can someone answer me please- hood on shirt

SayHaw a écrit :

If it were me I would trim the seam as much as is possible and use a bias tape to cover the raw edges. Contrasting colours can make a nice feature if you don't have an exact match for the tape. If your hood is double layered, quite a few of my son's t-shirt ones are you could make the inner one slightly longer at the part where you join to the neck and either over lock/serge the edge and stitch down over the raw seam or turn the edge under over the top of the raw seam and stitch down if you don't have a way to over lock the edge. This would be similar to the way I would stitch down the inside of a waistband so that the stitches sit in the stitch line if the seam you made when attaching the hood.

That's as far as my thinking takes me I hope that helps, I'm not very good at describing the physical in words I hope you can see me waving my hands to explain it properly.

Claire in Montréal France

I'd fell the seam by reducing the neckline seam allowance only to a scant 1/4", then folding the hood seam allowance under and stitching that down over the hood seam allowance. Try it first on scraps, and if the fabric you're using is firmly woven, baste it by hand before machine sewing the fell. This is the same sort of finish you'd use for the armscye or for a jeans leg seam.

neckline is not the place I'd probably teach someone to do their first felled seam, but it can be done -- just take it slowly. Alternatively, if the fabric is heavy and uncooperative (like a heavy denim), I'd probably serge the neckline, and then topstitch the serging down like a mock-felled seam. Or I'd serge and then cover the serged seam with a Hong-Kong binding cut from lightweight lining fabric.

I'm presuming you don't have a serger, so you could do the same sort of idea by trimming your seam allowance to a 1/4" and then zigzagging over the cut edge, then stitching the seam allowance down flat. See the green sample on the bottom of page 108 (you may also recognize this from inside a jeans leg!)

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thank you very much....