Sewing

Sewing

The craft of stitching fabrics together to make cloths or other textile objects.

Industry: Hobbies; Textiles

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foot pedal

Hobbies; Sewing

The part of a sewing machine that controls the speed at which the needle enters the fabric. It is controlled by the foot of the machinist and usually attaches to the machine via a lead.

free machine stitching

Hobbies; Sewing

This means to drop the feed dogs or apply a darning plate then attach a darning foot. Doing this allow you to freely move your project in any direction creating your own free hand design.

With wrong sides together stitch your seam, turn wrong sides out (i.e. right sides together), press (optional) and restitch the seam, using a slightly larger seam allowance. This results in a neat ...

frogging

Hobbies; Sewing

The art of unpicking. Name attributed to the croaking sounds of frogs croaking ie rip-it, rip-it.

fusible fleece

Hobbies; Sewing

An iron on interfacing made from soft, lightweight synthetic material. One side has an adhesive surface that when ironed bonds to other materials. Used to give volume and structure to projects such ...

fussy cut

Hobbies; Sewing

A method of cutting shapes out of printed fabric which puts a motif or design in a particular place on your shape. For example, if you are working on a patchwork quilt made up of squares and you want ...

gather

Hobbies; Sewing

Gathering is a technique for shortening the length of a strip of fabric so that the longer piece can be attached to a shorter piece. It is commonly used in clothing to manage fullness, as when a full ...