If you’re an experienced sewer or seamstress, you’re familiar with facing and its importance when sewing garments. If you’re a novice at sewing, facing is either an unfamiliar term or one that elicits dread and sometimes aggravation. Actually, it plays a key role in how your finished garment looks and how it lays. When […]
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How to Read a Sewing Pattern
Finally, the time has come and you decided to buy a sewing pattern. When you open it you’ll see inside a bunch of confusing arrows, symbols and lines. Calm down! I’ll help you figure everything out. If I need a pattern, I usually buy it with a magazine, in an envelope or buy a PDF […]
How to Measure Hips
If you are planning on sewing lower-body clothing (a pencil skirt, shorts, pants…), such body measurement as the hip girth is of great importance, but sometimes you may need to measure both the height and girth of the hips. Let’s use a flexible measuring tape to take the measurements. Step 1. Stand in front of […]
How to Take Body Measurements for Sewing
It is impossible to sew clothes without taking body measurements. The thing is that people have different figures and everyone wants a dress made specially for their figure. Some have bigger breasts, others have smaller waists, some are taller, others are shorter, everyone is unique. A pattern has a certain size and requires you to […]