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i'm creating a garment for my textiles major and ive realised that i dont even know how to attach a lining to the base fabric!! i searched up on youtube 'how to sew lining' and this was the most appealing and assumingly helpful video on lining i found and ends up your tutorial has taught me HEAPS so thank you so very much for this lovely and helpful tutorial!! im very grateful for spending your time on this and your passion for sewing has motivated me to continue creating my garment. while i was watching this video, the second i was wondering how professional garments have their lining always facing on the inside of the garment you happened to explain it that we had to do under stitching and top stitching... its like you read my mind!! how crazy is that haha
Thank you for mentioning how tricky understitching can be! This was definitely something I struggled with and it was nice to know that the struggle is real and the advice to just "do the best I can" really helped alleviate my stress as a beginner sewer!
Professor P, you are the best sewing teacher ever! I'd consider myself an accomplished home dec sewer, but never sewed garments for myself until recently (thank you, new pattern companies with larger cup sizes!). Years ago, I even sewed lots of little girl dresses using this method but I needed a refresher. I'm going to use this with a lightweight knit bodice on the new Washington dress pattern from Cashmerette. Thank you for your calm, clear instructions.
Thank you SO much for this tutorial! I've been searching for a good clear tutorial on how to line a jacket and this gave me a general idea of how to do it.
Watching this in 2021. First ever sewing project (med student with online classes) and making a hand sewn dress (lined, darts, zipper, pockets)! Your video was the most useful! Subscribed ❤️
Excellent!!! I’m learning so much from you ! I’m almost done with the Steampunk coat, I finished the skirt and I love it !!! You are an amazing teacher!
Thank you! I hadn't made a lined dress since before my daughter was born (she's now 2). I wanted to make her a dress but was drawing a blank! This is very helpful.
thank you....I'm sewing my first dress ever! :) So far so good, but I didn't understand what under-stitching was....you totally explained it! Thank you!!!
Thank you so much for this. You were clear in your instructions and the demonstrations were extremely helpful. I'm still learning sewing and don't know all the tricks to it, but this has definitely got me going in the right direction.
Thanik you Thank you! Now I can finish my grandaugters dress for "Relay for Life" a walk for Cancer. Her dress turned out beeeeeeutiful! It is white background with dark pink writing on it say things like, "Never give up, fight for the cure Wear pink, courage, pink ribbon...It turned out gorgeous. I can't wait to show her off in this dress. It is a 24 hour Relay at a High School Field. She will only able to stay for the day. She is 6 yrs old. Thank you so much. I subscribed to your site. You're a great teacher. I am just a slow learner. I am an 8 yr. Breast Cancer Survivor!!!
This is an amazing tutorial you are a fabulous teacher, I look forward to watching your other tutorials. I am self taught and this really helped when my dress pattern doesn’t have a liner. I am making a baby dress with some very light satin. So I am lining to add some thickness.
Very detailed your very good at explaining and show us how to orientate to openings, was very clear but if your new or super stressed out its helpful to have it, extra explained! XX when theres a will theres a way.
Thank you soo much! I was trying to add a lining to my garment and I could not figure out what I had done wrong. Ill be taking out some stitches and adding the lining first. :D
For the longest I've been wanting to learn how to add a lining to patterns that don't call for one. Your explanation and video has been EXTREMELY helpful. I'm SO happy I stumbled upon you channel. Thank you for being thorough and always having beautifully manicured nails.
This was an excellent tutorial. Learnt a lot from it. I really appreciate all that you do. I am new in sewing and your channel and blog have helped me a lot. Can you post a tutorial highlighting 'how to attach a lined bodice to lined sleeves? Thnks
If I was anywhere near you, I would give you the biggest hug. This is so well taught that even an old chick like me can understand it. Thank you, thank you!
Sewing a lining in a bodice is the best and easiest way to finish a garment. Certainly easier than dealing with turning down circular seams or using seam binding.
Thanks so much for yr video, I find your explanation very clear. One question - can us please show how you flip the right side out after sewing. I have difficulty in that and some of yr readers seem to hv the same problem. Thank you.
