![]() ![]() Remember, the point is to keep the fabric "in place" so you don't want your stitches too far apart or it will just separate and slide around. ![]() ![]() Hand-basting isn't used very often, but it's really quite simple. You don't have to knot your thread at the end, and you just do about a half-inch "up and down" stitch joining the two+ pieces of fabric together in a straight line. Hand-basting is just, as my mom put it, a "long, lazy stitch" with a hand-needle. The pattern will indicate if you are going to use a non-standard seam allowance. Since the standard seam allowance is ⅝" (15mm), you might need to do your baste stitch at ⅜". Make sure you double-check the seam allowance (the amount in from the fabric's edge). Sometimes baste stitches remain in permanently, but a baste stitch should always be able to be pulled out without a lot of effort (or even a seam-ripper). The elements of thread-basting, again, is that you should be able to remove the seam easily. You'll get pretty good at eyeballing ⅝" as you do this.Īt times a pattern will specifically tell you to baste two or more pieces together using a baste stitch. Use your seam gauge to measure ⅝"/15mm (or whatever the pattern says is the seam allowance for this stitch) and put your pins in there. Don't put your pins in at the edge of the fabric, or too far in, as these will increase the likelihood of the fabric shifting about. You want the pins to be in at roughly the same place that you will be doing the seam.(Note, this is only for it your have the pins parallel with the raw edge as I do, if you do the pins so that they are pointed toward the raw edge, you won't have to worry as much about this). If you have the pins put in so that the head of the pin is at the "top" of the fabric going in, you won't be able to smoothly pull them out as you go. ![]() You want the pins to be put in so that as you're sewing, you can pull the pins out from below as the pin approaches the sewing machine needle. Sewing machines are set up so that you will be sewing the seam on the right, with the extra fabric on your left, and the fabric will move front-to-back.
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