Stage 1: Welcome!
Stage 2: The skill of Hand Sewing
Stage 3: Equipment and Tools
Stage 4: Machine Sewing
Stage 5: Facing
Stage 6: Bias
Stage 7: Closures
Stage 8: Pockets
Lesson 3: Hemming. Catch Stitch
Hemming. Catch Stitch
A catch stitch is a hand-worked, short backstitch, taken alternately from left to right, ply to ply, to form a close cross-stitch.
Take a small, horizontal stitch in the garment, from right to left, near the edge of the hem.
Pick up a thread of the garment diagonally, below and to the right of the first stitch.
Continue to stitch in this zig-zag pattern until the hem is finished.
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