Had a total disaster week with my denim jacket design, need advice

I spent all last week working on a denim jacket for a small local show in Portland. I wanted to do this cool patchwork with recycled Levi's pieces I got from a thrift store for $20. But the seams kept puckering on my home machine and I had to rip them out like 4 times on Wednesday alone. Then the thread snapped on the final panel and I nearly cried. It was just a string of bad luck where nothing lined up right. Has anyone else had a week like that where every stitch went wrong? What do you do to get back on track?

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matthewross27d ago

You ever try a walking foot for denim? I used to think it was a waste of money but now I swear by it. Changed everything for me.

mitchell.mark27d ago

What kind of denim you usually work with? @matthewross I remember when I first tried one on an old Singer I got from a thrift store... man, that machine just would not feed the layers evenly. I kept getting these weird puckers on the seams. Almost gave up on making a pair of jeans. Then a buddy at a fabric swap told me to try a walking foot. It was like night and day. I still think about that first pair, all crooked and messed up...