Teen Living Notes

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Teen Living Notes

• Competency 12.00 Basic fashion construction
  procedures to produce personal clothing home
  accessories.

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Sewing pressing equipment

• Pins hold fabric together
• Needles bring thread through fabric
• If you spill a box of pins to the floor, the best
  way (easily safety) to pick them up would be to
  use a magnet
• Serger sewing machine trims fabric overcast the
  cut edge at high speed

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Sewing pressing equipment

• Press cloth is needed to prevent shiny marks on
  fabric
• If stitches pucker when using the sewing machine,
  check the tension level
• Tracing wheel used to transfer markings from a
  pattern to fabric
• Seam ripper used to remove unwanted stitches
  from a seam

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Sewing pressing equipment

• A presser foot keeps the fabric securely in place
  while stitching on a sewing machine
• Thread take-up lever is a part on a sewing
  machine that controls the even flow of thread
  through the needle
• A pin cushion is a small equipment piece item
  needed to store pins(hold pins) when removing
  them from your fabric pattern pieces before
  sewing them together

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Sewing pressing equipment

• A sewing machine needle should be replaced when
  bent or damaged
• The purpose of thread guides on a sewing machine
  is to keep thread from tangling
• When ironing, use a padded adjustable ironing
  board

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Sewing pressing equipment

• Reverse stitch control is the part of the sewing
  machine used to secure a row of stitches at the
  beginning end of a seam
• Ironing is when you glide a hot iron back forth
  on a piece of clothing
• To avoid a shine when ironing fabric, use steam
  and a press cloth

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Sewing pressing equipment

• Use a thimble when hand sewing to protect your
  index finger
• If the thread breaks while machine stitching,
  check first the machine threading to make sure
  you have threaded the machine properly
• Dressmakers Pinking shears scissors(zigzag
  shape) is a basic necessary tool for cutting.
  The woven fabric has a finish edge.

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Sewing pressing equipment

• Pressing lift the iron and lowering it onto a
  garment
• When not using scissors or shears make sure they
  are closed
• After using the sewing machine be sure to unplug
  cover the machine

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Sewing pressing equipment

• The feed dog two small rows of metal teeth that
  moves the fabric evenly through the machine
• Tape measure used to take body measurements to
  help in purchasing or making clothing. Ex arms,
  neck, waist, chest, and ect.
• A bobbin provides thread for the bottom side of
  the stitch

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Basic Construction

• When tracing markings from a pattern piece onto
  fabric be sure the tracing paper is on both of
  the wrong sides of the fabric and put enough
  pressure on the tracing wheel to transfer the
  markings
• When forming a thread shank sew on a button,
  then wind the thread several times around the
  stitches under the button

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Basic Construction

• Notches are diamond shape designs on pattern
  pieces that you are to cut around
• Best place to find for information about your
  pattern is to look on the pattern guide sheet.
  It will tell you which pieces to cut out, how to
  lay pieces out on fabric, step by step
  instructions for cutting, marking, and sewing.

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Basic Construction

• To begin sewing - Place the fabric under the
  presser foot on the sewing machine. Always start
  to sew with the sewing machine needle down inside
  the fabric.
• When cutting out pattern pieces, the cutting line
  is a solid dark line to cut on.
• To change a stitch design (ex from zigzag to
  straight) adjust the stitch width control.

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Basic Construction

• When sewing on buttons to a garment use 2 strands
  of thread
• When pinning pattern pieces to fabric, place the
  pins perpendicular to the fold lines cutting
  lines. Be sure to pin through both the pattern
  piece and fabric
• Seam allowances should be 5/8 of an inch

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Basic Construction

• To sew a simple seam, backstitch at the beginning
  and end of the seam to secure thread. This means
  you will not be able to pull the thread out
• While sewing a seam on a sewing machine, watch
  for both items the edge of the fabric and the
  guideline mark on the metal plate

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Basic Construction

• First step to take when hemming a garment is to
  mark where the new hem should be
• To cut fabric use long even strokes
• The shank on a button is there to allow room when
  the button is closed

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Basic Construction

• Pinking shears are used to create a seam finish
• Notches on a pattern piece are used to match
  pieces together with one another (right left
  side of pattern)
• Care instructions for fabric that you buy are
  found on the end of a bolt of fabric