When sewing clothes together, sometimes sewers will use hand-stitch to stitch the pieces together first.This can make it easier to check all the pieces are matched correctly, before machine sewing them.
See below videos and top-tips on how to hand-sew:
How to Knot Thread into Fabric
How to Stitch Running Stitch
Running stitch also known as basting and tailor-tacking stitch. Can be used to loosely stitch fabric together. The video below will show you how to do this.
How to Stitch Back-stitch
How to Un-pick Thread
Hand-stitching Clothes Together
Hand-stitching is relaxing and you can’t hand-sew clothes together, without the use of a sewing machine. It does take longer, yet it is the most sustainable way to make clothes.
To sew clothes together you only need to know two stitches.
- Back-stitch – To sew seams and top stitch.
- Blanket stitch – Over-locking edges of fabric.
How to Back-stitch
For a video demonstration see: How to Back-stitch.
- To back stitch simply sew a stitch.
- Then bring the needle up through the fabric.
- At the end of where you want the next stitch to be.
- Then re-enter the fabric through the end of the first stitch.
- Keep repeating, until you have a line of stitches.
How to Blanket-stitch
For a video demonstration see: Blanket-stitch.
- Sew a stitch, yet before pulling all the tread through create a loop.
- Put the needle through the loop, before pulling tight.
- This will make the thread wrap around the edge of the fabric.
- Repeat this over and over again, until the edge of the fabric is sealed.