Thanks. I am new to channel. And fairly new to sewing. Sometimes when you overlock a seam then join that piece to another ie underarm to side seam, the seam does not lay open. So pinning is a problem. Bulky seam. Also french seams joining to another french seam would be tricky even to pin I would think. Maybe I am misunderstanding.
I use a trick from quilting I learn that always works. I match seams then place pin through the vertical seam between the sewn seam NOT catching either fabric ONLY the threads then pin rest like you do. Works on garments and perfectly match seams and points in quilt tops. Give it try.
That cross hair pin trick on the seam allowance where the seams (should) meet is SO helpful! Just about to start sewing a project - for the first time in decades!
little nugget of value here... use the hand wheel going over the tricky slow seam part... ahhh!!! life changer right there :D thanks for making this vid
So true. I have to remember to use the hand wheel for actual sewing... it's right there and yet I always forget about it until I'm done sewing and need to lift the needle...
I'm 60 and totally new at sewing. No idea what I'm doing! Bought a sewing machine, probably the wrong one, to make masks for the family. Just moved up to pillowcases, oh boy. Can't even get that right, pinned material and for some reason it started puckering. Changed my thread, tension no luck. So so happy I've found you, been watching the past few evenings and you're so inspirational, knowledgeable and lovely young lady. Thank you for the tips I've received so far and can't wait to watch more. You're Great!!! Thank you!
New subscriber. Have been sewing for about 55 years. Currently learning how to quilt. I love your repurposing attitude. I made most of my children's clothes but never had good luck with my own,. I may give it another try.
As a newbie sewer and a perfectionist, Im loving learning the right way to do things from the start. Before I start a new project I always check to see if you’ve made a video of any new techniques involved. I am really enjoying learning the process of sewing. You give me confidence and I always feel confident and excited to put your techniques into practice. Thank you
I thoroughly enjoy your videos and all the thought you put into the content and the beautiful presentation of yourself and your surroundings-and I sympathised with your wry apology for that pesky plane today-but it was kinda funny, too. My sewing buddy died last year and I’m pretty lonely in this space now, and somehow your videos give me comfort as well as inspiration. I also really enjoy reading the comments of other people, both new and experienced. After making three pairs of shorts from a pattern and still not getting the right fit I was ready to give up, but now I’m raring to go again 😂
these are things that you are showing me I know absolutely nothing about sewing just bought a new machine want to do some sewing I'm a man sewing my own stuff thanks for the tips
Aww thanks so much!! I'm so flattered I could sow yoy somthing useful to your sewing! I don't thinkI we are ever done learning! I live finding new ways to do things too! 😗
I am totally new to sewing, haven't atrepted to make anything yet but love watching ur videos as I am picking up some great tips that are helping me feel much more confident! Thanks for sharing all this valuable info 😊
I have been sewing for about 65 years, took sewing class in junior and senior high school and was never shown this. My two two sewing teaching sat at their desks and marked our garment when it was done. Thanks so much for these videos. I am about to make a bathrobe after some years of giving up clothing.
I'm self thought, so I've always pinned from one side to another, and I always end up with excess fabric. From now on, I will be using this method. Many thanks for a great tip.
Funny enough, the same principle works with non-fabric materials. Like when you are screwing on a machine cover, even a pressure cooker. Do two opposite ones, then the other direction, and gradually tighten them. Not just start one one, tighten it, and go all the way around. If it matters for metal and wood, how much more it matters for fabric!
I LOVE watching your videos. How you do this is fascinating! As a quilter, matching seams is "de rigueur" for me and misaligned seams are tantamount to original sin (kidding!) If Mom found I'd sewn an unmatched seam, she'd make me rip it apart and do it over again. So matching seams carefully is a now habit, whether quilting or garment-making and "easing" has been part of my vocabulary since I was about 10 yrs old - a VERY long time ago. Pinning ends first makes pinning any seam easier, as does breaking down long seams into smaller segments - especially if you're sewing elastic into a bathing suit or some such! However, I was also taught never to hold the fabric up while pinning, that it would cause shifting and those dreaded, evil little puckers or pleats. But it seems that both ways work, so the heck with it! I'm going to stop obsessing over keeping my fabric laying flat while pinning. When matching seams, I like to put a pin vertically through all layers, fabric and open seam allowance, on both sides of the seam, in order to prevent shifting under the presser foot as well as to prevent the seam allowance from being pushed over the wrong way. Hate that! I've also been known as one who's anal enough (sigh, can't help it) to put a pin vertically into the seam itself as well. ONE CAVEAT - you need LONG thin pins for this, short ones create a buckle the fabric and can shift your matched seams, which of course is what you're trying to prevent in the first place! (Ask me how I know this 😉😁)
As a brand new sewist, this video is extremely helpful. It makes total sense to me, starting off from the largest bits & working down into smaller & smaller sections each time. Thank-you. 🙂
Been sewing for years and think I know everything. Then I watch you do something as simple as pinning and realize the things I don't know. Sewing is a never ending learning process.
