Disclosure

Version 2026 — required by the FTC, and something we would publish anyway.

Where the money comes from

Sewing Mechanic earns commissions on some of the links it publishes: you pay the same price, a share of the seller's margin comes to us, and which product we recommend is decided before any of that.

What we will not do

No paid reviews, no sponsored rankings, no invented ratings or testimonials, and no pretending we have handled a product we have only researched. An unverifiable claim gets cut rather than hedged.

Where the picks come from

We start from what readers are actually trying to solve in presser feet, bobbins, needles, timing and the parts that make a machine sew, then work from published specifications, official documentation and publicly available user feedback. Commercial relationships are considered afterwards, never first.

Our own products

Besides affiliate links, we may sell our own digital guides. Those are ours, sold under the name Fieldnote Guides, and they are always labelled as a purchase rather than dressed up as a recommendation.

What it is not

That every link is a paid one. Most of them pay nothing at all, and they are in the article because they were the right thing to point at — not because someone was running a programme.

Questions

If you want to know whether a particular link earns us anything, ask through our contact page and we will tell you straight.

Amazon

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.