1. Sewing Tools 3.0: Demonstrate ways to manage clothing resources
3.03: Manage a sewing project

2. The TWO Most IMPORTANT SEWING RULES:
NEVER use the sewing equipment in any way other than its intended use.
NEVER behave in a way that is UNSAFE.
****You will receive ONE warning. After this warning you will put your sewing materials up for the day and complete book work.

3. Sewing Shears Use: Use fabric shears for fabric ONLY
Keep fabric on a surface as your cut
Safety/Care:
Pass with the handles toward another person
Keep blades closed when “resting”
Do not run with shears in your hands
Do not point or throw at other people
Do no attempt to cut the table, pins, needles, etc…

4. Pins Use: Safety/Care:
To attach your pattern or other pieces of fabric
To hold fabric in place
Safety/Care:
Do not put these in your mouth
Do not use pins to clean fingernails
Do not stick through your skin, or stick/point at someone else

5. Pin Cushion Use: Safety/Care: Holds your pins and needles
Do not throw the pin cushions
Push pins all the way through the pin cushion

6. Needles Use: Safety/Care: Do not put these in your mouth
For hand sewing
Safety/Care:
Do not put these in your mouth
Do not use them to clean fingernails
Do not stick through your skin, or stick/point at someone else

7. Seam Ripper Do not run with a seam ripper in your hands
Use:
To take out a seam (or row of stitches)
Safety/Care:
Do not run with a seam ripper in your hands
Do not point at other people

8. Tape Measure Do not cut the tape measure or misuse
To measure your body so you get an accurate fit
Safety/Care:
Do not cut the tape measure or misuse
Roll back up when finished

9. Seam Gauge Do not bend or misuse Use: Safety/Care:
A measuring tool that helps you keep seams and hems even
Safety/Care:
Do not bend or misuse

10. Thimble Do not throw or misuse Use: Safety/Care:
Protects your finger in hand sewing
Safety/Care:
Do not throw or misuse

11. Marking Tools Do not throw or misuse
These can be in the form of chalk, marker, pen, pencil, or tracing wheel and paper
They are used to mark your fabric
Safety/Care:
Do not throw or misuse
If it is a pen or marker, put the cap back on

12. Pinking Shears Use only on fabric
Shears used on fabric only that make a zig zag pattern instead of straight edge (keeps the fabric from unraveling)
Safety/Care:
Use only on fabric
(Same safety/care as the fabric shears)

13. Other Important Procedures to keep YOU and OTHERS SAFE:
Please Refrain from the following:
Running
Pushing
Pointing sewing equipment at self/others