Love all your tutorials Prof Pincushion. They are part of my reference library on sewing. Thank you. One question please. Do I cut out the lining fabric right sides together as for the main fabric, or cut the lining wrong side together so when you turn it, they will look better?
Thanks for a great tute. I am making a blouse that the pattern doesn't include instructions for a lining but am using a very sheer material. This helped my visualize what I knew had to be done, but could not 'see' in my mind how to get to the end result.
Love this tutorial!! It really helped me out a lot since I never understood how to line. Just one question, how would you add the zipper to any lined garment?
Irene Cake You can attach the zipper to the main fabric before attaching the lining. Then take the lining bodice, turn under the edges that the zipper would be attached to 5/8" (or whatever the seam allowance is). Then sew lining and main fabric together. Lastly, hand stitch folded lining edge to the zipper tape. Hope this helps :)
Great video! Could you do a video on the next stage of attaching the lining to the skirt part of the dress and then attaching to the bodice to complete a fully lined dress. Thank you.
it might not be the same at the dress you're working on but you can watch this tutorial as an example where I go through the construction of a fully lined dress: ua-cam.com/video/jMqItVe_4bk/v-deo.html
Hello Prof, your videos have been really helpful and I appreciate it. However, could you make a video of how to attach a lined skirt to a bodice. Thank you
Brilliant as always! You have taught me so much and I so look forward to your videos. I am a novice sewer but you take all the pain out of problems! I have been making a vest top which has very narrow shoulders and no opening at the back. Is there an easy way to tackle the shoulder seam? Thanks from Annie, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
hmmm....i'm having trouble visualizing this. maybe you can send me a picture and that might help. If you go to our site, professorpincushion.com, there's a tab called Ask A Question and you can post your question and picture there and I'll see if I can help you out. :)
Thanks to your tutorial.... I completed my very first lined top yesterday. It wasn't perfect... but the "fear" is gone, and I'm ready for my next one. Thanks!!!
My next objective is to modify patterns slightly to fit my shape. I'm not one size overall...but rather a little larger on top... oh... and a little shorter all around (5'2). I'lll keep watching your videos... they are excellent!!! BTW -- Your nail lady does a great job too!!!
I really enjoy your tutorials! So i have a blouse that has a neck similar to this one but requires iron on stabilizer for the neck. Would that be attached as normal first then add the lining? This pattern does not include a lining.. but my fabric choice will require one. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I watched it several times. I am making a very similar bodice (lined, sleeveless, round neck), and my question is: what parts am I under-stitching once I have attached the lining? I have not sewn my side seams yet and wondered when/how I would do that since I need room to turn the bodice to the right side again. I am just trying to avoid any seam ripping later!
only understitch where you have a seam. if the side seams are still open, then you don't need to understitch there. And you only understitch where you can get too. If the access is too hard then you can skip it. Understitching isn't mandatory, but it does help a lined garment look neater. good luck! :)
professor, I just cut a most wonderful and most favourite piece of linen (I love linen) using same (very simple) pattern, first three times of this pattern, simple as it is, looked "homemade" - any words of advice for linen - I'm kinda feeling confident enough - last three times doing this pattern I did improve slightly each time, but I do so want my lovely linen to look nice when finished and actually be able to wear it and not toss it out like all the previous stuff
What is the linen doing that you don't like? Most linen wrinkles really easily, which is why I prefer not to make my garments from it. I spend a lot of time ironing it, only for it to look wrinkly again a half hour later. You might be able to get a linen-look type fabric which isn't real linen but wrinkles less.
Professor Pincushion thank you - I'm watching your tutorials, and I can truly say, without reservation, that I am going to postpone my lovely linen - just yesterday went to fabric shop and bought five different remnants to practice more on thanks professor :-)
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! I'm a beginner at sewing and am making my granddaughters American Girl doll clothes and it's confusing to me when all of a sudden I'm instructed to sew in the lining and nowhere in the pattern does it say to cut a lining. I find this so confusing! I'll cut another top and do exactly as you just did. ps...I LOVE your nails...happy sewing!
i wish i saw this video before i did my bodice, cuz the pattern direction never said to do it this way, and looking at how the picture looks and how my bodice and after seeing this video i now know i was supposed to do this
Gracias por compartir, pero si no te molesta quiero hacerte una observación, obviamente tu enseñas los videos en inglés y mucha gente entiende ese idioma, yo lo entiendo mas o menos, pero mucha gente no, y te mira gente de todas partes del mundo y puedes enseñar solo con el video sin necesidad de entenderte el idioma, aquí yo te pediría que cada que hagas la costura vayas volteando el bodice (la prenda) para entenderte mejor... saludos y estoy suscrita a tu canal porque es muy bueno.
