How To Use Bias Tape On Neckline

Practise y'all have garments you lot've either fabricated or bought that have facings? How do you lot like them? Some of mine seem to work well, others are too big, floppy, irritating, show through to the right side, or just continue getting in the fashion somehow. And then how practice you finish the edge of a neckline or armhole without facings or doing a full lining?

Accept you come across sewing patterns that tell y'all to merely fold over the raw edge to the within and stitch in identify, either on the neckline or armhole? That's fine with knit fabrics that stretch, just on wovens – really! How is that going to work then, when you take to turn the shorter edge in and make it prevarication flat against a longer edge? Well, I tin tell you that it just doesn't work and I've concluded upward with all sorts of puckering and nastiness.

This is where the bias tape facing can exist a real solution. Information technology's not all big and floppy or loose like the traditional facing, yet information technology provides a very neat and polish terminate and makes that raw edge easy to turn in. Y'all tin can do it in a matching self-made bias tape or utilise a commercial or contrast tape. Information technology's upward to you lot.

Let'due south take a look.

How to sew a bias facing for a neckline.

I didn't have a current project to work on, then I cutting a practice piece of fabric to stand for a neckline to exist finished. I as well used a couple of very different fabrics and a white thread and so yous can run into where I am working, but y'all might bind with the aforementioned textile and a matching thread. I drew on an approximation of my neckline seam line using a disappearing marking.

TIP: Apply a soft and fine fabric that moves easily for your binding. In this instance, I was using some scraps and the binding fabric I chose was too thick really and didn't concord a crease. Suggested fabrics, satin, charmeuse, cotton, viscose, rayon, etc

How to add a bias tape binding to a neckline or armhole to finish the raw edge. Not too difficult and gives a super-smart finish.

Commencement measure your neckline, along the seam line and add on about 4-6 inches to requite yourself something to work with. And so you lot'll need a piece of bias bounden. Y'all tin can buy this in a plain contrasting fabric, or you tin make your own using the textile of your garment. Accept a wait at these tutorials on how to make your ain bias tape.

Easy to follow steps for making continuous bias binding tape from a square of fabric. No more fiddly sewing strips together.

Continuous bias binding calculator. Work out how much you will get from a square, or what size square you will need.

Fold your tape in half along the length and press, without stretching information technology out of shape. This is 'single-fold' bias record. This is what we will use effectually the neckline and armhole edges in place of a total facing. I'm using a 2-inch strip folded in half to make 1-inch single fold tape.

Stay-sew together the bend, neckline or armhole. Normal stitch length, merely inside the 1/ii inch seam line. This will assist to stop the bend stretching out as you work on it. Practise handle your fabric advisedly and avert letting it hang or these curved edges can stretch and then getting a smooth terminate will exist much harder.

Start and end at center dorsum, leave a tail, a couple of inches or and so from the center.

Keep the raw edge of bounden even with the raw edge of the neckline. Sew halfway across the width of the tape, taking a half-inch of tape on either side of the stitch line. Stitch slowly and carefully around the bend, stopping where you demand to, to lift the presser foot and reposition the tape. Don't stretch the bias as you sew, just exercise concentrate of getting the cloth under the presser human foot flat, and don't worry if information technology creates some pocket-sized ripples on the inside of the bend, that's fine.

Annotation – The fabric should exist flat forth the stitching/seam line and tin can ripple a bit on the within. If you lot follow the raw edges, keeping these flat, when yous plough later on, the bounden could be a little also tight.

Arrive back ii inches from center, join the tape, cut and press seam open up. Finish sewing the binding in place between the areas where yous started and finished the stitching. On an armhole, offset and finish at the underarm seam.

Trim back through all layers half the width of the seam allowance. Clip around the curves to help your mini-facing to prevarication flat.

Printing all layers upwards towards the facing.

Plough the facing now towards the inside, into the neckline, and press once again. Permit the facing to turn nearly 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch inside the seam line so that information technology won't exist visible from the outside in one case sewn. Steam and pressing is your friend here.

Pivot in identify. For the best possible result, hand drip the facing in place, or if you are confident, y'all can simply pin.

Sew all the way effectually the neckline, bounden facing up, close to the inside fold, and keeping your stitching an even distance from the neckline edge. Give the entire neckline a terminal press and you are done.

This method of finishing tin be used on both necklines and armholes.

So why am I telling you lot all this? I have a feeling you might exist using this method soon. We have a Racerback tank t-shirt pattern coming out tomorrow that y'all volition actually love. To become the perfect finish on your neckline and armholes, you'll want to use this mini bias facing.

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