Thank you Carol, my aim with the book is to make coverstitching a non-intimidating thing, because I know we are a lot of people out there who has had some fears around this machine!
I bought a juki coverstitch and really like it. I tried using the chain stitch to stitch seams of a chunky knit top and I'm very happy with the results. I'm now considering using the chain stitch to stitch the seams of a stretch woven with lycra (the samples are looking good so far). Has anyone else done this?
I bought your jeans book a few months ago and thought it was amazing. Today your coverstitch book arrived and I can already see it's going to be equally useful. I've recently had an unexpected windfall and am planning to buy a coverstitch machine. I'm in the UK and finding it difficult to find many dealers who sell these machines. I'm also somewhat bewildered about the lack of machines that have a free arm. Surely without a free arm sleeve hems and cuffs are very difficult to sew?
Hey Johanna 💓 You’re on full volume playing through Bose speakers and I’m still not hearing that great mind you I have the fan on too . Love my new Brother coverstitch it’s CV3550 and your book 📖 is invaluable so thank you 😊
Yes the volume was a bit low on some of my older videos due to me following the wrong instructions, since UA-cam lowers the volume after upload. But with my newer videos the volume is cranked on high 👍Thank you getting my book and your kind words about my work 😊
Your book Mastering the coverstich is my favorite book. Even read it sometimes before going to sleep. You are a great inspiration. I only have one question: must I also tie off the tread ends when chain stitching?
Hello for Brisbane, Australia. Just purchased your book as my coverstitch machine has been in the naughty corner and I would like to be friends with it.
Hi. Im waiting for the book and are really looking forward to getting it. I have a juki mcs1500 and i love it. I have had it for a few months now and have never had skipped stitches belive it or not. No problem sewing over joining seams even on jeans. I Love it, and comparing to my combination machine huskylock 21 it is like night and day!! Congratulations on your new book!!
Thank you! And excellent to hear another raving review of the Juki MCS 1500, it does seem like the best mid-price choice and I also hear you on having a sub-par combo machine, I used to be so stressed out whenever I had to coverstitch with my old combo!
Sorry I missed your live stream. I bought a janome 900cp, but I haven’t used it yet. I appreciate all your words of wisdom. I want to buy your book as soon as I can. I have to find where I can purchase it.
I hope my book will inspire you to give the Janome a whirl. Book Depository seem like a good bet when it comes to global shipping if you are not living in an Amazon country so to speak!
Hi, I’ve ordered the book from amazon. Im curious to know if the book contains information regarding how to use elastic thread (such as Dritz brand) in the coverstitch machine?
I've been looking into combo machines that do the top cover stitch, and the options seem to be the Janome 1200D, Elna 845 (looks like the same machine), and the pfaff 4874. Looks like the only one of those still made is the 1200D, and it costs a couple hundred more than an industrial 5-thread top coverstitch machine by e.g JACK or tysew. Managed to buy a used 4874. It can hold up to 10 spools and can coverstitch with up to all 10 spools with different numbers of top loopers, it's absolutely crazy
Hi The last stitch, I have a stand alone baby lock cover stitch, and am working on learning the professional finishes for garments. I am watching your live stream master coverstitch in youtube video from march 2019. At 53 mins in you are showing a feature along the shoulder seams and the neck line. This actually has an additional fabric that hides the seam. Do you describe how to do this technique? I am particularly keen to learn this, to hide the stitching on the back neck band.
You mention the one-step coverhem for elasticated swimsuit hems, are you able to explain how to do that? I have never been able to figur it out without overlocking the elastic on first, which ends up looking a mess underneath when using the narrow coverhem to topstitch.
I had a CV3550. Worst machine I ever had... very finicky. Every critics you have for your Janome, apply for the Brother. After 15 months of hell, I changed it for a Babylock. Cannot be happier. Threading is easy and I don’t have to spend a minute trying to figure out the good settings for my projects. It just works, e-v-e-r-y times, first time!
Thank you for your straight talk about the Brother! It's hearing stuff like this, plus my own experience while borrowing it that this machine needs some development before it can be fully recommended
I have been wanting to buy another coverstitch machine. I am considering the one you use. But idk. I have a juki dealer near me and I love my juki sewing machine. I broke my Husqvarna in December and it was so old the mechanic said he couldn't get parts for her anymore.
