Cutting and sewing technique

In the article and my short video lesson, we will consider options for such processing of the bottom of the product when sewing. In addition to the lesson, see my ready-made life-size patterns for women's clothing, in which such processing can be applied when sewing.

When sewing a dress with your own hands, novice couturiers should pay special attention to processing the bottom.

It is precisely by the incorrectly chosen method of sewing and the lack of wet-heat treatment that one can determine the lack of sewing skills.

Sewing lessons from Vera Olkhovskaya

Did you know that the zipper was invented over 100 years ago?!

This amazing invention was patented by Umtcomb L. Judson on November 7, 1891, as a shoe fastener, which was needed by his friend, who injured his back during a fire. This hero saved a little girl from the fire.

Success came to Judson only in 1917, when America entered the First World War ... I will not retell the whole story of the "lightning", it is worthy of a separate article, but I will only add that the secret "lightning" has been in trend for more than one year and is not going to give up its positions, so it's time to learn how to sew them to the dress, even if you don't know how to sew. After all, hidden "zippers" sometimes break and have to be changed...

sewing lessons from Vera Olkhovskaya

Just think, some ten years ago there was a joke: “I’ll buy an overlocker. I'll take a look at what it is."

Now the venerable public is tormented only by those questions that modern search engines cannot answer. So, what to replace it with?

Ask the girls who got their grandmother's "Heads" and "Singers" from the mezzanine and the tailors did not dull the overlock knife in time ...

I tried to analyze the most popular answers to this question today in the video master class on sewing

These are the same patch pockets that will allow you to turn men's underpants pattern in short men's shorts without much cost and effort.

Of course, for this you should be engaged in sewing clothes with your own hands.

I remind you that these patterns are free and can be downloaded without registration and other tricks.

Watch a video of a sewing master class on making patch pockets on shorts (skirts or trousers).

In this article for beginners, we continue to study how to process the waist cut when sewing skirts, shorts, trousers with our own hands.

Two videos and ready-made patterns for beginners with step by step instructions on how to sew.

Lesson content:

Sewing lessons from Vera Olkhovskaya

How to learn to sew? Question for all time.

Whether you decide to learn to sew on your own or take a sewing course, you still can't avoid learning how to take measurements.

Even if you sew according to the ready-made patterns of Vera Olkhovskaya, the size of which can be chosen according to the size of your favorite clothes, you still have to master taking measurements.

Taking measurements is the most important lesson in cutting and sewing.

So, watch the video master class ...

On the way of those who are engaged in tailoring with their own hands, there are many difficulties associated with obtaining false information on Internet resources created by people who have little understanding of tailoring and sewing.

If you want to learn how to sew, start by taking measurements, but learn to take measurements in the cutting system that you will cut, as each system and each teacher presents this lesson in his own way.

Of course, in any case, you will have to remember all the designations and the very procedure for taking measurements.

Usually this boring and uninteresting activity is skipped and this is the first omission of amateur tailors.

Sewing clothes with your own hands at home requires the couturier to know some sewing secrets that can increase the class of the product.

In the article, watch a short video and step-by-step instructions on how to make a podkatnik and sew it under the hem of a sleeve with folds or with an assembly, as well as my ready-made dress patterns in which it is advisable to apply such sleeve processing when sewing.

The article and video discusses one undeservedly forgotten tailor's secret that allows you to create beautiful eye in the sleeves of a blouse or dress with a full head.

Other design features of the sleeve pattern do not matter.

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Today, in shops offering all sorts of little things for sewing, bias binding occupies a separate window, seducing customers with a variety of colors and patterns.

The price is affordable, but how to work with it? That is the question.

You can do without a binder, but it is quite difficult and troublesome.

For those who like to work the old fashioned way, I suggest follow the link and make a bias tape at home.