The Sew Much More Podcast: 30 Minutes With Workroom Tech
Sep 16, 2026 · 52 min · 13 segments
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If you had given me another week to think about it, which thank goodness you didn't, because I would have overthought about it over and over.
I learned so much in the beginning from people that it was, we've talked about this before, like a fire hose.
But I was in a local workroom meeting and I was watching and I was very, very new.
And Janelle Deck was doing a class on cushions, which in and of itself, that was a life-changing class because I had never made a cushion before.
And just the little things that she taught, the welt cord underneath and pivoting at the corners.
But when she went to change the bobbin, she just reached under the machine blindly, pulled out the bobbin case, put a new bobbin in and snapped it back in.
And I was like, what, what? What is she doing? I was taking my machine head, tilting it back, reaching under, changing it.
And so I watched her do that, and I'm pretty sure I said out loud, I didn't know you could do that.
And to this day, when not every single time, but I often when I'm changing a bobbin, I think, oh, my goodness, I'm so glad I learned this.
That's one thing with students that we get and students in all levels, you know, even more experienced people that didn't know they could wind bobbins while they were sewing.
Yeah, and I still hear it today when we've been at the slipcover summit or something where it's people are watching someone else at their machine.
And I think that sort of lends itself to how important in-person training is because things happen that had nothing to do with sewing a cushion.
So I am very, I'm grateful to Janelle for many things, but that was one of the biggest impacts early on for me.
If you had given me another week to think about it, which thank goodness you didn't, because I would have overthought about it over and over.
I learned so much in the beginning from people that it was, we've talked about this before, like a fire hose.
But I was in a local workroom meeting and I was watching and I was very, very new.
And Janelle Deck was doing a class on cushions, which in and of itself, that was a life-changing class because I had never made a cushion before.
And just the little things that she taught, the welt cord underneath and pivoting at the corners.
But when she went to change the bobbin, she just reached under the machine blindly, pulled out the bobbin case, put a new bobbin in and snapped it back in.
And I was like, what, what? What is she doing? I was taking my machine head, tilting it back, reaching under, changing it.
And so I watched her do that, and I'm pretty sure I said out loud, I didn't know you could do that.
And to this day, when not every single time, but I often when I'm changing a bobbin, I think, oh, my goodness, I'm so glad I learned this.
That's one thing with students that we get and students in all levels, you know, even more experienced people that didn't know they could wind bobbins while they were sewing.
Yeah, and I still hear it today when we've been at the slipcover summit or something where it's people are watching someone else at their machine.
And I think that sort of lends itself to how important in-person training is because things happen that had nothing to do with sewing a cushion.
So I am very, I'm grateful to Janelle for many things, but that was one of the biggest impacts early on for me.
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