Darla Sewalong Day 1

[@myOPheart]

I'm wondering why sometimes you treat the edges with a stay stitch and sometimes you serge/zigzag. I'm new enough to sewing that I can't tell when you've done one over the other. I think understand the reason for stay-stitching, and the reason for serging/zig-zag. But I don't know why you chose one and not the other. Thanks!!

[@truebias]

Hi. Thats a great question. So whenever we are staystitching it is to keep the fabric from stretching out during construction and before it is sewn to another another piece of fabric in a later step. So for instance, the top of the main bodice is staystitched so it doesn't get stretched out, but it doesn't need to be surged because those edges will be completely covered by the full lined bodice. The serging or zigzag stitching is to keep a raw edge from unraveling later. Sometimes we do this before sewing to another piece of fabric and sometimes after - depending on how the construction is coming together and when we will have access to those seams. Does this make sense?