My mom taught me how to sew as a child and passed after a short battle with cancer a couple years ago. While she was sick we started an apron but got only as far as cutting out the pattern pieces. I've recently picked up the project to finish but have trouble remembering all her instructions from 30 years ago so started satching your videos. I had a complete flashback to seeing my moms elbow on the fabric while she was pinning!! Thank you so much for these videos! It's helping me with sewing and memories! ❤
Ever since watching this video, I have been pinning this way. What a difference it has made. I never skip pinning now. Thank you Evelyn for teaching us something so simple but so effective
Whenever I pin two pieces of non-stretchy fabric together and one piece is slightly longer than the other, I make small snips in the shorter piece (similar to what's done around curves) and this gives the shorter piece a little more give or stretch and it matches up and lays flat more easily during pinning.
Another long-handed lady here! I feel your pain in trying to find gloves that fit! But I can see that my long fingers will help when I'm pinning. I learn so much from you!
I like your tip on getting the seams to line up and not move. I'm definitely going to try that. My pinning should become more accurate now. Thanks for sharing. X
This is my favorite video of yours so far! I have struggled for years with my cloth bunching up at the end of a seam and have never seen this solution. THANK YOU
I am a beginner, and feeling a bit overwhelmed.😳 Your pinning tips will be a great help and I will definitely be watching more of your videos! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
The accent just makes all the great content even better! 😂🥰 How could anyone not listen to all your great advice! And I need all the help I can get. Thank you!🙏
Your method is the same way I do it. No need to apologize for the airplane noise. We live in the flight path of an airport too. Love your videos! Loads of helpful tips, thank you. I found you 3 days ago and have been binge watching ever since.
I have looked in my sewing books and they never told me this. Not even in the trouble shooting guides about uneven outcomes of finished projects. Thanks 🥰
So glad you made this video! I am not a seamstress, but I'm going to attempt to sew a set of chairback covers. I've got my fabric cut out and pinned and now that I've watched this, I realize I'll have to RE-PIN all of them! But that's OK, because now I know that when I'm done, they'll look much better than they were going to look if I hadn't watched this! Thank you!
This make so much sense. I do have one question: Do you cut your fabric off of the pattern piece or do you make a copy of the pattern and cut your fabric from that? Enjoy your videos. Stay healthy and be well!
Very nice demonstration of distributing ease while pinning. I have had the worst time catching a full skirts fabric while I'm seeing to a waistband or bodice. I now pin a second line a few inches from the seam line to wrangle the width away from my sewing. Only if the fabric won't be marked of course. Maybe I'm just clumnsy?
Magnets can also be helpful as an extra set of hands. I have a steel ruler flush with my table top. You can use many other things as well. It can be a hinge or anything that is magnetic. I use a neodymium magnet wrapped in cloth to hold cloth I am pinning to that piece of metal. Its like a partner holding something for you. Neodymium magnets can hold a lot of weight, some of them can hold 50+ pounds. You can also get magnetic contraptions you can turn on and off called "Magswitch". I hope that is helpful for someone who is less physically able or someone working on a piece larger than their body can easily reach.
The “use your whole body”also applies to ripping or as I now copied from you “un-picking”. I repurpose thrift store drapes and tablecloths and often take out the seams for a little more usable fabric.
Ah! I needed this yesterday when I was trying to "ease" (so that's the word!) two pieces of fabric together! (I was creating a new style of sleeves on a high school costume because one sleeve had been shredded. It's a challenge for this new sewer.) Thank you for another insightful video. My husband suggested I attach a clamp to the edge of the table to help hold long pieces of fabric. It might help, but I haven't actually tried it yet. And finally, I'm so excited that your channel is growing, and I realize that it can make things like replies unrealistic. I'm glad you've started a newsletter to keep viewers further connected. Thanks!
