- Place the right side of the fabric facing you
- Position your <disclothed> paris textile label (provided in your kit) on your fabric - more or less in the middle
⚠️ Don't make a mistake when positioning your label! The white part (without the logo) must be on the edge side, and not the other way around:
- Fold your rectangle lengthwise, right sides together and aligning the 2 layers of fabric edge to edge, so as to cover your label < disclothed > paris
- Pin all the way to hold everything in place
We will now stitch our fabric all the way through to create a kind of "tube." We will purposely leave a little space at the beginning and end of the stitching (you will quickly understand why):
- Set the straight stitch on your machine and test it on a scrap piece.
💡 The settings on your machine are used to obtain a nice stitch: it should be neither too tight (at the risk of making your fabric warp), nor too loose (unattractive and not very solid)
- Place your fabric under your presser foot, 0.7 cm from the edge - this is the mark that runs along the presser foot
💡 In fact, we indicated above that our seam allowances are 0.7 cm for this model: this means that you must sew your scrunchy < 90's > 0.7 cm from the edge of the fabric
❓ What is a seam allowance? When you join two pieces of fabric together, 1 cm from the edge for example, you end up with a margin of 1 cm between the edge of your fabric and your stitching. This is called the "seam allowance" - also called "seam allowance":
- So, straight stitch all the way, 0.7 cm from the edge and leaving the space we have planned at the beginning and end of our tube: we start with a backstitch, we sew all the way trying to sew as straight as possible, and we don't forget the backstitch at the end as well. Cut the excess threads.
❓ What is a backstitch? A backstitch is basically like tying a knot when sewing by hand. Backstitching is done every time (with some exceptions) you start and finish a stitch, to secure the seam.
❓ How to make a backstitch? To make a backstitch, simply machine-stitch your fabric normally over 3 stitches, then reverse over these same 3 stitches before continuing your stitching forward. When you reach the end of the stitching, we make another 3 stitches backward to make the final backstitch. Going over these 3 stitches on the machine allows us to tie the threads together and therefore secure our seam.
Here's what you get:
