Why Your Sewing Finish Looks Wrong: Volume 2 : Coverstitch Skips, Tunnel Hems, Chewed Serger Edges, Pocket Bubbles, Rolling Waistbands, Eyelets, Cord Ends, and Bar Tacks
Language: English
Published by Yoga Publications Trust, 1996
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- Title
- Why Your Sewing Finish Looks Wrong: Volume 2 : Coverstitch Skips, Tunnel Hems, Chewed Serger Edges, Pocket Bubbles, Rolling Waistbands, Eyelets, Cord Ends, and Bar Tacks
- Author
- Wrenley, Evelyn M.
- Publisher
- Yoga Publications Trust
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798185787144
- Item weight
- 1.052 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
- Series
- Book 2 of 5: Sewing Finishing Solutions
Good sewing is not only about getting the seam closed. It is about how the finish behaves after the garment is worn, washed, stretched, pressed, and used.
If your coverstitch skips only when it crosses a bulky seam, if a knit hem forms a tunnel between the stitch lines, if a soft hem curls outward after sewing, or if a serger chews the edge of delicate fabric, the problem is not always the whole machine.
Sometimes the real cause is the fabric, the fold, the seam crossing, the guide, the attachment, the pressure of your hands, the way the garment hangs from the table, or the way the finish is tested before the final piece.
Why Your Sewing Finish Looks Wrong: Volume 2 continues the practical, plain-English approach of the series with a new group of garment finishing problems. Each chapter starts with one visible sewing issue and explains what may be happening in simple language, without turning the book into a repair manual.
Inside, you will learn how to understand problems such as:
- Coverstitch skips at bulky side seam crossings
- Tube-like tunneling between coverstitch lines
- Hems that curl, lift, or feel too heavy for the fabric
- Chewed serger edges on fabric that frays easily
- Overlock seams that pop open at thick crossings
- Patch pockets that bubble in the middle after topstitching
- Waistbands that roll down after the garment is worn
- Plackets that gap even when the buttons match
- Linings that pull the hem inward
- Uneven eyelets, crushed cord ends, rivets, and bar tacks that distort the final shape
This book is written for home sewists, beginner and intermediate garment makers, small sewing-room workers, and anyone learning to get cleaner results with sergers, coverstitch machines, guides, folders, elastic, small hardware, pockets, waistbands, hems, and final garment details.
It does not ask you to open the machine, adjust internal timing, touch blades, or perform dangerous repairs. Instead, it helps you slow down, observe the fabric, test the real problem, and understand why a finish that looked fine on a flat scrap may fail on the actual garment.
If you want a calmer, more practical way to read your sewing mistakes and improve the next piece, this volume will help you build better finishing habits one problem at a time.
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