Sewing and Design Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, you’ll perfect the finishing touches for your neckline and armholes by adding facings. With a bit of precision, you’ll stitch, clip, and topstitch your facings to create crisp, polished edges. Then, you’ll use zigzag stitching to neaten up raw edges, ensuring that your garment looks as good on the inside as it does on the outside. Finally, you’ll learn to baste the back facings, setting everything up for the zipper insertion in the next lesson!”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Preparing the Facing - Part 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sewing and Design Specialization. Master sewing techniques: from using a sewing machine to creating garments like dresses, trousers, peplum tops, and backpacks.

Partial transcription of the video

“So as you're sewing, make sure you keep opening that seam. Open the seam and with your fingers feel underneath to make sure that the seam is on the side of the facing and not on the side of the actual garment. So this is now perfectly topstitched and we're going to repeat the same process for the armhole. So you can go ahead and press this so it sits in place well. So you can see the neckline is now clean and you've got a very nice straight edge there for the neckline. We're going to repeat for the armhole. So turn it out so that the facing and the embossed piece are right sides facing agai...”

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Course summary for: Sewing and Design Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (40)
• 8781 students
• 11 units
• 83 lessons (15h 27m)
• 36 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Design, Fashion

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Botanical Illustration, DIY, Embroidery, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Pattern Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing, Textile Design, Upcycling