Monday, June 9, 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.

While seaming is defined as the art of joining two edges of a line especially a cloth. So as to have a perfect piecing seam it is advisable that the quarter inch is maintained for consistency even when changing machines. The following are some of the procedures used in using piecing seams directive. The first thing that one needs to do is positioning the perfect piecing guide under the presser foot. The hole in the guide is where your needle goes through. Then the directive should be lined straight 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 discovery of this guides has been a great help to tailor because it helps in making perfect seams unlike in the old times where many tailors would approximate the seams, which in most cases led to poor results.




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