Showing posts with label Finishing Seams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finishing Seams. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 April 2012

Finishing Seams

Finishing seams is necessary in order to increase the durability of cloths and make them look tidy from inside. A finished seam prevents fraying of your fabrics and gives it a professional look.There are quite a few ways to finish your seams.


Prinked Seam:

Prinking sheers make a lovely pattern and also useful for finishing seams. A pinked seam finish is a simple but only useful for fabric that don’t easily fray. 




Serged Seam:

Overlocking is the most fastest way to finish seams, they sew, trim and finish seams at the same time. Overlocking machines/sergers are really useful but can be quite expensive. 





Zig Zag Seam:
The other option is to try finishing it with Zig Zag Sticth which gives quite a good results if done correctly. 


Zig Zag Seam Finish
Zig Zag Seam Finish (one side)

Zig Zag Seam Finish
Zig Zag Seam Finish (Open)



Flat Fell Seam:


French Seam:

coming soon..


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