Would anyone be willing to mentor me as I teach myself to use a sewing machine?

[suwoo]

I am a bit crap, but understand the fundamentals. My nan who was a tailor always did any projects that I wanted but she is now 84 and not as able as she was.

I have 2 projects in mind, starting with pram strap pads, which are essentially a square with velcro sewn on and padded with wadding. Sounds easy, right?

I would love if someone would be able to answer any (inevitably) daft questions.

I don't even know how to thread the bloody thing yet!

Suwoo, you will be fine, there are lots of us here to help you. OK now give us a clue what sort of machine do you have? :)

It's an embarrassingly crap one, I got it cheap from EBay. Its by New Home and is Super Automatic 348. To make matters worse, I can't locate the instructions but know roughly where they are. It's still threaded though, which helps.

Still can't find the instructions. Will I be able to do anything without them? Where the bloody hell are they? Grrrrrr

Happy to help here too. Not familiar with your machine unfortunately but they all thread in a pretty similar way......ie off the spool of thread, through some sort of guide, "down, up" through the tensioners and down again into the needle, iykwim.........

OK - this is part of Janome's range, drop a note to their customer service and see if they will send you a PDF of the manual?

I had a look online, I think it is £8.50 for the manual, I need to look a bit bloody harder!