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I was cutting fabric wrong for years and a ripped seam showed me
I always thought you could just lay a pattern piece on fabric any which way, as long as it fit. Last fall, I was making a skirt from a heavy wool and the side seam just tore open after one wear. My friend, who sews costumes for a theater in Chicago, took one look and said, 'You cut this with the grain going sideways, didn't you?' She showed me how to find the straight grain by pulling a thread and lining up the pattern arrows with it. That one ripped seam taught me that fabric has a direction, and cutting against it makes the garment weak and twisty. It seems so basic now, but I had no clue. What's a simple sewing rule you learned way later than you should have?
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harper69327d ago
My mom's old Singer finally made me realize you have to match the bobbin thread tension to the top thread.
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drew_bennett2427d ago
That's the kind of lesson you only learn the hard way. How many projects did you have to unpick before it clicked? My grandma's machine had the same quirk, and it would just eat fabric if you looked at it wrong.
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