Tag: hand-finishing

• French Seam

  A seam sewn twice so the raw edges end up sealed inside a narrow tube - the cleanest finish for sheers and lightweight fabrics, with step-by-step diagrams, seam allowance maths, and fixes for whiskers and puckers.

• Flat-Felled Seam

  The tough, fully enclosed seam used on jeans and work shirts - how to sew it with or without a felling foot, which side the fell goes on, and how to handle curves and thick crossings.

• Bias Binding

  Cutting, joining, pressing and applying bias strips to finish necklines, armholes and raw edges - with strip-width formulas, two application methods, and fixes for rippling and missed stitches.

• 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.