Sewing Tips to Prevent Fabric Bunching
Leah RybakDescription
Here is a quick tip from sewer Leah Rybak on how to keep excess fabric from interfering with your sewing or embroidering project. Prevent bunching of bulky fabric by simply using a few safety pins to pin back that excess.
When embroidering your ready-made garment, like this one that's a little bit bulky, it's best to keep all this fabric away from the hoop. After all, we don't want to hoop or embroider any excess fabric except for what we want to be embroidered. So I set this quarter-length sleeve shirt, and I'm just pulling everything kind of out of the way, just to make sure that we can add some embellishment here on the bottom. I'm going to take just your standard safety pins, and I'm gonna kind of pin this fabric back a little bit, as you can see here. And that way, it'll stay out of the hoop once we start embroidering. We're gonna pin some more of it, just kind of over here, so it's kind of out of the way. And then, of course, once we start embroidering, we'll make sure to kind of sit with this, and make sure that it doesn't bunch up or bunch around the hoop or anything gets tangled up in the threads. We'll lower our foot for embroidery, and we'll be good to go.
Be cautious when sewing certain fabric, like satins, certain light knits, vintage fabrics, etc. Safety pins have a larger diameter than straight pins and some will leave permanent holes in satins, and vintage acetate, vinyl, leather and being sharp can cause a very fine knit t have a tiny hole that unravels and ruins your project. my suggestion with these delicate fabrics is just to roll them up out of the way, or stitch a few stitches at a time checking to make sure you haven't gone over the wrong part. I have also used quilting pins which are smaller in diameter and have a bend that makes it easier, but still, not on delicate fabrics.
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