The Truth About Handheld Sewing Machines and How To Use Them!

I just want to see if it works. Hi everyone, I'm Angelina and this is BlueprintDIY where we remake our clothes to be just as unique as us. We are in a slightly different setting today. I have been purchasing things for a video coming up but I also wanted to do a review separately of each separate product. The video that I'm trying to make is if you only have $50 what is the best sewing option sewing machine option for you. So you can look forward to that coming up once I gather all of the items. I have three out of the four items. Yes for $50 you have four options of things you can get or four types of options but I have two of them right here. I have the you guys have been wanting to see me do a review on this. The handy stitch is just an electric handheld sewing machine as well as this little mini sewing machine with a table. So these are both they run about like in the 20s but today we are going to review the handheld sewing machine. So let's go ahead and take this one down. You can see this one in another video and we're going to go ahead and unbox this baby. So the first thing I see in the box are some bobbins which is what these use as you know the thread. So it comes with six colors pretty cool and it comes with a pair of snips and a tape measure. I can never have too many tape measures so that's awesome. Then it also oh two more bobbins so eight colors and then the little spool threader a needle threader and a needle. All right so let's pull this out. So this is it this is one side and it comes already with a piece of fabric in there and I'm assuming it's threaded. Let's see if it has batteries in it already. It doesn't have batteries so let's put in the battery. All right so let's read the instructions before trying to operate. You guys know already that I am a I'll just try it first person but you can't be like that your whole life you know. Gotta grow up sometime. Instructions. I just want to see if it works. Press the power switch. What's the power switch? All right let's see tension control needle arm power switch. I thought that that should have been the power switch. Maybe my batteries don't work. Bobbin. Yes. Rotary wheel. Fastening plate. So okay got it got it got it. Yeah my batteries I don't think work. Oh you can put a power plug into it. I think I might have had the batteries in wrong. Let's try this again. I just want to see if it works because we know we have a history of buying handheld sewing machines that do not work. Trash. Is it making stitches? Ah it's a chain stitch. Look that's what it is supposed to be doing. That is what a handheld sewing machine is supposed to do. Yeah so let's see what we can do with this baby. All right I went and got some denim. So I took the piece off. This is the piece that came with it. Stitches. And this is what the back stitches look like. So it's basically a chain stitch and you know well if you know much about sewing you know that a chain stitch has to be tied in the back otherwise it'll all unravel. So I took the opportunity to learn actually about that and how to do it so I won't be up here wasting you guys time. So one thing I did notice as on further inspection is that there is a little bit of rust on this metal piece right here. That is not making me happy so keep that in mind if you are interested in this thing. Now granted because of my last experience I'm just glad the thing works. It's already threaded. I'm not going to fool with that. You can see how it's threaded from the little bobbin up through here and it has you go through the tension dial and then down through the needle. You do have to thread the needle from back to front. I see it there and when you are replacing the needle you do want to make sure that this little notched part is facing outward. You want to make sure you have at least two to three inches pulled out the front of it. Lift up and I have mine locked to make sure because this is electric. I want to make sure I don't make it go while I'm trying to get this in here. That would be tragic. So I am just going to put this inside and I am going to it doesn't say that you need to put the needle down or anything but you do have this dial that you can use to put the needle up and put the needle down. It says hold it with your right hand. I'm going to hold it with my left hand so you guys can see it operate. So hopefully I can operate left-handed today but let's see if this will work. Now someone said in the last video that you need to make a knot at the beginning. There's nothing in the instructions that say that you need to make a knot at the beginning. So I'm going to go according to the instructions right now and we're going to see how this goes. Okay so I'm going to show you the stitches pretty good pretty good. So what you want to do in order to get it out so that you don't lose your stitches is turn the dial so that the needle is all the way up and you can turn the dial either way and you want to use like a seam ripper or something just to pull the thread forward. Oh it broke it. You want at least like two or three inches but all right then you want to put the needle back in all the way and back up. It's stuck right here there we go all the way to its highest setting. Now you can pull the fabric out. Okay so we're going to set this aside and we are going to make our knot in the fabric to make sure that we don't lose it. You have your extra thread right here you actually need it on the inside so I went ahead and pulled that forward. All right I guess that's the reason why they give you this little thing with the hook because what you want to do is thread this through the loop and pull the last thread through so that you can make a knot and once you get it through you can go ahead and pull that tight and now your stitch won't come out and like I said before it's a chain stitch this is what it looks like on the back. So let's try it again let's actually sew fold this in half and sew it together. Lock it. Lock it when you're not using it. Oh my gosh I must not want fingers. All right I'm gonna go ahead and put the needle in down. It doesn't say to do that but I just want to start with the needle down. All right now I'm going to unlock it then I'm going to put the needle all the way up and lock it. I scared myself. Oh I got my stitches coming out. Okay so I kind of messed that up but we're still going to tie a little knot in here. Now I have a knot. All right so let's test the strength of the seam. Oh nice that's the back and it's this one here. All right so other than the fact that I can't seem to remember to lock it before I do anything to it I don't have too many complaints about this. It actually keeps the seams once you know how to do it. You can start your seams off without tying anything off so I really like that. It's really simple to thread. The instructions are actually understandable. They don't have weird translated words in it so I can appreciate that. The instructions tell you a lot about it which way to even turn the needle. For the last one the one that wasn't electric I had to go searching for stuff like that and then it still didn't work and so yeah. The extras I appreciate. The thread and the tape measure I appreciate those. This little hook thing yes is an absolute must for this and I appreciate it. I just hope I don't lose it because this is exactly what this machine needs. The fact that it can sew together two pieces of denim and give it a really really I'm like pulling. It gives it a really strong seam. Say for instance you have like wide leg jeans you want to make them skinny. Now the concern with that has always been for me that has to be a really strong stitch because that's on your thigh. You know thighs like to bust out well at least you know mine do but so if you're going to make something fitted or just a regular pair of pants you want to make it fitted or a dress you want to make it fitted anything you want to get fitted down your thighs you want that seam to be really strong. This would actually work so yeah the only thing is that little bit of rust on the front. You shouldn't be buying a new product and seeing rust so that's concerning and then the whole locking it thing. I'm glad it does have a lock. It would be nice if it just had an on off switch but you know just locking it will keep you from sewing your fingers together but it's just something I would have to get used to but this I would say is definitely worth the $20. I think it costs it and if you are in a bind and you just need to take something with you to sew or this is just your first sewing machine you want to just get your feet wet into upcycling or sewing then yes I can recommend this. I absolutely have not been paid for this review and I'm not even saying this particular one although I do have the link for this particular one but an electric one that actually works. Read the reviews guys when you go onto Amazon or any other site make sure you read the review see what people are saying about the product before you purchase it and if the reviews are I would say a four and above then you have probably have a pretty good product on your hands so yes I would actually recommend this. So I hope this was super helpful for you guys. I hope my mistakes keep you guys from having mistakes and I love to review products. I have a whole playlist over here of products for you guys to review and if you haven't subscribed definitely subscribe. I do new videos every Thursday and every Saturday at 9 a.m. and if you're interested in upcycling classes because that's mostly what we do here on this channel hit that join button down below to learn more about my Renegade Upcycle Challenge which is a class where I teach how I upcycle the thought process and everything that goes into it. We're doing an outfit all together. Everybody's not doing the same thing. It's your creativity and we're just making sure that you get it done. I will see you guys in the next one. Bye!