Yes ease is the word!! The clamp sounds like such a man idea to come up with 🤣 Also if you have a seam with one layer looser than the other (because you've had to ease it in 😉) sew with the tighter layer ontop! As the layer on top tends to get 'pushed' more than the botton layer, I hour that makes sense! So glad you enjoyed the newsletter too and I'm so thankyou to have you in my 'gang' xx
I actually often, especially on more finnicky things first pin, then use something between a regular running stich and basting stich to see how everything fits and THEN sew. Yes, it takes more time but I found it helps.
You need not apologize for the jet noise, it wasn't bad at all, and I must say that I think your pinning method is brilliant. I'll bet that something like a carpenter's vice would hold things so you could pin more effectively or the sewing bird tool. I don't know if they would work but it seems like it could. Thank for your tutorial it really is helpful.
You are a genius! I wouldn’t have known that there was a skill to how to pin seams! I am gobsmacked! Thank you! I can’t wait to set my sleeves in correctly next time!
I will be trying everything lol. My tip is using an ironing board when pinning my patterns to my fabric. I have a very large ironing board that I use for just pattern pinning. I use my straight pins and pin the pattern and fabric into the padded cover, securing it all to the table. I then measure my seam allowances and cut it out. The pieces don’t move and I get perfect results every time. If you have to move your fabric around to fit the whole pattern on the ironing board, or you have to do it in sections. I pin the pattern to the fabric, then use more pins to secure it to the table. Draw out my seam allowances before cutting. I sometimes need to unpin the fabric and pattern from the board and move the fabric to a new section, pin it to the board and draw out my seam allowances. When it comes to cutting I cut 1/3 of the pattern, then move the rest of the uncut pattern onto the board. I then cut out the rest.
I just saw that this video is three years old, but I felt compelled to comment anyway. The pinning techniques are excellent and I use the ends to ends, notches to notches method myself. However, I am old and have difficulty manipulating my body to do the fabric easing. Instead, I will do a running stitch within the seam allowance, then pin in place. It is an extra step but is so much easier for me.
Set in sleeves sewn for 18 inch dolls were a nightmare, the pins are too large. I started using glue made for quilters and it saved my sanity. I love your videos. I'm learning so many new ways to sew. Thank you.
Cross hair pinning is an awesome tip I never would have thought of. But I thought I was the only one using my whole body. I was making curtains for a friend and had to spread the fabric out on the floor. I ended up using my knees to hold edges together. She laughed at me, but it worked! 😂
I use the heel of my hand to hold fabric flat on the table while my fingers stretch across to put in the pin. Your ideas are very good. Some people struggle to move both hands in different ways.
im getting prepared to do my first skirt or dress im still not sure whats easier but im so glad i watched this to know how to pin stuff together you made it seem 10x easier
Thankyou Evelyn, excellent video, I will take on board all your tips. I have just started dressmaking again it has been 40years since I made a garment! I made a mockup (never did this before) of a top I plan to do and I am so glad I did as I made a few errors, it's a huge learning curve. You are a fabulous teacher I have been totally inspired by you, loving all your videos.
O my gosh! I am a beginning sewist with a project in hand-the Bilbo Baggins bathrobe. One of my judge questions was how to pin!!! This video and the prior one have answered so many of my questions 😁.
I want to thank you so much, I learned to sew 46 years ago. Every time I watch one of your videos , I learn something new! A high school teacher who was a Nun started me out, now you are improving my skills and encouraging my love for sewing!!! I love the expression " The way you pin , is the way you sew.
Great tips! I use a plastic Carpenter A-Clip (+/- 4 Inch) to 'pin' one corner to the table. So can keep the seams straight with one hand while I pin with the other.
Janet Pray has a video on Bluprint called Advanced Industry Techniques, she shared a technique involving using the feed dogs to ease two curves together. Combined with your technique, of starting the pinning from the ends and then focusing on seam lines, and notches with hers allowed me to target potential problem areas by easing with the feed dogs. I too wish I had learned this method when I began sewing years ago.
I learned something with the feed dog too. I like this better. Trying to pull fabic while it's on the machine isn't really good for the fabric or the machine, in my experience.
