[Nfb-krafters-korner] answers to Want To Know Wednesday

[Nella Foster]

Here are the answers to the little sewing quiz that I posted on Wednesday.
If you disagree with any of them please take it up with my good friend
Wikipedia. lol

 

Baste is a method using long removable stitches to temporarily join pieces
of fabric.  This technique is call tacking in Britain.

 

A casing is a fabric tunnel through which elastic or a drawstring can be
threaded to pull in or draw up the fabric.

 

Darning <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darning>  is a technique for
repairing holes or worn areas in fabric
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile>  or knitting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting>  using needle
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_needle>  and thread
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn> . It is often done by hand, but it is
also possible to darn with a sewing machine
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine> . Hand darning employs the
darning stitch, a simple running stitch
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_stitch>  in which the thread is
"woven" in rows along the grain of the fabric, with the stitcher reversing
direction at the end of each row, and then filling in the framework thus
created, as if weaving.

 

Gathering <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gather_(sewing)>  is a technique
for shortening the length of a strip of fabric
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile>  so that the longer piece can be
attached to a shorter piece. It is commonly used in clothing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing>  to manage fullness, as when a full
sleeve <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeve>  is attached to the armscye or
cuff of a shirt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dress_shirt> , or when a
skirt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirt>  is attached to a bodice
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodice> . In simple gathering, parallel
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_(geometry)>  rows of running
stitches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_stitch>  are sewn along one
edge of the fabric to be gathered. The stitching threads are then pulled or
"drawn up" so that the fabric forms small folds along the threads. Multiple
rows of gathering are called shirring.

 

hem

1.  To hem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hem>  a piece of cloth (in sewing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing> ), a garment worker folds up a cut
edge, folds it up again, and then sews it down. The process of hemming thus
completely encloses the cut edge in cloth, so that it cannot ravel.

2.  A hem is also the edge of cloth hemmed in this manner.

 

seam <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_(sewing)> , in sewing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing> , is the line where two pieces of
fabric <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile>  are held together by thread
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn> .

 

seam allowance <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_allowance> 

is the area between the edge of fabric and the stitching line on two (or
more) pieces of material being stitched together. Seam allowances can range
from 1/4 inch wide (6.35 mm) to as much as several inches. Commercial
patterns for home sewers have seam allowances ranging from 1/4 inch to 5/8
inch.

 

selvage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selvage>  (US English) or selvedge
(British English) is the term for the self-finished edges of fabric
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile> . In woven
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving>  fabric, selvages are the edges that
run parallel to the warp <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_(weaving)> ,
and are created by the weft <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weft>  thread
looping back at the end of each row. The selvage of commercially produced
fabrics is often cut away and discarded.