Tension is the first thing almost everyone adjusts when a stitch looks wrong. It's the most visible dial on the machine, so it gets blamed ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. A sewing machine is a ...

Make Do And Mend - Your Guide To Looking After The Clothes You Already Own If you have hand sewing down, and know exactly how to fix up all of those little rips and lost buttons, then it may be time ...

We all have tension in our lives but we, as quilters and sewers, have a specialized kind - machine thread tension. In the September 2009 issue of "Machine Quilting Unlimited," Steven Anderson gives ...