This is the second time I've watched this. I was a complete beginner the first time. Now, I've sewn a few garments and am better able to absorb and retain the details. It really is a reiterative process but hopefully soon I'll be able to do it without having to think about it too much or fumbling about with my fingers. I'm just doing my first knit garment and pinning correctly is more challenging but this helps. Thank you!
Cross- hair pinning is going to be a total game changer for me. This tip will take my garment making to a different level!!!!! Thank you for blessing us with your knowledge.
Am thermal lining and relining some very old long curtains. So glad I found this video as my lining ended up about 20 cm shorter than my main fabric when I pinned them together yesterday! I feel very reassured after watching your video and will start again from both ends this time!! Wish me luck 🙏
Hi from Missouri USA! I recently found your videos. I mostly make bags. I don't have the room to make clothing. I had to laugh at the planes interrupting you. I live very close to an Air Force base. Having a squadron of bombers fly over your house is always a lot of fun, especially when trying to record a video.
I've been sewing for a long time too. I've never heard of this I wish this would have been taught in high-school. I've been benging on your videos all morning. I'm working on a simple 2 piece bodice and I need help thanks for your video. I'm not understanding the instructions either lol.
That last tip you showed was very, very nice one! I've never thought to use two pins like that to really secure it in place as I'm super afraid of braking a needle by sewing over a pin lol. Very smart tho, I will try!
I loved the crosshairs tip! I always try to match up seams and I do put a pin on that point, but sometimes it ends up not so perfect, so it must have shifted somehow. I'll give myself permission to use more than 1 pin on that point in future! Thanks for the great videos, and you have a wonderful style for doing video tutorials! greetings from Ireland
Hi Evelyn! THANK YOU for teaching me these techniques! I the crosshairs pins on a top I made the other week and it was PERFECT! It is the Atlas Top by Stitch Witch patterns, and there is a centre front seam which joins 2 darts in the centre front. A very visible place to make mistakes (or to nail it!). I used your technique and it was perfect. Thank you!
Let me know what you found the most helpful! And let us all know any tricks YOU have for pinning fabric right everytime! Xx
Thanks. I am new to channel. And fairly new to sewing. Sometimes when you overlock a seam then join that piece to another ie underarm to side seam, the seam does not lay open. So pinning is a problem. Bulky seam. Also french seams joining to another french seam would be tricky even to pin I would think. Maybe I am misunderstanding.
The more layers and the more bulk is always tricker, but I still reply on the same method of pinning!
I love your cross-hair pinning technique, and can't wait to try it!
I use a trick from quilting I learn that always works.
I match seams then place pin through the vertical seam between the sewn seam NOT catching either fabric ONLY the threads then pin rest like you do. Works on garments and perfectly match seams and points in quilt tops. Give it try.
That cross hair pin trick on the seam allowance where the seams (should) meet is SO helpful! Just about to start sewing a project - for the first time in decades!
This is the best sewing channel on RUclips.
😍😍😍😍
Came for the seam instructions, subbed for the eyebrows 🥰
I didn’t know there was a more efficient way to pin . I love that tip.
I’ve been sewing for over a quarter of a century and today I have learned so much by watching just 2 of your videos. Thank you so much!
little nugget of value here... use the hand wheel going over the tricky slow seam part... ahhh!!! life changer right there :D thanks for making this vid
So true. I have to remember to use the hand wheel for actual sewing... it's right there and yet I always forget about it until I'm done sewing and need to lift the needle...
Never realized how important pinning properly made such a difference. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I'm 60 and totally new at sewing. No idea what I'm doing! Bought a sewing machine, probably the wrong one, to make masks for the family. Just moved up to pillowcases, oh boy. Can't even get that right, pinned material and for some reason it started puckering. Changed my thread, tension no luck. So so happy I've found you, been watching the past few evenings and you're so inspirational, knowledgeable and lovely young lady. Thank you for the tips I've received so far and can't wait to watch more. You're Great!!! Thank you!
New subscriber. Have been sewing for about 55 years. Currently learning how to quilt. I love your repurposing attitude. I made most of my children's clothes but never had good luck with my own,. I may give it another try.
I hope you do Patricia! 😀
As a newbie sewer and a perfectionist, Im loving learning the right way to do things from the start.
Before I start a new project I always check to see if you’ve made a video of any new techniques involved. I am really enjoying learning the process of sewing.
You give me confidence and I always feel confident and excited to put your techniques into practice.
