Tutorials: Sewing Basics

Sewing Basics: How to do a baste stitch before gathering when #sewing #dollclothes

This brief video explains the basics of basting. In this tutorial, you’ll learn approximately how far apart your baste stitches should be spaced when you’re sewing doll clothes.

In addition to demonstrating the baste stitch when done by hand, it also talks about basting on a sewing machine.

This image may also help you understand what we mean by basting:

Upper left: a teardrop zoom image shows that on a sewing machine's dial, we search for a stitch emblem that's quite wide, in contrast with the straight stitch and the zigzag stitch, when sewing a baste stitch on a sewing machine; upper right: pink gingham fabric shows a series of wide stitches that go in and out through the fabric's edge; center: "Baste" is defined as "extra wide stitches that hold your fabric in place while you work"; Lower section of image shows a blue garment with wide stitches sewn by hand through the neckline, and sticking out from each side of the neckline is an inch-long or two-centimeter long stretch of thread with one end of the thread knotted and the other end of the thread freely cut (with "no knot" written beside it).
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