Top-Stitching Tips for Sewing
Aurora SisnerosDescription
Aurora Sisneros reveals her special tricks for top stitching. Top stitching is an important finishing move that is used for almost every sewing project. Find out how beneficial these helpful tips and techniques really are. Enhance your sewing projects with these fun and easy tricks Aurora provides you.
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Topstitching is a very important finishing move in almost every sewing project that you do. On top of the fact that it's a finishing move, it's also on the outside of your project, usually, which means other people can see it. So I'm always very self-conscious about the way my topstitching looks. I'm going to show you a little trick today about topstitching. Normally, what folks like to do is use their zipper foot for topstitching. So I'm going to topstitch this, but I'm going to slide it under here. And as I lower my zipper foot, you'll notice it kind of moves to the side. It's a little wobbly. It doesn't really lay nice and flat. Plus, it's very thin. You only have this middle part that's really touching. And even this part, because this part over here seems to be in the air a little bit. There's a very good chance that your fabric is going to separate, like this, as you're sewing, because you don't have good pressure pressing down on the foot. So instead of using your fiddly zipper foot, or if you don't have a zipper foot because your machine didn't come with one, it's okay. You can use your regular foot, which, as I lower down on top, you can see that it is a much more even feed. Now, you'll notice that my needle is not anywhere close to the edge of my fabric. So I am just going to simply move my needle position over as far as it will go, line up the edge of my foot with the edge of my fabric. And then as I sew down it, you can see how close to the edge I'm getting. And I haven't had to change my foot to my zipper foot. And you'll notice that I get a very beautiful, nice, even topstitch without having to use my zipper foot.
How strange. I would never dream of using the zipper foot for this - and know absolutely no one who does!
Eager to see your tips on top stitching.
great tip to know
I had no idea about using a zipper foot for top stitching. I've always used the general foot or my Pfaff has the fancy stitch stitch foot without IDT. I find that top stitching comes out better when I do not use the IDT feature on my Pfaff.
I wish I had known of this tip sooner :/ I recently finished a project that had 3 lines of top stitching and really struggled keeping them straight and evenly spaced. Is there a tip for 3 lines?
That was an awesome tip.