New 2024 Sew-In Tips and Tricks

This is the net I use. I don't use anything else but this, okay? So take a screenshot because it's all I use. People ask me like, where do I get it from? I order it by the box from the company. Comes like 12 of these packages in one big box. So if you do hair a lot, you might want to get in contact with the direct company, and you have to have like your sales license and everything like that to buy, you know, tax-free. But this is the thread I use. Let me get my face out of it. So this is the only thread I use, same company. It comes with like about 6, 7 of these cases in the box. And this is how big they are. So this is how big they are. This is one. Can you see the color? You see the color that I use is brown. So this lasts me for a very long time. If you are doing a lot of heads, sew-ins in particular, you really want this. It's a lifesaver. So you see on this one, I'm like down to the— we're almost gone. As far as my needles, I have 3 different lengths. So I have this one, and then I have this one, and then I have this one. So you see the difference. I only like curved needles, and I will get needles wherever. I'll be like, give me as many as you got. Because I like to keep my needles threaded. Um, so as you can see, like, these are threads that are hanging on this mannequin head behind you, and these are already threaded. And, um, this is what I would use when my client comes. I will already have my threads done, ready to go. For the super small needles, I do not use those for closures because on the closures, on that first braid, you really need room to stitch in that braid and back out that braid. So the small ones are a little bit too small for that. I could use a medium, but I really prefer the longest needle around the closure. So that's super important. Um, the shorter needles, I could do that inside sometimes if you really got your grip and everything ready when you're threading. Like, the small one works really fast and easy. I would not use it on the first row row because it does, you know, it ain't— it's, it's a little small to gather it when you trying to get up underneath the braid on the bottom of the head. So I would use probably the longest on the outside or even the medium. So then the scissors, and all of— again, all of this is in my storefront, but these are by Singer. Singer. So these are actually Singer, um, scissors for like cutting lace, like real lace, like fabrics. So I have them everywhere. I have them in purple, I have them in like a pink, and I have the turquoise. Like, I have all over. Once they get dull, I'm done with them, I get another pair. For the closure, there's 3 different lengths I thread my needles, and I use my arms length to determine which one is which. So the shortest one is what I sew around like the lace closure. So literally this arm is here holding the thread, and this arm I extend, I let it go, and then I extend, and I extend one more time. So that's a closure. So you notice that this arm didn't go out twice, I just went from here to here, here to here. So that's in half, that's— this is the length of what I use around the closure. That, that makes sense. Off, put it through. So you see, this is exactly how long is the needle. That's how long it is. So that's perfect for me to get up the closure, one side around the back. So this is only one side of the closure. I need two. So every time I do a sew-in, I need two short needles for my sew-ins. So for the middle, then I then go three times instead of the two. So I got the string. I'm going 1, drop it, grabbing it, 2, drop it, 3, drop it, and then I cut right here.

So thread her in there.

Huh, this is the difference. The needle's here, thread's here. So in my opinion, when you tie your knot to the very end, you're wasting less thread. Okay, I want to use all the thread I can. So then for my longest length, I go holding it, so I go 1, 2, 3, 4, and then I cut. And another good thing about this Singer scissors is when you cut, you only have to cut once. And that's really important because when you're, um, doing someone's hair, like, you don't want to start snagging when you cut anything. You just want it to flow nice and smooth. Everything is important with the things that I do for my sew-ins, all around. Like, everything is important. I can't even go like I got to throw that one over my shoulder. I pull my thread. So what I do every time I thread a needle, once I get the needle up here, I go to the end and I make it even, and then I go and I hold it to where it's an even thread. So I'm pulling it between my fingers because I don't want it to be twisted up and everything. I want it to be just smooth pulling through. So So I hold it between my fingers from the needle to the tip just to make sure it's not curled and rolled and intertwined. That helps your sewing go smoother too. Once you get the hang of the long needles, you'll be throwing that needle over your shoulder, pulling the rest through, going stitch, stitch, stitch, because you remember my tips about how to stitch faster. So when you got your long thread, you going. Another really thing about a long thread, making it continuous and having a longer thread helps that client when they go to take out their sewing. So I don't lock stitch, and the way I stitch, if you cut one piece, you'll just pull and be unraveling. You won't have to like pull, cut, pull, cut. Like if I use one long thread you won't have to cut for a long time. So everything is done to make the install faster, make it last, and also make it easy for the client to remove when it's time. So that's why I use the brown thread. I want my customers to be able to see it and not accidentally cut their own hair. I don't like the lock stitch because I want my customers to be able to take it out without cutting their hair. And I use the longer threads to make the install faster. Yeah, so hope you guys— y'all know I got videos coming up. I got the braid patterns in the 4K, I got the sewing on the net in the 4K, I got everything in 4K. Wait till they come out with 5K. You like my shirt?

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So here I wanted to show you guys how I knot my threads, um, and also how I thread the needle. So I take it around my finger and then I push those strings around the back and through the front of the hole. So I'm going to do it one more time to show you. I actually push it through, so I wrap it around my index finger and that little piece of thread. I pull that off my finger and push that little piece of thread behind and through the center forward. I like to pull my thread and my knot all the way to the end of the thread so that— and I do it 3 times sometimes— so I pull that knot to be at the very end of the thread because I'm very big on not wasting thread. I've said that like 20 times throughout my last few videos. So here's the third knot. I do it the same way where I pull it through the front, and I'm pushing that knot to the end because I want it to be knotted over the same knot. So here I'm going to show you how I thread my needle. So you don't want to thread it like that, and you want to be better than me. Get you some water, okay? And then put it on the tip of that thread and then it'll be so much easier to thread that needle. So a lot of the times when you have a point, it'll go straight through, and sometimes if you flip the needle over and go the other way, it goes a lot easier. Sometimes a different side of the needle is different. A second way is I push it all the way and sandwich it in with my fingers, and I put my needle all the way up to my fingers so that when— as I open my fingers, the only place the thread has to go is through that needle. And you see how easy that went. So it may take a couple times of practice, but I push it through and then I'm opening my fingers slightly while I'm pushing the needle between my fingers to collect that thread. And you see how two times it happened really easy for me. So I thread all of my needles— the middle ones, the long ones up top, the middle ones in the middle, and then the short ones are all the way to the right at the bottom of the canvas head. So I hope this video helps you guys, and if you haven't already, check out my Etsy store because I've been working like, oh, I've been working all day and all night because I love just creating this stuff. So I hope you guys really enjoy everything that I'm uploading now, and drop a comment if there's something that I may have missed that you want to see, because this 4K, these 4K HD videos are giving me life, and I feel like finally I can give y'all in-depth videos. But if you want to see these videos uploaded without all the commentary, without the ads, without all the riffraff, make sure you subscribe to my membership channel because that where I upload my bloopers and my behind the scenes.

And those are the long ones, and I have more long ones because I like to use the more— the long ones often. The only reason I'll use a middle one is if, um, probably if I know I'm near the end and I have a ways to go but not long threadways to go, then I will use the middle one.

Hopefully you all really enjoyed this video as much as I did making it, and be sure to check out my Etsy channel because it took me a long time to get this stuff together. But I was so happy to be able to finally put my ideas in a store because I just love technology and designing. And I mean, if y'all have requests like, oh, I want such and such, like, please drop a comment because I love creating things. Like, I've really always been into computers. If you guys don't know, I create my own content, I edit my own videos, I do my own reels, I do my own everything.