Burda Style For people who sew

just straight edge. Any ideas

Jul 19, 2011, 09.42 PM by teresa5562

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  Jul 26, 2011, 10.04 AMby sabrina

  You could use pulled thread work and drawn thread work. You could scallop the edges. If you have an eyelet stitch on your sewing machine (or the patience to do it by hand) you could put a line of eyelets and then maybe thread them. You could also put beads on your hem. Or you could couch a line of cord to the hem. If your sewing machine has any decorative stitches you could layer them to create new stitches, e.g. one curvy line over another. Or a row of straight stitching, then a row of decorative stitching (or just zigzag) and then another row of straight stitching.

  Does your fabric suggest any particular theme, e.g. nautical, regency period, 60s, Roman?

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    Jul 27, 2011, 12.14 PMby teresa5562

    Thanks but I meant styles like uneven, pointed front, back, etc. There just isn’t any patterns available on here that are different. Have you seen any?

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  Jul 27, 2011, 12.23 AMby 20beverly08

  for a nice, easy picot edge-look hem, I fold over my hems twice (1/4 inch) each and press in between. then I use the blind hem stitch on my machine and place the presser foot just on the outer right edge so the blind hem part of the stitch ‘catches’ and gives that picot edge-look. If your machine does not have the blind hem stitch option, use the zig zag stitch and this makes a nice puffy picot edge-look hem also.
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  Jul 27, 2011, 01.34 AMby caiti-cat

  My favourite technique for a rugged or a modern look is to actually melt the bottom edge. This works best with a long lighter to keep any tender fingers not on fire. Be careful though! Use this technique OUTSIDE and never on a windy day. You don’t want to melt the whole project or burn down the house. This will only work on synthetic fibres. So cotton, silk and wool are not suitable. Polyester works wonders, especially satin. With practise, you can get a nice clean edge or an oddly shaped edge, depending on the look you want.
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  Jul 28, 2011, 08.21 AMby 20beverly08

  there’s a lot of vintage apron ‘retro’ remake apron patterns from McCalls, Simplicity, and Butterick with scalloped edges, pointed edges, and even prairie points (commonly used in quilting for three dimensional stars). I use a coffee cup as my curve and mark it along the bottom hem and then cut and hand baste the scallops into place. Then press, and sew with a 10-12 stitches per inch on the machine for a nice finished edge. Have to do a lot of clipping corners for the scallops, but the nice edge is worth it.

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    Jul 28, 2011, 11.29 AMby teresa5562

    Oh I never would have thought of that, I may try it on a dress I am getting ready to finish today. Thank you