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You have to hem *everything* eventually. Hemming isn't optional. (If you don't hem your cloth, it will start to fray. There are exceptions to this, like felt, but most cloth will.)

The type of cloth you choose for your project matters very much. Your clothing won't "fall right" if it's not the kind of stretchy/heavy/stiff as the one the tutorial assumes you will use.

Some types of cloth are very chill about fraying, some are very much not. Linen doesn't really give a fuck as long as you don't, like, throw it into the washing machine unhemmed (see below), whereas brocade yearns for entropy so, so much.

On that note: if you get new cloth: 1. hem its borders (or use a ripple stitch) 2. throw it in the washing machine on the setting that you plan to wash it going forward 3. iron it. You'll regret it, if you don't do it. If you don't hem, it'll thread. If you don't wash beforehand, the finished piece might warp in the first wash. If you don't iron it, it won't be nice and flat and all of your measuring and sewing will be off.

Sewing's first virtue is diligence, followed closely by patience. Measure three times before cutting. Check the symmetry every once in a while. If you can't concentrate anymore, stop. Yes, even if you're almost done.

The order in which you sew your garment's parts matters very much. Stick to the plan, but think ahead.

You'll probably be fine if you sew something on wrong - you can undo it with a seam ripper (get a seam ripper, they're cheap!)

You can use chalk to draw and write on the cloth.

Pick something made out of rectangles for your first project.

I recommend making something out of linen as a beginner project. It's nearly indestructible, barely threads and folds very neatly.

Collars are going to suck.

The sewing machine can't hurt you (probably). There is a guard for a reason and while the needle is very scary at first, if you do it right, your hands will be away from it at least 5 cm at any given time. Also the spoils of learning machine sewing are not to be underestimated. You will be SO fast.

Fabric scissors/rotary cutters are a lifesaver. Trying to cut fabric with your normal kitchen scissors will result in crying. I've found that wallpaper scissors (really sharp and HUGE) are great for cutting straight lines and big pattern pieces.

When working on your sewing project, half of that time is (or should be) spent ironing and pressing your fabric and seams to get everything nice and neat and straight. This is the difference between homemade-looking clothes and garments that will look amazing, feel good on your skin and fall exactly how they should

Use the right needle for your fabric. You might think "ooh they're all sharp what can go wrong?" and you will end up with skipped stitches, breaking threads, and wobbly seams.

Give yourself room for error, especially when learning a new technique. Make mockups and redo the thing you wanna do. Accept that sometimes you'll have to make mistakes to learn, and that this is part of the hobby. (This is actually one of my favorite parts, trial and error :))

Problems with your sewing machine? Go through the checklist if you can't find where it's going wrong:

Rethread your top thread

Rethread your bobbin thread

(Check your manual to see if youve threaded correctly)

Check if your tension settings are correct

Check if your machine needs to be cleaned/de-fluffed (fluff often builds up in your bobbin compartment)

Are you using the right needle for your project/do you need to refresh your needle? Some people recommend switching to a new needle after every large project, I would say get a new one at least every three projects.

Are you using the right thread?

Are you using the right stitch/sewing foot for the stitch you're sewing with?

Check if your machine needs to be oiled.

If all else fails, ask people on reddit or ask a sewist you know if they can figure out how to solve your problem.

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1. Israel is not an occupied land bc jews ARE indigenous, you can't occupy a land if you are indigenous to it. So everything that comes in the answer after that is already irrelevant.

2. After the oslo agreements a whole ass antifada started- mainly suicide bombers, my dad almost died bc of one in jerusalem. The PLO were never peaceful and started a revolution in JORDAN which ended up with jordan kicking the majority of the palestinians to lebanon. And yall need to search up what the word "peaceful" means bc no i didn't see any peacefull ask from the palestinian side in any time in my life

3. Israel gave gaza full independence in 2005,they had elecrions in 2006 and the majority chose hamas kicking out the PA. Hamas is now a forceful tyranny leaders in gaza. They were deliberately chosen considering the hamas chart was written and published in 1988- 18 years before they won the elecrions

4. All the palestinian prisoners were literal terrorists and yes there are stories (which i know personally) where teenagers tried, and even succeded, in stabing someone

5. Under every definition of colonization israel is not a colonizer state- unlike the USA

6. Saying that jews being indigenous is "irrelevant" is like saying that native americans aren't indigenous anymore bc it has been occupied for hundreds of years. Or like saying that it doesn't matter palestinians live there bc there are now israelis who were born on this land while most of palestinians weren't born on the land for the past 50 years. Its stupid and makes no sense. Fucking hypocrites

