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Blythe Doll Dress Sewing Attempt, Almost!

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After finally getting organized, I managed to get my sewing machine out and on my sewing cabinet. I think it has been about two years or so since I even turned on my sewing machine, so that was the first thing I needed to check. Does it work?

I already had a doll dress cut and ready for sewing. This is from a free pattern on the Waffle Patterns web site. I am not going to do the applique part, but I do plan to line it with the blue fabric shown. It is so freakin’ tiny, yikes!

I turned on the machine, and yeah, we have power! But, before I risked messing up my first little Blythe doll dress, I decided to test it out. And, boy, I’m glad I did. Everything turns on, and I can get it to stitch, but the stitches are uneven, and my reverse button doesn’t work. Something is wrong with the tension. Ugh!



So, the Blythe doll dress is still on hold for a little while. I need to pull out the manual and check to see if this is something I can fix. I can tell that the machine is very stiff feeling, too. When I work the hand wheel, it’s very tight, and I don’t remember it feeling like that in the past. I’m really hoping it’s something I can do myself since, I’m pretty sure, there are no sewing machine repair places close to me. I don’t want to ship off my machine now that I finally have space to sew. I will keep you posted.

Author: Tammy

Welcome to the Crafty Princess Diaries, my weblog and site where I get to blab about my passion for crafts, primarily jewelry making, and my crafting career. My name is Tammy Powley, and I decided to call my blog the Crafty Princess Diaries because of this very dorky picture I have of myself and because my husband often refers to me as “the princess and the pea,” which is just another way to say that I tend to be particular sometimes. Along with this weblog, I have a number of jewelry making books published.

7 Comments

  1. Hi Tammy,

    That looks like a sewing tension problem from here. This article might be helpful.

    http://theartfulcrafter.com/blog/sewing-machine-one.html

    What a darling teeny pattern.

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  3. When I have those tension problems, the top thread has wrapped itself around something it shouldn’t, and upsets the balance. And if I haven’t used the machine for a while, I turn the stitch selector knobs around a couple of times. And oiling the machine can help.
    But what an adventure.

  4. Thank you, Joan. I will try that. Seems like a simple enough thing to do.

  5. Tammy how do I print the simple A-line dress for Blythe from Pinterest.
    Pinterest was the only place I found it and it is definitely the one you suggested but I am not good at printing out things. Maybe you could email it to me and I could save it to a file and then print it from my computer? Thank you so much I love your videos and you have inspired me to make my very first dress. Going to set up the sewing machine now. Cindy

    • I don’t know how to print anything from Pinterest, but if you click on the Waffle link in my post above, it brings you to an article showing the dress. In her article there, she has a direct link to download the pattern.

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