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4-tier dress with cross-stitching #2 2015-07-09 12:45

Have you ever asked yourself which stitch is the best suited to make your garment? Honestly, this is the first time I really think this through.

I used the same pattern as the one for this cross-stitch dress but I made a slight improvement, which is actually something that you probably don’t notice at all – an invisible stitch to sew the bottom edge of the dress.

I would never have thought of this if it wasn’t for the crosstitch between the printed and the pink fabric. I wanted a stitch for the bottom edge that would combine nicely with the very narrow cross stitch. As it turns out, I couldn’t find any… A simple straigth stitch would be the first obvious choice but it can’t be sewn as close to the bottom edge as the cross stitch was, and I thought it would create an unbalance instead of highlighting the cross stitch. So that’s how I thought about the invisible stitch.

My sewing machine is a Husqvarna Viking Emerald and I found on sewingmastery.com a lot of useful tutorials about how to best use your machine stitches, one of them about the invisible stitch. And I also found good information about stretch stitches, that I haven’t been using so much despite sewing stretch fabrics… That will change now for sure!

Here are some close-up pictures of the invisible stitch so you can see how hard it is to spot!

Invisible stitch on the right side of the dress (those little grey dots at the bottom edge, as the stitches you see between the pink stretch fabric and the printed fabric are the straight stitches that make the cross stitch)

And invisible stitch on the wrong side of the dress (the —-v—- stitch is the invisible stitch, and the other —-X—- stitch is just the overlock of the edge to prevent it from fraying)

This dress is now on its way to Germany, present for a very nice little girl named Íciar. Now let’s just hope for a long summer so she can wear it a lot!

Here is the link to another cross stitch dress.