7. The jews didn't have to convince shit, its THEIR land. There is no jewish country anywhere in the world unlike muslim and Christian countries and states that are literally the whole world. Its not a theft if its their heritage in the first place

8. Israel DID offer every peace agreement and every ceasefire that the palestinians broke over and over. In fact they were in a middle of ceasefire from 2021 until, unsurprisingly, hamas broke it with a brutal attack

no matter how much they try, media giants and coorperations can't hide what the masses think. i think my college blocked a donation site to palestine, tumblr is keeping related tags off trending, twitter is doing the same, google searches lead to misinformation and news outlets are cherry-picking, lying, or not reporting at all. world leaders vote and give money to end a people.

but even with they're power, they are few. citizens from all over the world are many. everywhere you look online, millions of people won't let you forget, won't let them forget. even if it's not right outside your window.

i just. i love the human spirit, human compassion and love in the face of human evil.

each night that gaza experiences is deadlier than the last, as idf soldiers record propaganda tiktoks, make rave parties and grwms and fit checks, gloat over having food and water, and film themselves deriving sadistic pleasure from torturing their hostages and victims and desecrating the dead.

Palestinians have to display their martyred before the camera for you to believe the atrocities that the zionist entity has subjected them to. they cannot even mourn in private. the apartheid entity murders them in cold blood, and you deliver the killing blow by doubting them.

babies whose families have been killed will never get to know their own name.

i can't reshare a tenth of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. i have seen more dead children in the past month than i have known death my entire life.

israeli settlers burn olive trees, bomb bakeries and fishing boats, shower white phosphorus and earthquake bombs on the captive civilians of gaza. you already know about the disastrous effects of white phosphorus, but earthquake bombs were last used during ww2 to wipe out entire cities.

how holy is the land that seeks to be built over the mass graves of thousands of children? is it holier than the miracle of a child being born in this hypocritical world?

all 11 universities in gaza have been bombed. academics should be agitating right now, especially those who call themselves "decolonial thinkers." destruction of universities is a sinisterly deliberate act to sabotage the Palestinians who will survive this great catastrophe.

the act of cleansing your hands before prayer is extremely important to muslims. no part of us can remotely comprehend the grief of the mother who refused to wash her hands from the blood of her children after losing them in a zionist airstrike over gaza. "I swear I won't wash them, I won't wash my hands, how else am I supposed to sleep near my kids."

it is only both moral and right when one side defends itself. the other side are the price of war, no better than insects and cattle and sheep left to die within the four walls of the slaughterhouse.

this situation should not be up for debate, but let me finish with one final thing : do your research about Palestine. HOWEVER. you do not need a degree in middle east studies to object to an ongoing genocide. if someone outwits you in a debate about historical details and every nuance of a subject, you were and will remain entirely correct in objecting to a genocide.

may those martyred rest in peace and be reunited again with their loved ones in heaven's eternal vastness.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

Why do you think popular media is so quick to discount boycotts as ineffective? Could it possibly be because they work? Could it be because major corporations understand that they work and are scared? Could it be because boycotts have historically been utilized by marginalized groups to assert their views and fight for change within a conflict in which they have no power?

It’s the 2nd most densely populated area in the entire world, 95% of water isn’t safe, they are only given 4 hours of electricity (imagine this with the population density and Mediterranean heat), medicine and basic foodstuffs like juice are embargoed. The average age in Gaza is 19 - the old and weak die quickly as their health care system cannot get supplies and doesn’t have stable electricity. More than half of youths under 18 expressed that they have no real desire to live and contemplate suicide regularly. 45% unemployment. Children get blown up playing soccer on the beach by advanced warships. It’s probably the most surveilled and spied upon place in the world. It’s a tiny strip of land 25 miles wide that is regularly subjected to bombing.

In 2018 mass peaceful demonstrations were organized, thousands and thousands of Palestinians marched along the border wall. Israel shot 2,000 of them with live ammunition, but only killed around 200 because they deliberately aim at legs to place even more strain on the depleted medical infrastructure and make an invalid that can’t contribute as well. 36,000 Palestinians were injured peacefully protesting.

Every year the IDF invades Al-Asqa mosque, gasses the worshippers and cracks heads open, and then they leave because there’s no point aside from violent harassment. And then there’s the constant news from other occupied areas of Palestinians being evicted, homes being bulldozed, the survivors fined and harassed. Palestinian olive trees, generational in their age, bulldozed by the occupiers.

Pictures of colonialists watching terrorism as entertainment accompany.