Sewing Quick Tips

If you’ve accidentally pressed a ridge into the right side of your fabric, try steaming the area (don’t press) and using your fingers or a brush to fluff the area back up. Or try dampening the area with water from a spray bottle (if your fabric can be dampened without damage) and re-pressing it.

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There’s debate over whether interfacing needs to be preshrunk. Some recommend it while others believe it’s not necessary. If you choose not to preshrink your interfacing, steam shrink the piece just prior to application by holding your iron over it and steaming it for a few seconds.

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If you find yourself without enough interfacing for a larger piece you need, feel free to piece smaller pieces of fusible interfacing together.

You can slightly overlap the edges of light to medium weight interfacing, but with heavier interfacing, butt the edges of the pieces together.

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To keep the hem on your knit garment from curling to the outside, try applying a strip of lightweight fusible knit interfacing to the bottom edge of your fabric before hemming (cut the strip the width of your hem and cut it on the cross-grain so it stretches). Then turn up the hem and stitch into place.

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When pressing velvet or other napped fabrics, it’s important to lay the napped side of the fabric against a needle board to keep the pile from being crushed.

If, however, you don’t have a needle board, you can substitute another piece of velvet – a piece you don’t intend to use for any other purpose and that has a very plush, deep pile.

To use, place the piece of velvet face up on your ironing board and the item to be pressed face down onto the velvet piece and lightly press.

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