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| a permanent hand stitch used to stitch a seam / to secure a seam so it doesn't unravel during the construction process |
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| Use a basting stitch to temporarily hold two pieces of fabric together or to gather fabric into ruffles. The stitch should be very long |
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| A hand stitch used through a folded edge. it is nearly invisible from the correct and wrong sides of the fabric. |
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| A small spool used on the sewing machine inside the bobbin case; approximately 50 or more yards of thread that creates the bottom stitch of a well-balanced stitch. |
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| A fold over edge or a separately applied piece of fabric used to create a tunnel within which to enclose drawstring ties or elastic |
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| a hand hem stitch that forms small x stitches |
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| Fabric edges topstitched to finish the raw edges of a seam or hem |
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| the process of joining a slightly larger garment piece to a smaller garment piece by evenly distributing the fullness along the seam where the pieces are joined |
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| A top stitch applied 1/16 inch away from the seamline |
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| A pattern marking that indicates how to place the pattern on the fabric |
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| The finished bottom edge of the garment |
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| Fabric that is used to support, reinforce, and give shape to garments |
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| A narrow, twice turned hem that maybe machine or hand stitch |
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| Small marks or clips placed on the outside edge of a sloper, pattern, or seamline to identify pattern and fabric pieces that need to be matched together |
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| The cut fabric edge with no finish |
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| a line of permanent stitching that joins two pieces of fabric together |
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| The space between the seamline and the edge of the pattern or the space between the seamline and the cut fabric edge |
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| On the face of the garment it is a line; on the wrong side of the garment it is a seam |
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| the firmly woven edges on both sides of a woven fabric |
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| The curved top section of the sleeve from the front to the back |
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| a quick and easy hand stitch used to stitch hems |
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| A single row of permanent stitches applied just inside the seamline to add reinforcement before the garment pieces are stitched together |
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| The balance of the upper and lower threads when stitching |
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| One or more rows of stitches stitched on the correct side of the garment. it can also be used to hold the facing to the garment in place of understitching |
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| To cut away access material with scissors |
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| A row of stitches sewn close to the semline of a facing or under collar edge to keep the seamline from rolling to the outside |
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| a fastening device that makes a complete closure by means of interlocking teeth coils |
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| clipping allows the seam to open so it can be stitching |
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| to stitch from the top of the garment to the bottom. |
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