Sewing Terms & Tools Review

The lines on the throat plate on which you guide the edge of your fabric while you sew

• Seam guide

• Back stitch

• Seam allowance

• Presser Foot

This tool is used for cutting paper or thread, NOT fabric

• Shears

• Scissors

• Seam ripper

• Hand wheel

This stitch is decorative and can also add strength to a seam

• Straight stitch

• Button hole

• Zigzag stitch

• Bobbin

This is the name of the reverse stitch function on the sewing machine. We use it when we start and finish sewing to reinforce our seam.

• Straight stitch

• Back stitch

• Zig zag stitch

• Seam guide

It rotates clockwise inside the bobbin case

• Spool pin

• Feed dogs

• Bobbin

• Hand wheel

This small tool is used to tear out stitches if you make a mistake when sewing

• Your teeth

• Shears

• Scissors

• Seam ripper

Holds the bobbin in place underneath the throat plate

• Spool pin

• Bobbin case

• Hand wheel

• Presser foot

To change the direction of the machine stitching by turning the fabric with the needle still in the fabric but the presser foot in the "up" position

• Zig zag stitch

• Hand sew

• Straight stitch

• Pivot

The amount of fabric from the line you are sewing (seam) to the edge of the fabric

• Seam guide

• Seam allowance

• Back stitch

• 1/4 inch

Two sets of little metal teeth that move your fabric through the machine

• Feed dogs

• Presser foot

• Hand wheel

• Bobbin case