Tag: closures

• Buttonhole

  Sizing, placing and sewing machine buttonholes that don't gape or stretch - with a placement diagram, the bust-point rule, cutting them open safely, and what to do when the machine stalls.

• Zipper Insertion

  How to insert centred, lapped, invisible and exposed zippers - choosing the right zipper and method, stabilising the seam, matching waist seams across the opening, and fixing waves and bubbles.

• Boning a Bodice

  Choosing boning, building channels, placing bones in a strapless or fitted bodice, cutting and capping them - and why a waist stay, not the boning, is what holds a strapless dress up.

• Placket

  A finished opening in a garment, usually with a band for buttons or snaps - shirt front plackets, sleeve plackets, polo and side plackets, and tips for sewing them neatly.