The Juki Coverstich has gotten a lot of positive reviews, so worth considering too. The main bonus of the Janome is the myriad of presser feet and attachments.
Interesting about the pfaff combo machine that can do top coverstitch, I’m either not googling the right things or it’s difficult to find machines that do it without finding and reading the manual.
I have a janome 1000cp since 2007 attachments adjustable seam guide, hem guide and a generic binder. Oh and centre guide foot which I use. Without the guide so I have a clear foot but that cannot be used with the binder .uk
Yay! Must be easier to do the time conversion with a 12 hour difference. Interesting to hear that you guys have daylight savings too. I'm really curious to see what happens if Europe decides to scrap it
I always laugh when people make pronunciation mistakes - not because I’m being nasty but it brings right into my mind the funny thing I say when trying to speak German. I used to say to the waiting staff in a café” I would like a toilet” because that seemed to be the thing to say. Everyone was always very nice but I think the way I said it was like “ I would like a cake” ie I was going to eat the toilet....
It's when you stich from the reverse side so that the looper thread stitch is seen on the right side of yjr garment, it's used for a decorative effect and looks especially good with a 3-needle stitch
My husband just ordered the Juki MC 1500 for me! And now I’m venturing into sewing knits that will look professional! My new machine and your Coverstitch book both will arrive on Friday! So excited! Thank you for cheering us on with your informative and enthusiastic vlog!
I ordered your books; jeans is already here and the next one, coverstitch is on the way. Thank you.😃👍🏻Greetings from 🇫🇮
Thanks, we call it an overlock machine. Thank you for all of your hard work.
NORMALLY I DON'T BUY HOW TO BOOKS BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE SO SWEET AND THOROUGH AND MY COVERSTITCH MACHINE WILL BE HERE ON TUESDAY....I'M LEAVING THIS VIDEO TO PURCHASE 💚 FROM PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA
Purchased a cover stitch machine and found this tutorial invaluable! Just purchased the book, thank you!
Happy to hear you found the video useful and thank you so much for getting my book 😊
I have all your books so excited about the cover stitch book! I’ve been following your channel and you are an inspiration! Thank you!
This is so very helpful! Thank you.
I just got the brother 2340CV cover stitch machine and I just bought your book! I can't wait to start using my machine!
yay, so excited for you, and thank you so much for getting my book as your guide!
I ordered your book on coverstitching and it arrived today! It’s beautifully photographed and designed. Thank you!
Thank you so much Celia!
I've had my cover stitch machine for a few years, always terrified to use it. I bit the bullet today and went through the somewhat lacking manual and learned how to thread and do the basics. Came here to get help with techniques and find you! Just ordered your book. Based on all the great reviews, I'm very excited to read it and get really awesome results. Thanks in advance!
I have a Janome 2000CPX and I’ve used it to top stitch jeans. It worked beautifully on most of the seams. It was a lightweight denim but I finished the seams easily. But, I recently bought a hand cranked Gritzner vintage machine which I plan to use for top stitching on the really thick seams. It does sew easily through layers I wouldn’t dare to put through my coverstitch machine. And I will be ordering your book! Can’t wait!!!
That's so good to hear that you got your Janome to work with jeans. And having one of those vintage power machines sounds awesome, sometimes we need those strong workhorses in these times of rather delicate regular sewing machines!
I'm about to buy a Coverstitch machine right now, you have helped me a lot, thank you!!
That's awesome to hear, thank you!
Hi Johanna, I very recently found your channel and big thank you! Just got your books on Coverstitch and activewear, tons of very helpful information. Just wanted to let you know that what you do is very much appreciated! Great stuff and presented very clearly!
Hi I have got your book and can now use my coverstitch machine .... so much information...I love it
Yay, that makes me super happy to hear. That was my goal writing this book!
I love your book! It reminded me of things of things I has forgotten and taught me things I did not know. I have already recommended it to several friends.
Love you Johanna.
Oh, thank you so much for your generous support!
I'm sorry I missed your live broadcast. Of course, we would get our book. You help us sooo much with our cover stitch machines. Congrats and thank you sooo much. From the USA.
Thank you so much! And happy that you wanted to catch the replay!
Eastern Standard Time, EST or Eastern Daylight Savings Time EDT. LOVE your videos. Ordering youur book today. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Congrats!!!! Love my Cover Stitch Machine
I will be watching this during lunch hour at work, even though I don't have a coverstitch machine. I am amazed that you found time to write a book. Maybe your secret is you never sleep. I hope not, though!
I feel very flattered being your lunch hour companion! Sleep has been fine, but I've had to sacrifice other things, like some social time and just good old mindless resting. So I'm scaling back now for a while since I want to have the energy to write another book in the future!
Great followup video to your book Johanna!! I have been waiting on this book! (I will be purchasing it soon!!) I am definitely looking forward to applying some of your decorative techniques too. I currently use my cover stitch machine for hemming and for making decorative tees for the hubby. Just in this video alone I learned so much I’m excited to try...so getting the book is a necessity for me!! Thank you for all you do!
Thank you Myra! Yes the possibilities are quite endless, which is so exciting since most of us probably just imagined ourselves hemming knits when we first bought the machine.
Wonderful book! Thanks so much for all your time and effort! Great work!
Thank you so much Joy, that makes me so glad to hear!
I am in the market to buy a CS machine and this video was quite informative. I will check out your book. You are an awesome teacher!
Thank you! That means a lot to hear. Good luck with your purchase!
I have the huskylock s21... so far really like it and bought it used for the coverstitch as I have an older serger too... some have mixed reviews on it but I think it’s just a learning curve of cover stitching....great overview and congrats on your book
Just purchased your book and I'm so excited for it to get here so I can start learning about my coverstitch machine that I am terrified of.
Thank you Carol, my aim with the book is to make coverstitching a non-intimidating thing, because I know we are a lot of people out there who has had some fears around this machine!
I bought a juki coverstitch and really like it. I tried using the chain stitch to stitch seams of a chunky knit top and I'm very happy with the results. I'm now considering using the chain stitch to stitch the seams of a stretch woven with lycra (the samples are looking good so far). Has anyone else done this?
I bought your jeans book a few months ago and thought it was amazing. Today your coverstitch book arrived and I can already see it's going to be equally useful. I've recently had an unexpected windfall and am planning to buy a coverstitch machine. I'm in the UK and finding it difficult to find many dealers who sell these machines. I'm also somewhat bewildered about the lack of machines that have a free arm. Surely without a free arm sleeve hems and cuffs are very difficult to sew?
Hey Johanna 💓 You’re on full volume playing through Bose speakers and I’m still not hearing that great mind you I have the fan on too .
Love my new Brother coverstitch it’s CV3550 and your book 📖 is invaluable so thank you 😊
Yes the volume was a bit low on some of my older videos due to me following the wrong instructions, since UA-cam lowers the volume after upload. But with my newer videos the volume is cranked on high 👍Thank you getting my book and your kind words about my work 😊
Your book Mastering the coverstich is my favorite book. Even read it sometimes before going to sleep. You are a great inspiration. I only have one question: must I also tie off the tread ends when chain stitching?
Love your book ❤️ thank you. I got the ebook but want the paper one also. Alaska
Hello for Brisbane, Australia. Just purchased your book as my coverstitch machine has been in the naughty corner and I would like to be friends with it.
Thank you! My book is pretty much written with that in mind 😊. I know there are many machines on the naughty corner and I'm here to help!
Hi. Im waiting for the book and are really looking forward to getting it. I have a juki mcs1500 and i love it. I have had it for a few months now and have never had skipped stitches belive it or not. No problem sewing over joining seams even on jeans. I Love it, and comparing to my combination machine huskylock 21 it is like night and day!! Congratulations on your new book!!
Thank you! And excellent to hear another raving review of the Juki MCS 1500, it does seem like the best mid-price choice and I also hear you on having a sub-par combo machine, I used to be so stressed out whenever I had to coverstitch with my old combo!
One would need an industrial coverstitch machine for all of these applications to be seamless and quick.
Sorry I missed your live stream. I bought a janome 900cp, but I haven’t used it yet. I appreciate all your words of wisdom. I want to buy your book as soon as I can. I have to find where I can purchase it.
I hope my book will inspire you to give the Janome a whirl. Book Depository seem like a good bet when it comes to global shipping if you are not living in an Amazon country so to speak!
