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Jeans - Felled Seam

I have a pair of jeans. In an effort to sell some high-dollar sewing machines, the local shop had a Saturday event - bring in a pair of jeans and we'll fancy them up with embroidery on one leg. Had to open the inner felled seam. Me, in my enthusiasm, opened both inner felled seams.

Got the fancy embroidery and some sparkly stuff on one leg, outside seam, near the heam. Now I have to resew the inner felled seams. I can't seem to wrap my mind around this. I can't tear out the outer seam, at least on the one leg that's all tricked out. Is that what I'd have to do to fix these?

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Maureen Smith
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You *could* sew the seam again as a felled seam, it's just a little difficult to do the top-stitching, because as you proceed further up (or down) the seam, you have a smaller and smaller area to work in, kinda like crawling into a small tunnel and dragging the opening in after you. ;-}

If it were me, I'd just sew the seam right-sides-together, and serge or zig-zag the raw edges to prevent raveling. Then sew the hem, and you're good to go.

HTH,

Beverly

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BEI Design

In such a situation, I gather the leg up onto the free arm first, then stitch it off.

But if you haven't a free arm, this isn't much help.

(Missed my nap today; I may or may not make sense)

Joy Beeson

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Joy Beeson

Works nicely if your machine stitches sideways... One reason I WOULD like one o'they fancy embroidery malarkies! :)

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Kate Dicey

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cea

My very ordinary mechanical machine does this - I just drop the feed dogs as though to do darning, and move the fabric along sideways under the needle.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

I am a very bright lady. I have bits of paper that say so. Why did they not have this written on them?

Duh! moment! ;)

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Kate Dicey

I'm sorry, but that's a Gross Violation of the Too-Easy Rule!!!!

Thanks for the useful tip! Liz

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Liz MacDonald

Some of the older Berninas do that sans the auto-embroidery. I know for sure that the 1630 does sideways motion. It has a 9 mm stitch width too. I used one while my 931 was in the shop and I liked it a lot.... almost bought one used. Only things I did not like were (1) not the greatest light though that can be corrected with one of those table-top Ott lights. I was also not fond of the track ball but got used to it quickly. It's a very precise, quality machine and I'd buy one in a sec to have a second 9 mm machine--- if I had the dosh. It also has the coded feet. The directional feed is darned convenient.... much more than I ever anticipated. Feed dogs down are fine for darning and FMQ but you get precision and speed with sideways and directional stitching. I predict that this will become a standard on most machines in the future.

Phae

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Phaedrine

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