Thank you
I thoroughly enjoy your videos and all the thought you put into the content and the beautiful presentation of yourself and your surroundings-and I sympathised with your wry apology for that pesky plane today-but it was kinda funny, too. My sewing buddy died last year and I’m pretty lonely in this space now, and somehow your videos give me comfort as well as inspiration. I also really enjoy reading the comments of other people, both new and experienced. After making three pairs of shorts from a pattern and still not getting the right fit I was ready to give up, but now I’m raring to go again 😂
these are things that you are showing me I know absolutely nothing about sewing just bought a new machine want to do some sewing I'm a man sewing my own stuff thanks for the tips
I've been sewing for 50 years and this was a helpful tutorial. Thanks. I am very glad I found your site.
Aww thanks so much!! I'm so flattered I could sow yoy somthing useful to your sewing! I don't thinkI we are ever done learning! I live finding new ways to do things too! 😗
Nice to know that there are others out there like me. A little long in the tooth but still learning.
I am totally new to sewing, haven't atrepted to make anything yet but love watching ur videos as I am picking up some great tips that are helping me feel much more confident! Thanks for sharing all this valuable info 😊
I have been sewing for about 65 years, took sewing class in junior and senior high school and was never shown this. My two two sewing teaching sat at their desks and marked our garment when it was done. Thanks so much for these videos. I am about to make a bathrobe after some years of giving up clothing.
Me too re bathrobe! This series has been such a help!!
Watching These videos is like sitting with a friend who shows you how to sew
I'm self thought, so I've always pinned from one side to another, and I always end up with excess fabric. From now on, I will be using this method. Many thanks for a great tip.
This will be perfect for you!! I hope it helps!
agreed, great video. thanks for making it!
Funny enough, the same principle works with non-fabric materials. Like when you are screwing on a machine cover, even a pressure cooker. Do two opposite ones, then the other direction, and gradually tighten them. Not just start one one, tighten it, and go all the way around. If it matters for metal and wood, how much more it matters for fabric!
Has it helped?
@@marshwetland3808 So so true!!!
I LOVE watching your videos. How you do this is fascinating! As a quilter, matching seams is "de rigueur" for me and misaligned seams are tantamount to original sin (kidding!) If Mom found I'd sewn an unmatched seam, she'd make me rip it apart and do it over again. So matching seams carefully is a now habit, whether quilting or garment-making and "easing" has been part of my vocabulary since I was about 10 yrs old - a VERY long time ago. Pinning ends first makes pinning any seam easier, as does breaking down long seams into smaller segments - especially if you're sewing elastic into a bathing suit or some such! However, I was also taught never to hold the fabric up while pinning, that it would cause shifting and those dreaded, evil little puckers or pleats. But it seems that both ways work, so the heck with it! I'm going to stop obsessing over keeping my fabric laying flat while pinning.
When matching seams, I like to put a pin vertically through all layers, fabric and open seam allowance, on both sides of the seam, in order to prevent shifting under the presser foot as well as to prevent the seam allowance from being pushed over the wrong way. Hate that! I've also been known as one who's anal enough (sigh, can't help it) to put a pin vertically into the seam itself as well. ONE CAVEAT - you need LONG thin pins for this, short ones create a buckle the fabric and can shift your matched seams, which of course is what you're trying to prevent in the first place! (Ask me how I know this
😉😁)
As a brand new sewist, this video is extremely helpful. It makes total sense to me, starting off from the largest bits & working down into smaller & smaller sections each time. Thank-you. 🙂
Been sewing for years and think I know everything. Then I watch you do something as simple as pinning and realize the things I don't know. Sewing is a never ending learning process.
My mom taught me how to sew as a child and passed after a short battle with cancer a couple years ago. While she was sick we started an apron but got only as far as cutting out the pattern pieces. I've recently picked up the project to finish but have trouble remembering all her instructions from 30 years ago so started satching your videos. I had a complete flashback to seeing my moms elbow on the fabric while she was pinning!! Thank you so much for these videos! It's helping me with sewing and memories! ❤
Ever since watching this video, I have been pinning this way. What a difference it has made. I never skip pinning now. Thank you Evelyn for teaching us something so simple but so effective
Now that is wonderful news!! 😃 I'm so glad it helped you!
Whenever I pin two pieces of non-stretchy fabric together and one piece is slightly longer than the other, I make small snips in the shorter piece (similar to what's done around curves) and this gives the shorter piece a little more give or stretch and it matches up and lays flat more easily during pinning.
