Burda’s Twist Top: Construction steps Part One
Okay, after the first goal scored by the Hurricanes I had a strong feeling the oilers were going to lose. I was right. I sewed while I listened/watched the game. Good thing. Anyways, I finally started on my twist top.
My step was to finish off the upper front’s edge off with a serged seam. I put a tricot strip to prevent waves on my edge.
Next, I folded the edge over 1.2 cms and pressed. The instructions tell you to topstitch the folded over edge with a twin needle but I just stitched twice. If you look closely at the following two photos, you will see that I used the middle of the right part of the foot to measure the distance of 1/4″ from the edge and from the first stitching. Do I make any sense??
Once that is finished, gather the sides of each upper front until they are 8 cm in width. I then placed the upper front with the wrong side facing the RIGHT side of the lower front. The gathered side must match up with the side.
Then I did the same to the other side.
Now comes the twist.
Stay tuned for the next steps. Ciao!
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