Sunday, June 8, 2014

The Need Of A Perfect Piecing Seam Guide

By Kenya Campos


With the ever changing fashion in the trendy world today, more and more young people are becoming interested in being fashion designers. This is evident by the many fashion designing schools that are emerging and the quick change in fashion designs almost every day. To become a good designer one should be able to know how to use a sewing machine not only well but perfectly, make something out of a rug that people would want to wear and be join pieces together. A perfect piecing seam guide is a small plastic ruler with a laser line and has a needle hole scant quarter inch.

Seaming is the art of joining two edges of a line in a piece of cloth. Every good or upcoming designer has to be very good if not ideal in this. For this one need an ideal seam guide and this is the plastic ruler with a laser line and has a needle hole scant quarter inch. To get ideal seams one has to know the procedures to follow in using the machine, how to position it which should be under the presser foot. It should be in line with the throat plate.

Next is placing a small piece of the edge next to the machine, using a tape to hold the sewing edge in place. The guides can now be removed as the edge that was formed using it can be used to direct you, while doing the stitching.

The reason why quarter inch scant is advisable is because the thread and fabric takes up much space and if you are not careful you might end up with something smaller than you expected, especially if you are making something with too many seams.

In a case where you end up with an undesired design and you need to undo, there are seam rippers to help you undo the seams. For doing the seaming we have different types of sewing machines that is the manual and electric sewing machines.

Then there is the electric sewing machine which uses electricity and is faster hence a lot of work is done in a short time and is less tiring. The only problem with electronic sewing machines is that electricity has to be available for it to work.

Quilting is the process in which two or more layers of the material are sewed together to make it thicker, while the people who do this jobs are called quilters. Quilting can be done by use of a sewing machine, hands or by a special quilting system. This process only requires a needle, a thread; a quilter or the sewing machine and more often people prefer a layer of three materials.

The process of sewing together two or more layers of material to make it thicker is called quilting and this is done by people called quilters. There are special quilting systems for doing the quilting or it can be done using hands or using a sewing machine. Tailors now have an easy time making ideal seams due to the discovery of this guide unlike before where they only used to estimate the seams.




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