Lessons
Introduction & Overview of Skillset
01:07 2Pattern Envelope Overview
07:18 3Measuring Your Body
01:59 4Cutting out the Pattern
04:09 5Understanding Fabric Anatomy
02:29 6Cutting out the Fabric
16:39 7Fusing the Interfacing
02:40 8Sewing the Pockets
12:03Lesson Info
Fusing the Interfacing
So we only have one more prep step to do before we can start where they're sewing and that isf using the interfacing to the front waistband. So I've got my friend waistband here, and I've got my interfacing with the notches all cut out are interfacing is looking exactly like fabric it's woven just like fabricas. And then on one side, it's got these glue dots. You can definitely feel them there rough, and the side with no blue dots is nice and smooth like fabric, so because we're dealing with glue, I want to protect my earning board and my iron. I'm going to use something called a press cloth. This could be any scrap of cotton fabric that you have laying around. I'm going to smooth it out on my ironing board. I don't want this glue to get on anything other than what I intended to get on, so I'm gonna open up my waistband piece so that the wrong side is facing up in me and I can give it a quick press to smooth out that fold in the center there, and then I'm going to take my interfacing a...
nd lined it up so it matches so the glue side facing down, lining up those notches. If you have a little teeny bit of interfacing hanging out over the edge of your waistband, it's not going to hurt anything, but if you've got a lot, you can grab your scissors and trim it off. So just like that, and then I'm going to take this edge of my press cloth and folded over. Sometimes glue will come through, and we don't want to get that on our iron, and then I'm going to be pressing so pressing is different from ironing. Ironing is when you go back and forth to get creases out of something and pressing is when you just take the iron and press it straight down on your fabric, we're going to hold it for about ten seconds to really bond that glue to our fabric, and then I'm gonna lift up an overlap a little bit and hold it again for ten seconds, all the way down to the other side of my waistband. I really want to make this a good, firm bond because I don't want it to start coming apart as I'm sewing and you can check it to make sure it's glued, trying to lift up a corner on this looks nice and firm to me way have our waistband interfaced, and now we can start to set up our sewing machine and get going.
Class Materials
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