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 5: Hemming. Pick Stitch
Hemming. Pick Stitch
A pick stitch is a small durable backstitch to hand finish a hem or a zipper application. Also called hand pick stitch.
Secure thread; pick up a small stitch of the garment with the needle.
About ΒΌ inch from the hem edge, pick up another stitch.
Continue to stitch, taking a stitch first in the garment and then in the hem edge, until the hem is finished.
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