The cross hair pin is a new idea.
It's totally brilliant!!!
The cross-hair pinning!! Oh my goodness, my mind is blown. :-) I think this will be very helpful in my quilting, as well as my garment sewing.
I’m a (newbie) quilter so I found the tip on cross pinning the seams to match them up very useful. Thanks!
OMG, I wish I would have viewed this 20 years ago! This was awesome!
Another long-handed lady here! I feel your pain in trying to find gloves that fit! But I can see that my long fingers will help when I'm pinning. I learn so much from you!
I like your tip on getting the seams to line up and not move. I'm definitely going to try that. My pinning should become more accurate now. Thanks for sharing. X
Try it and see how it goes!! It works a treat for me!!
Why you the best teacher ever? I’m adhd and hard of hearing! I’d do anything to gegg TV one on one in person classes with you!!! 🥺
This is my favorite video of yours so far!
I have struggled for years with my cloth bunching up at the end of a seam and have never seen this solution.
THANK YOU
I am a beginner, and feeling a bit overwhelmed.😳 Your pinning tips will be a great help and I will definitely be watching more of your videos! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
The accent just makes all the great content even better! 😂🥰 How could anyone not listen to all your great advice! And I need all the help I can get. Thank you!🙏
The pulling slightly is new to me and looks great
Your method is the same way I do it. No need to apologize for the airplane noise. We live in the flight path of an airport too. Love your videos! Loads of helpful tips, thank you. I found you 3 days ago and have been binge watching ever since.
I have looked in my sewing books and they never told me this. Not even in the trouble shooting guides about uneven outcomes of finished projects. Thanks 🥰
So glad you made this video! I am not a seamstress, but I'm going to attempt to sew a set of chairback covers. I've got my fabric cut out and pinned and now that I've watched this, I realize I'll have to RE-PIN all of them! But that's OK, because now I know that when I'm done, they'll look much better than they were going to look if I hadn't watched this! Thank you!
Hi Evelyn-
I would so love to see a video specifically on pinning and sewing a princess seam on a bodice front. It always seems a bit tricky!
This make so much sense. I do have one question: Do you cut your fabric off of the pattern piece or do you make a copy of the pattern and cut your fabric from that? Enjoy your videos. Stay healthy and be well!
I always make a copy, because I made adjustments to it!
@@Evelyn__Wood Thanks!
Very nice demonstration of distributing ease while pinning. I have had the worst time catching a full skirts fabric while I'm seeing to a waistband or bodice. I now pin a second line a few inches from the seam line to wrangle the width away from my sewing. Only if the fabric won't be marked of course. Maybe I'm just clumnsy?
It can me tricky, some people do 2 rows of gather stitch to help with this
Magnets can also be helpful as an extra set of hands. I have a steel ruler flush with my table top. You can use many other things as well. It can be a hinge or anything that is magnetic. I use a neodymium magnet wrapped in cloth to hold cloth I am pinning to that piece of metal. Its like a partner holding something for you. Neodymium magnets can hold a lot of weight, some of them can hold 50+ pounds. You can also get magnetic contraptions you can turn on and off called "Magswitch". I hope that is helpful for someone who is less physically able or someone working on a piece larger than their body can easily reach.
The “use your whole body”also applies to ripping or as I now copied from you “un-picking”. I repurpose thrift store drapes and tablecloths and often take out the seams for a little more usable fabric.
Ah! I needed this yesterday when I was trying to "ease" (so that's the word!) two pieces of fabric together! (I was creating a new style of sleeves on a high school costume because one sleeve had been shredded. It's a challenge for this new sewer.) Thank you for another insightful video. My husband suggested I attach a clamp to the edge of the table to help hold long pieces of fabric. It might help, but I haven't actually tried it yet. And finally, I'm so excited that your channel is growing, and I realize that it can make things like replies unrealistic. I'm glad you've started a newsletter to keep viewers further connected. Thanks!
Yes ease is the word!! The clamp sounds like such a man idea to come up with 🤣 Also if you have a seam with one layer looser than the other (because you've had to ease it in 😉) sew with the tighter layer ontop! As the layer on top tends to get 'pushed' more than the botton layer, I hour that makes sense! So glad you enjoyed the newsletter too and I'm so thankyou to have you in my 'gang' xx
I would never have thought the tight layer went on the top!!! Thanks!
