awl
tool to piece holes in fabirc
notcher
tool used for notching paper patter
production pattern
A pattern ready for production seam allowances is included
Oak tag
Poster board weight used to trace pattern
Dart
An in take of fabric at the top of the fabric and zero intake at point of the darts length- allows for two diffrent measurements where top is smaller and bottom is creating bulk or room
dart legs
the analong of the dart the leg is digonal direction from intake
apex
The very top of the dart
Notches
Indicators for seam allowence, dart legs, Match up point, pleats, zippers
Standard dart
Back stich at the top and the bottom most common
Delicate dart
Back stitch at the top and hand tie know at the bottom- used for fabirc that is delicate
Industry dart
No back stitching so must pivot and run over previous stitches to lock them into place
Binding/ selvge of the fabirc
The tight bound edge founded on the length of your fabric also classes straight grain or length wise grain
Cross grain
Is the grain that is the width of your fabirc
Bias
Diagonal direction of the fabirc, is always stretchy
clip n rip
clip fbric past the binding in orderto rip farbic across the cross grain
Back stitch
Used at the begging so the seam dosent come undone
stitch length
Length of single stitch
Stitch width
Width of a single stitch
Stag stitch
1.5 stitch used for strength
Baste stitch
stitch legnth 5 or done by hand 9come back to i cant read my hand writing)
Ease stich
Stitch length 5 no back stitching used in areas that need more volume
Seam allownce
Distance between raw edge and desired sitch length
serger
Speicalized sewing machine that cuts and encases edging with four threads at the same time. ideal for strechy fabrics
hem
hem is folded the sewn edge, iused to finsh garment, pervent unravling and adujst legnth