I’d been working on a T-shirt quilt, and wanted to give you this tip on how to sew your sashing to the T-shirt part.
And so, I’ve gone ahead and pinned my sashing and the tip is – you want to make sure that when you are sewing the two together, keep the cotton on your feed dogs, closest to your feed dogs, and the T-shirt closest to your presser foot.
And by doing that, you will have a better; the sewing machine will grip the bottom a little bit easier, and you won’t have so much slippage or buckling of the T-shirt on the top.
Also, by keeping your pins in this direction, you don’t have to worry about taking those pins out, distorting the seam as you’re going along.
Hope that works for you!
Here’s a tip on working with knits and cottons.
When sewing sashing to your t-shirts, lay the cotton fabric on the feeddogs of your sewing machine while the knit rest under the presser foot. The feed dogs on the machine will grab the cotton easier than the knit.
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