Note to future viewers - line a garment is different when you have that front/back opening. If you don’t have that type of opening and the bodice is like a tank top, you have to do a rolling method. Just spent the last 3 hours of my night learning this the hard way *face palm*
i'm creating a garment for my textiles major and ive realised that i dont even know how to attach a lining to the base fabric!! i searched up on youtube 'how to sew lining' and this was the most appealing and assumingly helpful video on lining i found and ends up your tutorial has taught me HEAPS so thank you so very much for this lovely and helpful tutorial!! im very grateful for spending your time on this and your passion for sewing has motivated me to continue creating my garment. while i was watching this video, the second i was wondering how professional garments have their lining always facing on the inside of the garment you happened to explain it that we had to do under stitching and top stitching... its like you read my mind!! how crazy is that haha
Why am I literally in this exact situation rn creating my senior collection lollll glad I’m not alone
Thank you for mentioning how tricky understitching can be! This was definitely something I struggled with and it was nice to know that the struggle is real and the advice to just "do the best I can" really helped alleviate my stress as a beginner sewer!
This video is incredible. The detail in the explanation is perfect for every level of understanding! Thank you!
I realize I'm kind of randomly asking but does anybody know a good website to stream newly released series online ?
@Sebastian Ryder i watch on FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)
@Sebastian Ryder try Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)
Professor P, you are the best sewing teacher ever! I'd consider myself an accomplished home dec sewer, but never sewed garments for myself until recently (thank you, new pattern companies with larger cup sizes!). Years ago, I even sewed lots of little girl dresses using this method but I needed a refresher. I'm going to use this with a lightweight knit bodice on the new Washington dress pattern from Cashmerette. Thank you for your calm, clear instructions.
This is incredibly clear and helpful, thank you for being so patient when explaining details, it really helped me better understand sewing techniques
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen, thank you so much! Very very useful!!!
This makes much more sense than the pattern I'm currently following, very clear and intuitive. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
You are a REAL Professor, very well explained. I can not stop watching the videos. You have a new subscriber :)
thanks so much for subscribing :)
What a brilliant tutorial, very clear, thank you so much.
Thank you SO much for this tutorial! I've been searching for a good clear tutorial on how to line a jacket and this gave me a general idea of how to do it.
Watching this in 2021. First ever sewing project (med student with online classes) and making a hand sewn dress (lined, darts, zipper, pockets)! Your video was the most useful! Subscribed ❤️
How did it turn out?!
This was incredibly helpful to someone that has no sewing guidance. Thank you so much!
Thank you for posting this video. It was EXTREMELY helpful and trying to figure out some pattern instructions.
Loved how clear and easy your instructions were.
Excellent!!! I’m learning so much from you ! I’m almost done with the Steampunk coat, I finished the skirt and I love it !!! You are an amazing teacher!
nice! I'd love to see a picture of your steampunk coat when you finish :)
Thank you! I hadn't made a lined dress since before my daughter was born (she's now 2). I wanted to make her a dress but was drawing a blank! This is very helpful.
thank you....I'm sewing my first dress ever! :) So far so good, but I didn't understand what under-stitching was....you totally explained it! Thank you!!!
+Patty Tikalsky so glad you found our tutorial helpful :)
Thank you so much for this. You were clear in your instructions and the demonstrations were extremely helpful. I'm still learning sewing and don't know all the tricks to it, but this has definitely got me going in the right direction.
+Jennifer Powers yay, glad to help. it'll get easier :)
Thank you so much!! There were so many instructions on my pattern I didn't understand, and your explanation made it MUCH easier
I love this video. Very informative and easy to follow.
