Comments on: Help! My Jacket Keeps Riding Up

By: Customer Service

Customer Service — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:19:41 +0000

In reply to Jacke.

Hi,

If you cut all of your pieces with the wrong sides together rather than the right sides together if actually won’t make any difference at all. When something like this would make a difference is if you cut only some of your pattern pieces out with the fabric wrong sides together and then cut the rest with the right sides together- especially if the fabric has a definite right and wrong side. What essentially happens is that the first group of pattern pieces cut out will be opposite of the second group and they will not line up when you go to sew your pieces together.

Hope this helps!

By: Jacke

Jacke — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 23:12:04 +0000

I’m just starting sewing again after 40 years and when I laid out the pattern for my shirt and cut it out, I realized I had the material folded with wrong sides together as opposed to right sides. How much of a difference will this make and what do I have to do differently, if anything, when putting the shirt together to sew?

By: Customer Service

Customer Service — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:47:02 +0000

In reply to Nardos. Can you tell me what machine brand and model you are using? This will help me better help you get your machine set up to do a button hole.

By: magda

magda — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:43:25 +0000

need to know how many yards for a Nuevo Leon, Mexico dress. The skirt is double circular and the blouse has long puffy sleeves, the size are for youths. Thank you in advance.

By: Nardos

Nardos — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:43:24 +0000

I’m trying to make a button hole and instead I get the needle to mark only in one position.

By: Mary Ann Meyer

Mary Ann Meyer — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 01:48:36 +0000

The “riding up” problem might be solved by rubbing a fabric softener sheet either on the inside of the jacket or on the outside of whatever is being worn under it. This method definitely solves the problem with skirts clinging to pantyhose in the winter (static electricity), and I think it would work just as well with a jacket. Of course, this has to be done each time an article is worn.

By: Kay Cook

Kay Cook — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:18:58 +0000

The jacket may be riding up because your body wants more fabric than is available at the upper back. If you cut a muslin with just front and back from this pattern, put it on, and then make a slash across the back at the high back. This will open what we call a “fisheye” dart. Take the dart to nothing at the armscye. Recut another muslin and see if the “rideup” has improved.

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 23:25:55 +0000

In reply to Christine. You could sew small beads either to the inside or outside at hemline.

By: Jane Hendon

Jane Hendon — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 23:14:23 +0000

If your friend enjoys hand needlework, she could sew beads (glass, silver, seed, bugle, crystal, etc) along the hemline, either in a line or in a decorative pattern. Beads are surprisingly heavy, and are beautiful on a sheer fabric.

By: National Sewing Circle

National Sewing Circle — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:10:13 +0000

In reply to laura.

Hi Laura. Here is a link to the National Sewing Circle site. We offer both Free and Premium content on our site if you would like to check it out. https://www.nationalsewingcircle.com/