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Basic Hand Stitches: CDLC Smart Kids Learning School

This document provides information about basic hand stitches, including their names and uses. It discusses various temporary and permanent hand stitches like even and uneven basting, diagonal basting, tailors' tucks, hemming stitch, back stitch, cross or catch stitch, buttonhole stitch, eyelets, and bar tucks. These hand stitches are essential sewing skills and have many uses in garment construction and home sewing.

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Basic Hand Stitches: CDLC Smart Kids Learning School

This document provides information about basic hand stitches, including their names and uses. It discusses various temporary and permanent hand stitches like even and uneven basting, diagonal basting, tailors' tucks, hemming stitch, back stitch, cross or catch stitch, buttonhole stitch, eyelets, and bar tucks. These hand stitches are essential sewing skills and have many uses in garment construction and home sewing.

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CDLC Smart Kids Learning School

Basic Hand Stitches


Erika Mae B. Bedar
What is Basic Hand Stitches?
 essential sewing skill every sewer should possess and master
 have many uses
 used primarily as finishing techniques
 often used in households or schools
Even and Uneven Basting

 used to hold in position two or more


pieces of material in place before
stitching permanently.
 temporary stitches
 stitched from right to left toward the
sewer.
Diagonal Basting

 a temporary stitches
 used to hold in place, inverted edges
before pressing.
 used in basting part over interlinings
and linings
 used to hold pieces of material
before stitching thru the machine.
Tailors’ Tucks

 temporary stitches used for marking


stitching lines, pocket levels, and
guide lines.
 used for marking delicate materials
 it also do not leave crayon marks
after sewing, because the thread
ends are pulled afterwards.
Hemming Stitch

 used to fell the bottom of trousers,


the bottom of vests or coats, and the
bottom of coat sleeves.
Back Stitch
 the forerunner of machine-stitching
 stitch long used to assemble
garments before the invention of the
sewing machine
 replace broken machine- stitches
 used to secure edges in four corners
where presser food cannot go.
Cross or Catch Stitch

 stitched from left to right


 used for felling raw edges to avoid
bulkiness
Buttonhole Stitch

 used for worked buttonholes and


tailored worked buttonhole.
 all buttonholes the square end
should be finished with a bar.
Eyelets
 made with buttonholes stitches
 used for openings to accommodate
metal shanked buttons, so that they
can be removed before laundering
 used in middy plackets of shirts to
pass the shoe laces for closings
Bar Tucks

 use also buttonhole stiches


Write True if the statement is correct, and if its
False, write the correct answer.
1. Eyelets is the forerunner of machine-stitching.
2. Catch Stitch is stitched from left to right.
3. Diagonal Basting are also temporary stitches used for marking
stitching lines, pocket levels and guide lines.
4. Bar tucks are used to hold in position two or more pieces of material
in place before stitching permanently.
5. Hemming Stitch is made with buttonhole stitches.
“Don‘t let what you
cannot do interfere
with what you can
do.”
– John Wooden
Thank you for attending today’s class!

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