Sewing Methods & Techniques

A skirt can have many types of openings. But the best one is the kind with zippers. You can attach the zippers to the skirt in many ways. Here are the ones I know.  3 ways to  sew a waistband with zipper Method 1 With the waistband and invisible zipper In this method an invisible … Read more

A plain seam is the stitching made to join two fabric pieces together, leaving some seam allowance, usually 1/2 inch or 5/8 inch. This stitching to join fabric pieces together is termed as piecing. So you are piecing a plain seam when you stitch two fabric pieces together – that is it!. You can sew … Read more

Once there was a news article about this child who had to be operated because a needle somehow got into his body. I read it and it gave me the heebie-jeebies. For one week I was so terrified that I had left needles like this and it had —-. Too horrified to even write about … Read more

Professional Sewing involves many repetitive tasks, frequent head, and trunk bending movements for a long period, long duration of sitting work without a break. Poor sewing room layout, incorrect table, and chair heights, repetitive actions for long hours without any break, lack of exercise – all these results in Musculoskeletal pain (MSP) – simple body … Read more

Some people abandon sewing altogether in the initial days of starting sewing, just like my daughter did. She got frustrated at simple things like threading a needle, being unable to knot the thread and major things like the sewing machine tangling all the thread in the spool. In Sewing, such frustrations come up all the … Read more