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  Making a sewing machine your best friend could be a healthy hobby. You can experiment with fabrics as well as try exciting designs. But it needs times and resources to master the craft, simply get it by. From trivial work as threading the needle or your sewing machine to filling bobbin with the right thread, you need to understand many mechanisms before stitching for the first time. There are many terms and nomenclature you need to familiarize yourself with before boasting about your stitching skills among your friends. Today, we will discuss three of the most important, yet controversial, terms in the business of sewing and cutting. The terms – selvage, grain, and bias, sounds like they are not even remotely related. However, in the fabric world, they are intimately related, and knowing about them will be useful for you, especially in purchasing fabric, cutting, and sewing it more efficiently. There are different ways to spell selvage – it goes selvage in British English, wherea...

By knowing how to give the “stiff upper lip” to your fabric, you will have the best product in your hand once it is finished. You can use certain interfacing and stiffening agents, while sewing, to help you get the desired tension. Hand-applied liquid stiffeners or sprays also help if your work requires working with crafts. It is the simplest way to experiment with a bit of both and settling for the most suitable one. How Can You Stiffen The Fabric For Sewing While you are sewing and really aiming for stiffening, it is most helpful for collars, cuffs, facings, tabs, and openings. There is no hard and fast rule to what should stiffen in the course of sewing. Anything or any part of the fabric that would hang and hold better for comfort use this method. It is safe to try interfacing on scraps and rugs before you try out on the original fabric. How To Use Interfacing For Stiffening The Fabric Interfacing comes in a lot of different sizes, types, and shapes, and it is better to check with ...