Blouse hemming/piping

Hi Ramya,
Perfection comes only by practice.
My suggestions would be
1. Hope you are cutting a bias strip.
2. For hemming don't fold it twice, instead make a small fold on side and put at least long stitch lenthwise, then attach other end to the blouse, then do little notches taking care not to cut stitches for every 3 or 4 inches. Then open do a top stitch on the hem strip fro right side gripping the raw end underneath. The do the hemming manually.
3.For piping too adopt same procedure as above till notches. Then fold the previously stitched end maintaining the breadth of piping through out stitch as much closer the stitch made to join the strip with blouse gripping the folded end underneath
4. For lining blouse you can do in above methods or stitching the right side of main cloth over the lining, make notches, then turning it over. But if the main cloth is transparent, the trapped ends well be seen outside. Facing works out better for different shapes of neck
Hope i am clear and it helps
Regards
Manjukps

 

good question..i too have several such doubts, and no books or sites give this kind of tips & tricks.
For a blouse or kameez with lining, can we finish the neck with the lining itself? That seems easier to do, but i do not know if thats the right thing to do. Else if we try to do a facing neck finish including both the blouse and lining pieces held together, isnt that going to become thick there?
Thanks!

 

Hi chandrakiran,

It is better to finish the neckline with facing. It gives a good finish. If you finish off by stitching the cloth with right side over lining and turn, it lacks the stiffness and may soon fray also.

In youtube you search for "women's hub". They have excellent tutorial for salwar and lining blouse.

Hope it helps.
Regards
Manjukps