A few
weeks ago Helen Chaffin asked for some advice about sewing a fully lined sleeveless
dress on the Monthly Stitch facebook page. While I’ve
done this several times I had great difficulty explaining it.
I’ve been sewing up a new working wardrobe in
preparation for the (hopefully soon) day when I get a job, and it includes a
dark green sleeveless dress, so I thought I’d try and explain the process with
pictures.
I sew up
the dress, and another dress out of lining.
At this point I don’t sew the shoulder seams, or the back seam. I will be putting a zip in the back
seam. If you’re putting the zip a side
seam then leave this seam open instead.
I then
lay them right sides together and stitch up the neck seam, the two underarm
seams and the back neck seams.
The shoulder seam is left open
I trim my
seam allowances and clip where necessary, but I don’t understitch yet, nor do I
press it.I just turn it the right way out.
The shoulder seams, with the unfinished edges, are still open.
The next
bit is really hard to explain, so I’ve tried a video. This comes with several disclaimers:
a) I am not an experienced videographer, in fact
I had to read my camera’s instruction manual to find out how to take video.
b) I didn’t tidy up my sewing studio, or even
myself, before taking this
c) I have no idea how to edit video, so this is
as it comes out of the camera.
With that
disclaimer, here it is!
So long
as your shoulder isn’t too narrow you should be able to sew all the way round
with the machine.
So when
you turn it the right way in again, it’s all neatly sewn up.
I hope
that this helps someone, because I’m pretty sure that my explanation on
facebook was more confusing than clarifying.
I'll be pinning this info, bound to need it. thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteI'm delighted to hear that people undeerstand it. I really couldn't think of anyway to explain it without video.
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