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Hi, cool idea for a thread. I studied costume construction for a few years at university so this is right up my alley.dopaMEAN posted:Oh, and what is basting exactly? I keep thinking it's stitching it, but that doesn't make sense. I might try my hand at pinning my sweater together to get a nice fit on it. Yes, basting is stitching, using large stitches that are easy to rip out. You can do it either by hand, or by using the longest stitch setting on your sewing machine. Basting allows for more precision than just pinning, and it enables you to do sort of a trial run--if you baste a seam, and you don't like it and want to take it out, it takes a lot less time to rip out long stitches than short stitches. Squirrelypoo, that dress fits you beautifully. I think straight-stitching before hand-hemming might have added a bit of that bulk--I personally would have used Elanore McMantis' method, or alternately you could fold it up half an inch and press, then another inch or so in order to hide the raw edges, press again just on the crease, and hand-hem.
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