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Reply To: what stitch is best to sew stretch mesh?

Reply To: Making a Dress Pant

...on sewing a pair of jeans. It also has a fly so the waistband technique might be similar enough to help out. It's part of our premium membership though. https://www.professorpincushion.com/professorpincushion/jeans-assembly/...

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Reply To: Pajama pants

Sorry, we don't have a full tutorial on this yet, but our tutorial on the elastic waistband are pajama bottoms, if you need help with that part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnsR-by7kKk...

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Reply To: Baste

...you don't have to do any backstitching as this stitch can be removed when you finish your garment. You can see me doing an example of basting stitch here: https://www.professorpincushion.com/professorpincushion/basting-stitch/...

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...an example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eTurIxJlFg You'll also see in this tutorial that some sewing machines can also do their own satin stitch but it takes a lot of practice to do...

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Reply To: Separating zipper

...separating zipper and you mainly want to do it from the top. We don't have a tutorial on this yet, but there's a pretty good article on it here: http://www.burdastyle.com/techniques/shorten-a-separating-zipper...

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Reply To: Blending a Pattern?

...style patterns so you might want to check their site. This purple jacket on this pattern is pretty cute and it might be more of what you're looking for: http://www.simplicity.com/p-12107-misses-steampunk-costumes.aspx...

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