Any Sewing Genius’s?
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Topic: Any Sewing Genius’s?
Posted By: sunnyhoney
Subject: Any Sewing Genius’s?
Date Posted: 05 December 2008 at 4:14pm
How do you reinforce a split in a skirt?? I'm reading the instructions and getting awfully confused. How do you do an invisible seam and what is seam binding??
TIA ------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 05 December 2008 at 4:41pm
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I know Nikki is a sewing person, hopefully she will see this and help you. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Danaj
Date Posted: 06 December 2008 at 10:39am
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In these situations, I get in my car and drive to the seamstress lol. I just used masking tape to fix a loose hem so no help here i'm afraid! ------------- http://www.TickerFactory.com/weight-loss/wyI1oWn/"> 
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Posted By: weegee
Date Posted: 06 December 2008 at 12:22pm
Haven't seen Nikki around in a while...  she's busy moving house I think (from blog stalking her!).
Is the split in the fabric itself or on a seam? If it's in the middle of a panel then your best bet is some iron-on interfacing on the wrong side of the fabric. If it's on a seam, there are some great instructional videos linked to http://www.wonderhowto.com/tag/seam/ - here (check out the second page for ripped or torn hems). "Invisible seams" mean different things depending on the context, but in your case probably means a form of hand sewing where you only pick up a couple of threads of the material at a time (working from the wrong side) so you can't see the stitches from the right side - take a look at the bottom of some dress pants for an example. Seam binding, or bias binding, is a fabric tape which you fold over the seam allowance to finish or reinforce a seam, you can get it from spotlight or any fabric or notions shop. Hope that made sense! ------------- 
Mum to JJ, 4 July 2008 & Addie, 28 July 2010 |
Posted By: sunnyhoney
Date Posted: 07 December 2008 at 9:31am
Thanks ladies. I'm making a skirt from scratch and it requires a reinforced seam for the split...will check out that link weegee.  ------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |
Posted By: weegee
Date Posted: 07 December 2008 at 10:35am
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Ohhhh I misunderstood, duh, you mean the skirt is designed to have a split, you're not fixing a tear!!!
In that case, what I said about the bottom of dress trousers still holds -------------
Mum to JJ, 4 July 2008 & Addie, 28 July 2010 |
Posted By: sunnyhoney
Date Posted: 08 December 2008 at 1:04pm
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------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |