Types of seams and their use

More and more different blogs about sewing with beautiful clothes, handbags and various accessories for the apartment appear and pop up. Each of us must have come across them and enthusiastically browsed the pages and got inspired by their ideas. Unfortunately, we sometimes wonder how they just sewed it up and how they came up with it. The most important thing is certainly the idea, but then also the sewing process, and for that we need to know how to sew the given seam correctly and what types we have. It is precisely without a seam that we would not be able to realize any idea.

We have quite a few seams and each one is suitable for something different. Among the most used seams is the single ridge seam, which can be used on almost all types of fabric . We mustn't forget the other seams and they include the double back seam, lap seam, hemming seam, overlap seam and hemming seam.

 

seam - a place where two or more layers of fabric are sewn together

seam allowance – the width of fabric added to the actual edge of the garment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Types of seams:

Single back seam

It is a basic seam that is used for sewing all kinds of clothing and its width depends on the need of the sewn fabric . We sew a single-back seam by folding the two fabrics face to face on top of each other and stitching to the required width from the edge. The seam can be ironed or ironed. We clean the edges of the fabric .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Double back seam

The double-back seam must be sewn twice. First, we fold the fabric inside out and sew it for 0.5 cm. I smooth the seam with my hand and then fold it face to face and sew a 0.75 cm wide seam. The previous seam, which was sewn for 0.5 cm, must be hidden between the fabric. This seam is most often used for sewing work clothes and pocket pouches. Cotton canvases and silk batiste are very suitable for these things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overlapping seam

We sew the overlapped seam 2x in the same way as the previous double-back seam. Fold the fabric face down so that the bottom edge of the fabric protrudes by 0.5-0.7 cm and sew from the edge by 0.5 cm. We iron the seam so that the wider edge is folded over the narrower edge and the wider edge is raised by a millimeter and stitched. This seam is most often used to sew work clothes, underwear and denim clothes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hemming seam

We attach the kosmo-cut strip of fabric to the reverse side of the sewn part and pre-stitch by 0.5 cm. We lift the strip and turn it to the wrong side, and on the front side we can stitch the edging strip with a machine in the edge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overlap seam

This seam is sewn by placing the edges of both materials together and lining them with a lining or lining and sewing them with a machine. Stitching can be straight, or with an entrench stitch. The overlapping seam can also be sewn by placing the edges of the material about 1 cm over each other and machine stitching in the middle. This seam is used for sewing slits, gussets, or reinforcing inserts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hemming seam

We have two types of hem seam: single hem and double hem

1. simple hemming – we can clean the edge of the material in advance and bend it inside out in the desired width and stitch it by hand or by machine
2. double hem – fold the fabric twice inside out in the desired width and stitch with a machine or by hand