Invisible stitch (slip stitch, or ladder stitch, or blind hem stitch) is a very popular hand sewing stitch and knowing how to do invisible stitch by hand is really helpful as you can prolong the life of many things (garments, pillows, soft toys, even furniture) and even save money on alterations if you can easily repair holes in expensive leather products, for example.
In this tutorial, I will show you some tricks on how to thread a needle for hand sewing and embroidery and how to tie a knot.
It will be useful not only for people who are just learning to sew and don’t yet know how to thread a needle but also for people who are experienced in sewing and learned to thread a needle 30 years ago.
It seems so easy to thread a needle. You just push the thread right through the needle’s eye and that’s it. Yet you have to do it so often and it is so frustrating at times that many people, not only me, have come up with tricks, tools, and tips that help in the process.
If you want to learn how to sew, you need proper sewing tools. And quite a lot of them. So, get busy gathering all the necessities required for the good start – and the kingdom is yours.
Therefore, first step in the process of learning to sew is going shopping for sewing supplies. It can be exciting and fun, especially that you don’t need to spend an awful lot of money.
Sewing machines don’t cancel hand sewing. Some historical costumes, doll clothes, even modern garments can be sewn entirely by hand. By the way, couture clothes are often constructed by hand. Big fashion houses usually have technicians working on garments by hand on tables with no sewing machines. You can sew by hand in places where a sewing machine can’t reach, for example, when you sew an invisible zipper or small corners of pockets. And of course, basting is done mostly by hand. Some people even say that sewing by hand is much more relaxing than machine sewing.
Does your mom (or maybe grandma, sister, daughter, wife, friend) love to sew? Try to get her something nice and useful that has to do with sewing. There are so many really great gift ideas for people who sew.
Here are some of my favorites.
In this sewing tutorial I want to talk about different types of seams. A simple online search brings us so many types of sewing seams that sometimes it’s confusing to choose seams for a particular project, right? I don’t know about you but as for me I really need to know what is welt seam, or lapped seam, or princess seam, etc. and how to use them.
So I did some research and here is my tutorial on types of seams. Have in mind, it’s not an article for a textbook for students, it’s more like a practical guide for a hobby sewist.