I actually often, especially on more finnicky things first pin, then use something between a regular running stich and basting stich to see how everything fits and THEN sew. Yes, it takes more time but I found it helps.
When I am matching plaids or stripes I always baste first.
You need not apologize for the jet noise, it wasn't bad at all, and I must say that I think your pinning method is brilliant. I'll bet that something like a carpenter's vice would hold things so you could pin more effectively or the sewing bird tool. I don't know if they would work but it seems like it could. Thank for your tutorial it really is helpful.
Thanks again. I hace 2 machinws on the blink, so I am using my sewing time watching your videos!
Love this, my seams often do not match up......so this was very helpful!!!
Perfect!! I'm so glad!! You'll have to let me know how it works for you!
I will tag you in my next project!!
You are a genius! I wouldn’t have known that there was a skill to how to pin seams! I am gobsmacked! Thank you! I can’t wait to set my sleeves in correctly next time!
Oh yes you need this system on sleeves heads for sure!! I hope it works out for you!
Beautiful dress 😍
It’s a memory, my grandmother had labels in things she made me when I was little. ❤️
This is life changing advice, I was pinning all wrong! Thank you so much !
been sewing for 3 year and using my hips and basically anything besides my hands for pins is something i never thought of thanks!
I will be trying everything lol. My tip is using an ironing board when pinning my patterns to my fabric. I have a very large ironing board that I use for just pattern pinning. I use my straight pins and pin the pattern and fabric into the padded cover, securing it all to the table. I then measure my seam allowances and cut it out. The pieces don’t move and I get perfect results every time. If you have to move your fabric around to fit the whole pattern on the ironing board, or you have to do it in sections. I pin the pattern to the fabric, then use more pins to secure it to the table. Draw out my seam allowances before cutting. I sometimes need to unpin the fabric and pattern from the board and move the fabric to a new section, pin it to the board and draw out my seam allowances. When it comes to cutting I cut 1/3 of the pattern, then move the rest of the uncut pattern onto the board. I then cut out the rest.
Ooh wow!! You have really developed a special system there! Finding what works for you is key! 😗😗
Thank you 😊
Thank you for this video!! I now know why I have had puckers, inadvertent tucks, and wonky seams! I never realized that pinning was so important!
So important!!!! You'll be 10 times better at it next now! x
I just saw that this video is three years old, but I felt compelled to comment anyway. The pinning techniques are excellent and I use the ends to ends, notches to notches method myself. However, I am old and have difficulty manipulating my body to do the fabric easing. Instead, I will do a running stitch within the seam allowance, then pin in place. It is an extra step but is so much easier for me.
Timing is everything! I was just getting to the pinning part of a long skirt. This video helps immensely!
Set in sleeves sewn for 18 inch dolls were a nightmare, the pins are too large. I started using glue made for quilters and it saved my sanity. I love your videos. I'm learning so many new ways to sew. Thank you.
Cross hair pinning is an awesome tip I never would have thought of. But I thought I was the only one using my whole body. I was making curtains for a friend and had to spread the fabric out on the floor. I ended up using my knees to hold edges together. She laughed at me, but it worked! 😂
I use the heel of my hand to hold fabric flat on the table while my fingers stretch across to put in the pin. Your ideas are very good. Some people struggle to move both hands in different ways.
Now I know how to stop the puckering while pin and sew. Thank you!
I love your dress. I miss your tutorials when you transform old clothes to beautiful garments.
Crosshair pins are genius. Thank you!
im getting prepared to do my first skirt or dress im still not sure whats easier but im so glad i watched this to know how to pin stuff together you made it seem 10x easier
I love the way you matched up the seams n sides.
Thankyou Evelyn, excellent video, I will take on board all your tips. I have just started dressmaking again it has been 40years since I made a garment! I made a mockup (never did this before) of a top I plan to do and I am so glad I did as I made a few errors, it's a huge learning curve.
You are a fabulous teacher I have been totally inspired by you, loving all your videos.
O my gosh! I am a beginning sewist with a project in hand-the Bilbo Baggins bathrobe. One of my judge questions was how to pin!!! This video and the prior one have answered so many of my questions 😁.
I am rookie, all were very helpful. But the cross hair pinning was great. Thank u
I want to thank you so much, I learned to sew 46 years ago. Every time I watch one of your videos , I learn something new! A high school teacher who was a Nun started me out, now you are improving my skills and encouraging my love for sewing!!! I love the expression " The way you pin , is the way you sew.
