Cutting and sewing: basics for beginners

The need in some cases to cut off the ends of trousers, to sew too wide a dress or a skirt at the waist sometimes leads to an interesting thought. And why not learn cutting and sewing?

Cutting and sewing are the two main stages of modelingand designing clothes. The ability to sew opens up huge opportunities - now it is not a problem to sew a dress or a figure suit. Where should you begin learning to cut and sew?

Those who want to learn cutting and sewing usually haveseveral ways. You can enroll in special courses for sewing and sewing, you can do self-study or take sewing lessons from a friend dressmaker. However, there is one thing that unites all these methods: a desire to learn how to sew.

Training in cutting and sewing requires a lot of time and effort. You can not learn how to sew well in a matter of days - it takes years to gain true mastery.

If you want to learn how to cut and sew clothes, then You need to have patience and the following tools. First, we need a sewing machine that canbe with a manual, foot or electric drive. You will also need needles of different length and thickness, thread, scissors for cutting, patterns, measuring tools, pins, chalk or remnants. For cutting clothes you will need a graph paper, a drawing paper, a pencil, a tracing paper, etc.

The study of the fundamentals of cutting and sewing begins with the study of terminology, basic machine and manual stitches, principles of taking measurements and constructing patterns. For example, every novice sewing specialist should know what the term "sewn" differs from "sewn", which means the term "pritachat" or "stachat", why it is necessary to "decaffect" the fabric.

Manual seams and stitches are used when sewing products for temporary fastening of parts together, for processing the edges of the product or fordecorative finishes. In addition, manual stitches are used for permanent connection of parts of the product in cases where it is impossible to use a sewing machine.

Measurements for tailoring are removed using a tailor's meter. This is a long narrow strip of material, on whichThe units of measurement are either inches or centimeters. Depending on the accuracy of the measurement, the step of the tailor meter can be 1-5 mm or a tenth of an inch.

All Measure should be removed from a person without outer clothingi.e. only in underwear. When measuring, the tailor's meter should fit snugly against the area to be measured, but not squeeze it. In some cases, when taking the measurement, it is necessary to take into account an additional 1-2 cm for completeness. The chest and hip circumference is measured at the most convex points, the waist circumference - on the narrowest part of the body body.

Pattern drawing is first performed on a graph paper in accordance with the measurements taken and the modelfuture product. Then the drawing is transferred to the paper for patterning. For cutting the fabric, the pattern is placed on a well-ironed and folded face of the fabric inside, according to the direction of the warp yarns, weft or oblique threads, depending on the model. Pattern is fixed on the fabric with pins.

A piece of chalk or a small remnant of the details of the pattern are outlined taking into account all the allowance on the seams. After that, the details of the pattern are neatly removed,so as not to deform the fabric. The fabric is cut with sharp tailor's scissors so that the part is located to the right of the scissors, and the cut fabric is on the left.

When all the details of the future product are cut, you need to start assembling the product. At first the assembly is done manually,stitches. Then, after trying on the product and correcting any possible shortcomings, the product is machine-weighed. In the finished product, it is necessary to process the sections manually or with an overlock, if necessary, carry out decorative finishing of the product.

You can sew clothes according to already prepared patterns, which are offered by special magazines and online publications, or you can invent the required style yourself. but beginners are best placed to take on simple products in order to understand the fundamentals of cutting and sewing, and only then to start making more complex models.