#but now it's my beloved way to the nicest neatest flat felled seams. basting is good!

[vinceaddams]

a lot of people, when they start learning how to sew, will see instructions about pressing carefully and staystitching and basting and grainline and machine tension and such, and will go "ehh, I can ignore that and save some time" and then later they'll go "why do my seams look so bad? :(" and. well.. that's why.

#and that was me to some degree for a good long while #mainly with basting. god I hated basting for so so long #but now it's my beloved way to the nicest neatest flat felled seams. basting is good! #I also stubbornly refused to learn to use a thimble until I was forced to for work #and it turns out thimbles are great! #sewing #I never skimped out on ironing at least! you NEED to press your seams dammit! #I also don't usually do staytstitching because it's not necessary on my 18th century tailored & square cut things #but for stuff like rayon summer nightgowns with curved necklines and armholes? IMPERATIVE!