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Posted by Joy Beeson on January 8, 2008, 1:34 pm
Tangent to the main discussion:
When sewing a dart, back-tacking at the point puts a lump exactly
where you don't want one.
So after stitching off the point of a dart, keep stitching for an inch
or so, keeping the fold of the fabric under half the foot, but missing
it with the needle. This twists the two threads together into a cord.
When you break off, leave enough thread to tie into a knot. Tie a
half-hitch in the thread ends, then put a pin through the knot into
the point of the dart. Tighten the knot around the pin, so that it
ends up right against the point of the dart. Trim the ends to half an
inch. The half inch will be neatly twisted into a cord. (But from
the right side, it really doesn't matter how the ends look.)
One way to tie a half hitch: form the twisted cord into a loop near
the point of the dart, with the thread ends passing under the loop.
Use a pin to pull the ends up through the loop. Tighten around the
pin.
Joy Beeson
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joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ -- sewing
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
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Posted by Pogonip on January 8, 2008, 5:49 pm
Joy Beeson wrote:
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> Tangent to the main discussion:
>
> When sewing a dart, back-tacking at the point puts a lump exactly
> where you don't want one.
>
> So after stitching off the point of a dart, keep stitching for an inch
> or so, keeping the fold of the fabric under half the foot, but missing
> it with the needle. This twists the two threads together into a cord.
> When you break off, leave enough thread to tie into a knot. Tie a
> half-hitch in the thread ends, then put a pin through the knot into
> the point of the dart. Tighten the knot around the pin, so that it
> ends up right against the point of the dart. Trim the ends to half an
> inch. The half inch will be neatly twisted into a cord. (But from
> the right side, it really doesn't matter how the ends look.)
>
> One way to tie a half hitch: form the twisted cord into a loop near
> the point of the dart, with the thread ends passing under the loop.
> Use a pin to pull the ends up through the loop. Tighten around the
> pin.
>
> Joy Beeson
One of the very few good points about the Singer Touch & Swear machines
was that with the wind-in-place bobbin, you can wind a small amount of
thread, start sewing at the point of a dart, and end in the seam
allowance leaving no threads, no knots, at the point.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by Joy Beeson on January 8, 2008, 10:23 pm
wrote:
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> One of the very few good points about the Singer Touch & Swear machines
> was that with the wind-in-place bobbin, you can wind a small amount of
> thread, start sewing at the point of a dart, and end in the seam
> allowance leaving no threads, no knots, at the point.
If it's important enough, any machine can do that -- tie the bobbin
thread to the needle thread, pull it back through the machine until
you can stitch the whole dart without getting the knot into the
tension disks. For a short dart, you can pull the knot back to just
after the tension disks; if I recall correctly, as long as it doesn't
reach the needle you won't have any problem.
But I wouldn't do that unless the dart was going to end up on the
right side; a start is never quite so smooth as a finish.
Joy Beeson
--
joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ -- sewing
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
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>
> When sewing a dart, back-tacking at the point puts a lump exactly
> where you don't want one.
>
> So after stitching off the point of a dart, keep stitching for an inch
> or so, keeping the fold of the fabric under half the foot, but missing
> it with the needle. This twists the two threads together into a cord.
> When you break off, leave enough thread to tie into a knot. Tie a
> half-hitch in the thread ends, then put a pin through the knot into
> the point of the dart. Tighten the knot around the pin, so that it
> ends up right against the point of the dart. Trim the ends to half an
> inch. The half inch will be neatly twisted into a cord. (But from
> the right side, it really doesn't matter how the ends look.)
>
> One way to tie a half hitch: form the twisted cord into a loop near
> the point of the dart, with the thread ends passing under the loop.
> Use a pin to pull the ends up through the loop. Tighten around the
> pin.
>
> Joy Beeson