How to do a sewing stitch by hand?

Sewing is a wonderful and useful hobby, but it does not do without overcoming some difficulties. Which in fact are not such and can be completely solved even with minimal tailoring skills. And today we will raise the issue, which confounds the majority of newcomers in the sewing business.

What are we talking about?

Each beginning master is concerned with one important point. While doing almost any product, you have to deal with such an important operation as the processing of seams. Perform it in different ways, but more often thanks to a device called overlock.

Accurately made on the overlock line, no doubt, pleases the eye. The product at the same time looks directly "branded". And in general, this technical device is able to facilitate the life of any master.

Unfortunately, this expensive device is not available for each of us. Meanwhile, any seamstress does all the work from start to finish wants beautifully and accurately.

What to do?

Suppose that the absence of an overlock does not bother you. You can sew a sewing stitch by hand. It's not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Of course, you will have to spend much more time, but the result may look pretty decent.

What is a seam stitch? We use it for the final processing of fabrics during the sewing process. At the same time, they can be attached to individual panels. Thanks to this, you can get a very neat tissue cut. And there are several ways to do the sewing seam by hand. And in this article we will try to touch on some of the subtleties of this work.

How it looks in the product made by the seam stitch by hand, the photo below shows quite clearly.

Let's get started.

So, we do not have an overlock. Before making the sewing seam by hand, we will estimate our resources. Take the highest quality needles, preferably a well-known manufacturer. Best of all, if it is a needle with a special coating in the area of the hole, called a "golden ear" in this case. Thanks to it, the thread will be easy to slice and smoothly slide through the fabric.

The numbering of needles used for manual sewing has a gradation from the 1st to the 12th number. What do these figures mean? This is the 10 times its largest diameter in millimeters.

Never take a needle for work if it is dulled, bent or rusted. And do not forget about the consistency of its thickness and thread. After all, the bigger the diameter of the needle, the more serious the effort will be required to push through the fabric. Accordingly, and the thread must be sufficiently thick.

What else do I need to know?

In addition, do not take a needle for embroidery, which is blunt, that is, a specially rounded tip. It is not possible to make a sewing seam by hand using it. Its purpose is only to draw patterns along the canvas with a cross.

It would be superfluous to use a thimble. It will protect your fingers and nails from accidental damage. And the sewing process with him will go faster.

It is easiest to process those materials that have a high density and do not crumble very much. Work with them is easy even for beginners. With thin and loose - a bit more complicated.

Sewing by hand - how to start?

When starting work, enter the needle from the wrong side to the front. Tied on the thread of the bundle will remain on the back, that is, the wrong side. Then, stretching the thread, withdraw the needle back (in the direction from itself) to the wrong side. With further pulling of the thread, you should leave a small loop and through it along the edge of the fabric pass the needle without piercing the material.

The loop must be tightened carefully, holding it with your free hand. After that the procedure is repeated. You stretch the needle to yourself, then back, enter into the loop and carefully pull it up. As a result, get a series of accurate sturdy stitches.

What other hand stitching seams can be? There is a so-called twist, it is used as a finishing, making out ruffles and slices. When tailoring products in the studio, they change it to a role seam.

How does it look like?

The manually sewn seam in this case is performed as follows. First, a thin, taut roller is twisted from the fabric. Then he gently stretches on the left hand (on the index finger), while holding the middle and thumbs of the same hand.

Needle with a thin thread should be prepared in advance. With its help, the roller is tightly wound with a thread - stitches, which should be adjacent to each other as tightly as possible. The direction of puncture with a needle is on yourself. The thickness of such a roller should not exceed a millimeter.

What is a suture stitch?

Sections of the product can be processed with a so-called hand- stitched seam. To make a loop, you need a thread of sufficient length, it should be enough to handle a whole loop or at least halves.

The procedure in this case is as follows:

• Having constructed the first loop, we thread the beginning of the thread into it and tighten it. Then the thread is neatly placed on the side surface of the cut.
• In the case where the thread is already ending, leave its end and thread the next stitch with a new thread without tightening the loop.

• The end of the old thread is threaded into the formed loop and the beginning of the new one, after which the loop is tightened. Both ends should be laid on the sidewall.
• Similarly, the desired number of stitches is executed. The ends of the threads are tightened and cut off.
• The last of the stitches is repeated twice in the same place, and the fabric should be turned inside out. The needle is brought under a couple of last stitches, stretched and cut with scissors.

After gaining some experience, any of the novice masters themselves is oriented in which of the seams it is more convenient to perform and what exactly comes out neater. Then she will be able to determine the preferred method of processing tissue sections.

Other types of manual sewing

There are other varieties of such seams. One of them, called oblique, is quite simple. Processing the fabric, the stitches do not tighten much, placing it along the scythe so that in each running centimeter of the cut they are placed from 3 to 4 pieces. In this case, the length of each of the stitches should be about half a centimeter or slightly more.

Slightly more difficult is the seam stitch, called a cross-shaped seam. It is made almost like the previous one, but after reaching the edge of the cut, it is necessary to turn in the opposite direction (without turning the fabric) and move in the opposite direction. Stitches overlap each other crosswise.

As a result, a cut of our product is decorated with a number of neat crosses. It should be ensured that the uniform stitch height, the step between them, and the same angle of inclination are observed throughout the seam - stitches must be parallel, otherwise the work will not look neat.

More options

How to make a sewing stitch by hand in a more complicated version, with imitation of processing on the overlock? They work the same way as the case with a seam, but at the same time, through the top of the triangle from the stitches, the needle should be dragged twice.

The same technique must be used when processing the corners of the product. Every needle in the triangle must "visit" at least two times!

Let's hope that this small article proved to be useful to our hard-working readers, and now everyone understands that small difficulties in sewing business are completely surmountable. I wish everyone success in mastering this beautiful form of creativity!