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A fast and easy finishing technique for armscyes, necklines and hems is reinforcing them with a bias strip or bias tape. The biastape is available at Your local fabric-store, it comes to You pre- cut, fold and pressed and it´s available in many different colours and materials. A bias strip is cut on the true bias. This is the 45° angle of each fabric. Along the grainline fabric is stable and has it´s best tearing attribute, it can hardly be stretched out of style along this direction. Different to this is the bias, it can be stretched and shaped because it is an instable direction of each fabric.

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fabric, usual sewing equipment

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    Mar 23, 2011, 01.48 PMby freaky-philomeen

    hey meiissi, thanks for this perfect how-to. This part always scares me the most and I’m certainly trying your method! I don’t mind my dresses look ‘handmade’ but not if it’s the irregular armholes and unsteady necklines that make it look handmade!

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