![]() ![]() It’s also used when hand sewing french seams.įabric sewn on with the fell stitch is able to move somewhat making it a great stitch for installing linings (Up to now I’ve always used a slip stitch for linings but now I know a fell stitch is stronger and, hey, it’s just as easy). It’s used to sew a layer of fabric, usually folded, onto another layer of fabric without being too visible, for instance finishing collars, waistbands, and sleeves, sewing lace as an applique, or attaching ribbon and trims. This stitch also called the applique stitch, is quick to do, flexible and stronger than the slip stitch. Repeat the stitch by taking up a couple of threads of the garment fabric on the needle and traveling through the fold between stitches. Insert the needle back into the fold at the top of the fold.Ĭarry the needle to the left about ¼” through the fold. Bring the needle out of the fold on the fold’s edge Put the needle down into the garment fabric at the same level as the fold and pick up a couple of threads of the fabric onto the needle, right to left. Bring the needle up through the fold on the far right of your sewing area so that the knot is in the crease of the fold. ![]() Knot your thread and choose a needle thickness that corresponds to your fabric weight. However, the sewing thread will show on the outside but only very slightly so match your thread or go a shade darker if you can’t match exactly for truly invisible stitches. Because the traveling thread is sandwiched in the fold for most of the seam it is not seen from either side of the garment. The slip stitch gets it name from the way the needle “slips” into and travels along the fold of the fabric. Slip stitch is a popular stitch frequently used for hems but useful any time you need an “invisible” seam, for instance, making a rolled hem on delicate or sheer fabric and for attaching bias binding to the inside of a neckline when you don’t want the casual look of machine topstitching. Invite them in for 15 minutes and one day when you’re sewing a garment and the pattern instructions say to “machine stitch” you will recall that meeting and you will think, “I know a better way.”Īnd all you’ll have to do is call, Slip or Fell, and they will be with you in an instant for they are both eager to help. Yet both are worth getting to know better. At first, they may appear to be identical but if you give them a moment more of your attention you will notice they’re not not in looks, not in instruction and not in purpose. This is a tale of two hand stitches, the Slip Stitch and its twin the Fell Stitch. Although you could sew most garments entirely by machine there are many times and many construction techniques that you could sew more accurately, with more beautiful results, and maybe, in the long run, sew it even faster, if you turned off your sewing machine and stitched by hand. ![]()
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