Hi, I’ve ordered the book from amazon. Im curious to know if the book contains information regarding how to use elastic thread (such as Dritz brand) in the coverstitch machine?
I've been looking into combo machines that do the top cover stitch, and the options seem to be the Janome 1200D, Elna 845 (looks like the same machine), and the pfaff 4874. Looks like the only one of those still made is the 1200D, and it costs a couple hundred more than an industrial 5-thread top coverstitch machine by e.g JACK or tysew.
Managed to buy a used 4874. It can hold up to 10 spools and can coverstitch with up to all 10 spools with different numbers of top loopers, it's absolutely crazy
The bias tape maker is a great idea!
Hi The last stitch, I have a stand alone baby lock cover stitch, and am working on learning the professional finishes for garments. I am watching your live stream master coverstitch in youtube video from march 2019. At 53 mins in you are showing a feature along the shoulder seams and the neck line. This actually has an additional fabric that hides the seam. Do you describe how to do this technique? I am particularly keen to learn this, to hide the stitching on the back neck band.
You mention the one-step coverhem for elasticated swimsuit hems, are you able to explain how to do that? I have never been able to figur it out without overlocking the elastic on first, which ends up looking a mess underneath when using the narrow coverhem to topstitch.
I had a CV3550. Worst machine I ever had... very finicky. Every critics you have for your Janome, apply for the Brother. After 15 months of hell, I changed it for a Babylock. Cannot be happier. Threading is easy and I don’t have to spend a minute trying to figure out the good settings for my projects. It just works, e-v-e-r-y times, first time!
Thank you for your straight talk about the Brother! It's hearing stuff like this, plus my own experience while borrowing it that this machine needs some development before it can be fully recommended
Hey which babylock did you buy. I picked up the Ovation. LOVE IT
Dianna A I got the BCLS-02. It does only the coverstitch, no overlock.
That sounds like a industrial machine. Nice. My babylock does serger and coverstitch. It has been one year and still loving it. Cheers
Dianna A it’s not industrial... just very plain...😉
Definitely buying it!
Thank you!
Love your channel
Reading your CS book now ...just got a Janome 2000
Hello Hello - excited to be here.
Sorry I missed you live! I want to buy your books so bad!!!
Happy to hear you found the reply, this live was a blast! And I hope my book will be in your hands someday!
I have been wanting to buy another coverstitch machine. I am considering the one you use. But idk. I have a juki dealer near me and I love my juki sewing machine. I broke my Husqvarna in December and it was so old the mechanic said he couldn't get parts for her anymore.
The Juki Coverstich has gotten a lot of positive reviews, so worth considering too. The main bonus of the Janome is the myriad of presser feet and attachments.
Interesting about the pfaff combo machine that can do top coverstitch, I’m either not googling the right things or it’s difficult to find machines that do it without finding and reading the manual.
I have a janome 1000cp since 2007 attachments adjustable seam guide, hem guide and a generic binder. Oh and centre guide foot which I use. Without the guide so I have a clear foot but that cannot be used with the binder .uk
Just finished Daylights saving time, so now just 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Yay! Must be easier to do the time conversion with a 12 hour difference. Interesting to hear that you guys have daylight savings too. I'm really curious to see what happens if Europe decides to scrap it
You do beautifully speaking English !
Thank You !
🤩 📖 book congratulations 🥳 Johanna
Bernina/Bernette have beltloop attachments.
can you do shirring on a cover stitch machine, I have a Janome cover pro 3000
I put tour book in my shopping cart. Does it address skipped loops on the underneath side?
Yes! I share a lot of suggestions on how to solve this issue
@@Thelaststitch ok great. Thank you!!
Hi from North Bend, Washington
Hi from Doris in Australia
I always laugh when people make pronunciation mistakes - not because I’m being nasty but it brings right into my mind the funny thing I say when trying to speak German. I used to say to the waiting staff in a café” I would like a toilet” because that seemed to be the thing to say. Everyone was always very nice but I think the way I said it was like “ I would like a cake” ie I was going to eat the toilet....
What is reverse cover stitching? You mention it over and over again.
It's when you stich from the reverse side so that the looper thread stitch is seen on the right side of yjr garment, it's used for a decorative effect and looks especially good with a 3-needle stitch