I dont pin my sewing becuase I just want it to be sewn and I hate pinning

[TrinityRhino]

which is why I never sew anything as it doesn't work well unless you pin it

Are you machining? Put the pins in sideways.

oooh well that sounds like a plan

god I am so dense with anything like this

I have a very fave pair of jeans that are patterned and , with my best efforts, I have never been ab;e to find another pair of
Thay have a hole in the arse
I am going to sew a purple velvet star over hole........or at least I'm oing to ttry

thing is oth the jean material and the purple fake velvet looking stuff are stretchy

I'm scared to try
I was in a very bad place yesterday
so angry
I couldn't cope at all
I have awoken feeling so much better and want to do things but if they all go wrong I dont want to feel that anry again, it scared me

Sometimes tacking is better than pinning, but I second the pinning sideways, then you can machine over them. Bit scary the first time, but it does work.
My son's mil (Jan) is horrified when she sees me do it and she worked as a seamtress in a firm that made things for the Queen.
So that should stop me doing it, but it hasn't.
She is much better than me, so her work always turns out fab.

Pinning I don't mind too much but I hate tacking.

I prefer tacking to pinning as, even when pinning sideways, the pins seem sometimes to be pushed down into the innards of the machine and then the thread breaks.

(And I rather like tailor tacks as they make me think I'm an authentic seamstress rather than an amateur bodger.)

But tailor tack and tacking which you do to hold a seam together are two different things.

what on earth and tailor tacking and tacking??

If you don't like the pins you can thread your needle with a thread and make stitches about a cm long all along the two parts you want to join. Just in to the back and out to the front. When you have done your machine stitching you can just pull the tacking thread out.

Tailor tacks come into their own when you do a blouse for instance and you need to know where the darts are and exactly how pattern parts fit together

Pritt Stick it. It'll stay in place long enough to sew around it.

LOL at pritt stick! Actually though, wundaweb (the sticky iron-on stuff for ironing up hems) would work.

Ooh, ooh, Trinity - how about bondaweb? It's like wundaweb but comes in a big sheet. It's used for patchwork and particularly applique. Get some from a sewing shop. How about this:

1. (Machine) Zigzag roughly along your tear. No pinning - just sort of hold the two bits of the tear together, and run under the machine foot. Do it a few times for strength. You can use any colour thread because you're covering it up in a minute.

1. Get your bondaweb. Cut a piece exactly the same size as your star. Or, even better, draw a star big enough to cover your tear on the shiny side of the bondaweb. Cut it out. Get some nice fabric, and iron the bondaweb star onto the WRONG side of your fabric.

1. Cut out the star (you're cutting through bondaweb and fabric here, following your lines which you drew on the bondaweb). Peel the paper off the bondaweb. Iron the star onto the jeans, covering the (stitched) tear.

1. Now either zigzag around the star, or just straight stitch just inside the line. It's basically applique.

Any use? No pinning!