A few tricks and tricks that will help to make accurate corners when sewing.
Everyone who sews will agree: beautiful and neat corners - this is important! It’s important when we sew a pillowcase for the pillow, and we want the corners to look beautiful, and even more important if, for example, the corners of the shirt collar, which should look perfect. The tips and life hacks below will help to make different beautiful corners.
Lifehack 1: for right angles
This life hack will help beginners or will be useful when you need to sew several items with right angles, for example, a set of decorative pillowcases.
Make a template with a cutout at a right angle, as shown in the photo - for example, a sheet in a cage will do. Lower the needle, place the template, as shown in the photo, so that the distance from the needle down and to the right of the template is the same and equals the desired allowance for the seams, and secure with masking tape or something similar. When you will sew the stitch, you will need to stop when the lower edge of the fabric matches the line of the pattern, lower the needle, raise the foot, rotate the fabric, lower the foot and continue stitching.
We sew on paper: how to stitch a corner
Lifehack 2: for sharp corners
This life hack will help to make beautiful sharp corners, for example, on the shirt collar.It often happens that after eversion at the end of such a corner, a thickening forms, which does not look very beautiful.
To prevent this from happening, laying the line, focus on the sample on the left (the sample on the right is for comparison). Stop the line, not reaching an angle of 1-2 mm, and make one stitch, connecting the sides of the corner, as if rounding it a bit.
Then cut the allowances: along the sides - obliquely, the allowance opposite the corner - perpendicularly.
Here are the details inverted: the left sample has no thickening at the tip, since the perpendicular stitch gave a space where the allowances were looser.
Another way - in this master class:
The secret of the sharp corner at the collars
Lifehack 3: for right angles
Life hack 2 can also be used for right angles, especially when sewing from dense materials. For example, if you sew a pillowcase made of thick cotton for a decorative pillow. Before reaching an angle of 2 mm, rotate the work 45 degrees, make 2 stitches obliquely, then rotate the work and continue the stitch on the perpendicular side.
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Lifehack 4: for a perfectly fitting pillowcase
We already talked about this life hack. It will help to make a perfectly fitting pillowcase.
So that the corners of the pillowcase do not stick out, you need to round them. More details in this master class:
Life hack: how to sew a perfectly fitting pillowcase on a pillow
Life hack 5: what is and is not worth turning corners
The eversion peg is a convenient fixture to twist and straighten a corner.But it happens that it is not at hand or the configuration of the existing pegs is not suitable for the corner. Then, improvised items can go into business, some of which are suitable for this process, while others are not.
Than NOT worth turning corners:
- spokes with sharp tips;
- scissors;
- a scalpel for artwork or the end of a breadboard knife;
- and generally any sharp object that could damage the material or seam.
What (in addition to the peg) you can twist the corners:
- a knitting needle with a blunt rounded end;
- a wooden chopstick;
- a ruler with a rounded end or a ruler-corner.
You can also sharpen the thick end of the chopstick with a sharp knife and clean it with emery or an unnecessary nail file: you get a mini-peg for working with small details.
Photo: thesprucecrafts.com, batchmens.com, Sewaholic, Prym, craftsy.com, Natalya Pykhova
Idea: Ties at the corners of a blanket
Idea: a loop in the corner for a kitchen towel
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