![]() Matching these intersections can sometimes be tricky. You always have a little cross wherever 2 or more seams come together. This is one of my favorite ways to sew without pins. Use pinch/piano hands and the feed dogs will do the work. Match up the notches, put the curvy side against the feed dogs. Instead of using 18,000 pins to ease that curvy side front into the center front, sew with the curved edge on the bottom. The same thing is true of a princess seam. Why–because that longer bit makes room for the curve of your arm. If you measure a sleeve cap, it’s actually longer than the armhole. Sometimes you have to ease longer edges into shorter ones. For any fabric that needs a little more finesse, this is your go-to. Your left hand fingers really can turn the fabric like a steering wheel. This version is awesome for curved seams and more delicate fabrics. The goal is still to move both hands at the same rate towards the back. Use your left hand fingers to press very gently towards the back. If you’ve ever played piano, that’s what your left hand should look and feel like.Īs the fabric moves under the presser foot, use your right hand fingers to keep the edges even. Lightly place them on the left side of the fabric. Just like chopping vegĬurve your fingertips and spread them wide on your left hand. Pinch the fabric in your right hand and turn the pinched bit towards the presser foot. You will still move both hands towards the back, but it’s a little different. For this pinless sewing variation, you still have both hands on the fabric. Pinch hand/piano hand is similar to taut sewing. For curved seams and more delicate fabrics, I like this next one: Pinch hand, piano hand This works great for long seams, especially straighter seams. Your goal is NOT to pull but to move your hands evenly. As the fabric goes under the presser foot, move your hands at the same rate towards the back. To sew taut, you hold one hand at the back of your machine and one at the front. Taut sewing means that you’re holding the fabric taut with your hands as it goes through the machine. Taut sewing is my favorite strategy for going pinless. Taut sewing Hand in front + hand behind =taut sewing Here are the things that I’ve found to be most useful. So how do you go about sewing without pins? What do you do instead of using pins. Sewing pins how to#This will even out the pinning problem and the uneven sewing of the feed dogs.įlipping and extra pinning does work really well, but keep reading, and I’ll show you how to get it right without either. In other words, halfway through a seam, turn over the seam so your bottom fabric is now the top. You can also fight against this by flipping the way you’re sewing the seam halfway through. After a couple of tries, I finally nailed each match with a combo of taut sewing and basting. Over the massive 7′ length of each seam, the pinned chevrons got further and further off from each other. This made me about lose my mind one day matching chevrons for the curtains in my laundry area. You can use even MORE pins (think about every inch) to help fix this. The same seam that was matching up at the top is now way off at the bottom. Those little shifts can travel right on down the seam. So when you put one in and take it out, the fabric can shift ever so slightly. Pins aren’t flat, and fabric may not be taut between pins. When you use pins you can create little bubbles in the seam. If you’ve ever sewn a seam and ended up with one side mysteriously 1″ longer than the other, you know this problem. Combine that with the race car speeds that sergers move and you’re one step from: But some heavy fabrics it’s hard to see where your pins are. You might think you can stop and take out every single pin. If you’re not lucky, you might mess up your machine’s timing. If you’re lucky, you can fish it out with a magnet. Tiny shards of needle go down somewhere in the nether regions of your machine. A lot of people will do it sometimes to help cut down on the time factor when sewing with pins. More pins = potential danger to you or your machine Still, whether through clumsiness or something else, my hands always find the doggone pins. They’re points are smaller and you can even iron over them. I later learned about finer glass head pins. The more pins you use, the more chance you have of unintentionally stabbing yourself.ĭid I mention that I used to use honking quilting pins when I was a beginner? Their jumbo points inflicted a whole lotta damage on my hands. Even if you sewed with half the number of pins you use, you’d be saving massive time. Those 18 pins a seam once translated into a good 6 hours to make a simple pair of pajama pants. Stop sewing when you get close to the pinĮach one of these steps is pretty quick, but multiply that out for every pin, in every pattern piece, for every seam, and we’re talking major time. ![]()
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