Great tips!
I use a plastic Carpenter A-Clip (+/- 4 Inch) to 'pin' one corner to the table. So can keep the seams straight with one hand while I pin with the other.
I learn so much from your videos!! Next step: actually applying the knowledge...haha.... :)
Janet Pray has a video on Bluprint called Advanced Industry Techniques, she shared a technique involving using the feed dogs to ease two curves together. Combined with your technique, of starting the pinning from the ends and then focusing on seam lines, and notches with hers allowed me to target potential problem areas by easing with the feed dogs. I too wish I had learned this method when I began sewing years ago.
I learned something with the feed dog too. I like this better. Trying to pull fabic while it's on the machine isn't really good for the fabric or the machine, in my experience.
This is the second time I've watched this. I was a complete beginner the first time. Now, I've sewn a few garments and am better able to absorb and retain the details. It really is a reiterative process but hopefully soon I'll be able to do it without having to think about it too much or fumbling about with my fingers. I'm just doing my first knit garment and pinning correctly is more challenging but this helps. Thank you!
I always struggle with matching seams.. can't wait to try your method...
I hope it works for you!!
Cross- hair pinning is going to be a total game changer for me. This tip will take my garment making to a different level!!!!! Thank you for blessing us with your knowledge.
Thanks great ideas just started but worked with sheet metal. Many things you suggest are the same things in that medium.
Using your body and tensioning your fabric I knew but the cross pin I had not seen before! Thank you
Am thermal lining and relining some very old long curtains. So glad I found this video as my lining ended up about 20 cm shorter than my main fabric when I pinned them together yesterday! I feel very reassured after watching your video and will start again from both ends this time!! Wish me luck 🙏
This was very helpful. Had a stroke 5 yrs ago and sewing a challenge at times. Thank you so much for this tip/hint.
Have a blessed day.
Thanks for watching!
Great tips! Matching seams for facing has always been a huge challenge for me. I will try this next time. 😊
Thanks so much. Excellent!!😇😇
God bless😇😇
Cross pinning is something I’m definitely going to try
Hi from Missouri USA! I recently found your videos. I mostly make bags. I don't have the room to make clothing. I had to laugh at the planes interrupting you. I live very close to an Air Force base. Having a squadron of bombers fly over your house is always a lot of fun, especially when trying to record a video.
I've been sewing for a long time too. I've never heard of this I wish this would have been taught in high-school. I've been benging on your videos all morning. I'm working on a simple 2 piece bodice and I need help thanks for your video. I'm not understanding the instructions either lol.
Such great tips!
I just started sewing and this video is fantastic!! thank you so much!
Your welcome!
This is brilliant!!! And I love the dress you are wearing.
Love your dress 💞💞
That last tip you showed was very, very nice one! I've never thought to use two pins like that to really secure it in place as I'm super afraid of braking a needle by sewing over a pin lol. Very smart tho, I will try!
Great tips, I wish I had watched this before sewing in a coat lining 🙄. Cross hair pin is a great idea. Also the pinning along the seam line🤯
I learnt how to pin better by using breaking the pinning into smaller parts and making sure that the material is tightly fitted.
Thank you.
Practice , experience makes perfect!
I loved the crosshairs tip! I always try to match up seams and I do put a pin on that point, but sometimes it ends up not so perfect, so it must have shifted somehow. I'll give myself permission to use more than 1 pin on that point in future! Thanks for the great videos, and you have a wonderful style for doing video tutorials! greetings from Ireland
👏 pinning parallel is a technique I will use!
Yes, it took me a while to figure out to pin on the seam line. But I love the tip about the crosshair pinning. I can't wait to try it out. Thank you!
I’m going to try all these tips. Thanks so much.
Hi Evelyn! THANK YOU for teaching me these techniques! I the crosshairs pins on a top I made the other week and it was PERFECT! It is the Atlas Top by Stitch Witch patterns, and there is a centre front seam which joins 2 darts in the centre front. A very visible place to make mistakes (or to nail it!). I used your technique and it was perfect. Thank you!
A wonderfully helpful and straightforward explanation and video. Such simple techniques to employ for fabulous results. Thanks so much Evelyn 😊
This is great. I was never taught this.
Love the cross pin teaching!
Thank you so much for this great video, would of never thought of the cross hair pins.