If I could sit down every single new sewist who wants to learn and improve their skills I would tell them the following things
Read the manual. Work through the manual from front to back. Read the troubleshooting section even when you're not having a problem. Read it. Keep it handy. Maybe download a PDF too, just in case the hard copy walks off.
Buy an iron and ironing board. They don't have to be fancy, a bigger board is only better if it is stable. An regular Ikea board has worked for me for years. A $20 iron from Walmart will noticeably improve your work. Press every seam before another seam intersects it. Don't just iron at the end.
Sewing machine needles have sizes AND types and you need to match them to your fabric. They also wear down. The often quoted rule is 8 hours of run time and its a pretty good rule.
The problem is almost never the tension settings, and even less often is it the bobbin tension. The problem is almost always your threading or needle.
Clean your machine. Do not use canned air. Take off the plate under the foot and use a brush and or a keyboard vacuum to get the fluff out.
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Block 4 complete! I slipped on the stairs and fell a few down onto a small landing--not to worry, my foot is really quite banged up and there will be bruises, but nothing is broken or seriously damaged, yay. I did sew the first four blocks together and got most of the embroidery on those seams done. Hopefully I can post a pic of that soon.
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high level ice hockey leagues that stream free on youtube
wanted to compile a list into a post for people to reference.
PWHL - Professional Women's Hockey League, top pro women's league in USA/Canada, streams free everywhere outside Canada (sorry, Canada) (Proton VPN is a great free option), 12 teams, November - May, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
SDHL - Swedish Women's Hockey League, top pro women's league, lotta players going back and forth between here and the PWHL, 10 teams, September - March, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
EWHL/AWHL* - European Women's Hockey League & Austrian Women's Hockey League, this is sorta two leagues intertwined. i need to research more to understand, but they both stream on this channel, don't ask me how many teams, MANY countries which is pretty cool,September - March, website (shared) - eliteprospects (EWHL / AWHL) - wikipedia (shared)
*for some reason it's not letting me link the channel, but going on youtube and searching either ewhl or awhl will get you there
AWIHL - Australian Women's Ice Hockey League, top Australian women's league, 6 teams, November - March, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
NZWIHL - New Zealand Women's Ice Hockey League, top women's Aotearoa hockey league, 4 teams, May - August, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
NZIHL - New Zealand Men's Ice Hockey League, top men's Aotearoa hockey league, 5 teams, May - August, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
Special Mention: the ЖХЛ/ZhHL, the Russian Women's Hockey League, used to stream free on youtube but hasn't the past couple years due to a youtube ban. You can still find their old game streams on the channel.
Note that some leagues are going to have streaming services outside youtube that they use, which may or may not be free and/or require a VPN, but in this post I wanted to focus on youtube since that's what most people are going to default to.
Also note that there are lots of other ways to watch hockey on youtube. There's country-specific youtube channels that stream multiple leagues and/or international matchups (Ukraine as an example), there are individual teams that host their own channels (multiple Federal Prospects Hockey League teams stream their own games), there's some random beer leagues that stream their own games (there's an Australian 4v4 league called the Kondos Ice Hockey League), FloHockey youtube channel has random free game streams from their collection of leagues, and lots of channels post whatever games from various leagues, including full NHL games. None of these are what I was focusing on in this post. Perhaps I can create a follow-up with further links to all of that, idk.
Let me know if there's any you've found that I can add here!
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I think little kid Shane Hollander cursed like a sailor. I think yuna didn’t have a great filter and Shane struggled to understand the social nuances of when it’s ok to swear so he’s walking into kindergarten with his big brown eyes and his freckles and his cute little striped shirt like “it’s fucking pouring outside ms bianco, god damn”
Yuna once got called to the preschool because Shane called one of his classmates a fucking hoser and she had to pretend she had no idea where he had heard that (she said it front of Shane about Boston’s new winger last night)
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when hockey players have hobbies outside hockey it's always like, pop songs on the acoustic guitar or the same video games they've been playing since juniors or cooking something slightly fancier than eggs. learn to knit for god's sake
ohhhh this is a post that allows me to talk about Jaques Plante, the knitting goalie!!
he's a HOFer so lots of people know about him obviously but still! if you don't know who he is:
he was a canadian goalie who played for 6 different NHL teams during his 20+ years in the league.
plante was the first NHL goaltender to wear a goaltender mask in regulation play on a regular basis!(!!!!!!!) he was made fun of for it and called scared (probably in a much less nice way) x
he did so many cool things during his career but the thing that's the most important because of the original post:
HE WAS A KNITTER!!
his mother taught him to knit and embroider and he did both as an adult. (he was also a painter!)
he knitted on trains going to games, in the locker room etc. he knitted his own undershirts, socks, toques & scarves and people for sure thought it was weird. he would always talk about it with pride though, he could apparently knit a pair of socks in a single day and a toque in 3,5 hours!
he used knitting as a form of relaxation but also because he said he couldn't find what he wanted in stores so he made it himself!
plante grew up very poor and was very careful with his money once he had it.
one of my fave quotes from him (about knitting) is this:
"a fellow has to have something to do when he's not tending the net."
