A quick way to make a thread looper
I’ve made thread loopers in the traditional way by hand. But usually when I get to the stage of making the looper it means I’ve nearly finished whatever I’m making and I want a quicker way to do it. That’s when the machine stitched looper comes in. I also find it stronger than the more conventional way. Here’s a hand stitched one I made when I attended the GBSB Sewing With Silk class. This was the first hand stitched one I’d ever done and wasn’t too neat and also a bit too big. My next attempt was much neater, but just as time consuming: When I made my recent colour blocked dress I went back to my favourite lazy way and used the machine and had it done in about 2 minutes! Here’s how….. Take a long length of matching (or contrasting!) thread and fold it in half, then twice more so you will have 8 strands of thread: Set your machine to the widest zig zag stitch. The stitch length doesn’t matter as you’ll be pulling …
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