I'm going to try adding a lining to a dress pattern I have. Thank you so much for the visuals and tips on this :)
Thanik you Thank you! Now I can finish my grandaugters dress for "Relay for Life" a walk for Cancer. Her dress turned out beeeeeeutiful! It is white background with dark pink writing on it say things like, "Never give up, fight for the cure Wear pink, courage, pink ribbon...It turned out gorgeous. I can't wait to show her off in this dress. It is a 24 hour Relay at a High School Field. She will only able to stay for the day. She is 6 yrs old. Thank you so much. I subscribed to your site. You're a great teacher. I am just a slow learner. I am an 8 yr. Breast Cancer Survivor!!!
This is an amazing tutorial you are a fabulous teacher, I look forward to watching your other tutorials. I am self taught and this really helped when my dress pattern doesn’t have a liner. I am making a baby dress with some very light satin. So I am lining to add some thickness.
This video was so helpful to me as a beginner, i need lots of step by step instructions, thank you so much!
Thank you so much, that covered every single question I had about my dress pattern. Like you were reading my MIND
This is amazingly helpful!
Can't thank you enough.
Just what I needed! Thank you!
Very clear instruction, thank you
You explain so well, and it is really helpful for beginners like me, thank you very much.
Bravo...good concise instruction. Thanks, Teacher.
This was super helpful! Thanks for sharing!
Your videos are gold!
Really helpful to do my gcse textiles. Thank you!
Oh this was so very helpful!!! Thank you
Thank You! You have a video for everything...awesome!
Oh my goodness, this video was SOOOO helpful, thank you!! 😁👍
Your instructions are very clear. Thank you.
This is exactly what I was looking for thank you so much ✨✨✨
Really helpful video! Thank you!
I am totally blown away by your tutes. This one tells me everything….much superior to the pattern I
am working with.
Promise you won’t
go anywhere.
That's beautifully clear, thank you! Subbed
This is very helpful, thank you.
Under-stitching!!! Yea!!!! And top-stitching! Thank you for these details!!
Very helpful tutorial!! Thank you sew much!!
excellent! Really well done. Instructions clearly verbalized and visuals were worth a thousand words. Thank you!
ibiubuok You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful :)
blij met al deze tips.Kan er van leren .
Thank you ! I found this helpful :)
Very helpful, thank you!
Great work 👍👍
I know this is an older tutorial BUT it's still very informative and well explained!! Thank you so much!!!
Excellent like always.
thanks so much! :)
Great video and Tanks for sharing.
Thank you for posting this. This was very clear and very detailed and I have now sibscribed
+syeina thanks for subscribing :)
Very detailed your very good at explaining and show us how to orientate to openings, was very clear but if your new or super stressed out its helpful to have it, extra explained! XX when theres a will theres a way.
Thanks for this video! I’m a beginner, and have no idea how to line a bodice, but this was very helpful. Very good, clear instructions!
Glad it was helpful!
great video!
great tutorial !!!
Wonderful. I have been converting these tutorials to pig suede and so far so good. I will try this with lining my pig suede next.
nofindausername I'm so glad to hear it's working out for you :)
Thank you soo much! I was trying to add a lining to my garment and I could not figure out what I had done wrong. Ill be taking out some stitches and adding the lining first. :D
For the longest I've been wanting to learn how to add a lining to patterns that don't call for one. Your explanation and video has been EXTREMELY helpful. I'm SO happy I stumbled upon you channel. Thank you for being thorough and always having beautifully manicured nails.
+shooaholic thanks for the kind words! so glad you found this helpful :)
This was an excellent tutorial. Learnt a lot from it. I really appreciate all that you do. I am new in sewing and your channel and blog have helped me a lot. Can you post a tutorial highlighting 'how to attach a lined bodice to lined sleeves?
Thnks
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add sleeve lining to my list :)
Thank you
If I was anywhere near you, I would give you the biggest hug. This is so well taught that even an old chick like me can understand it. Thank you, thank you!
I'm so glad you found our tutorial helpful. :)
Sewing a lining in a bodice is the best and easiest way to finish a garment. Certainly easier than dealing with turning down circular seams or using seam binding.
QUE BUENOS SUS TUTORIALES, MUCHAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR.
Luz Edith Rivera You're very welcome. Thanks for watching :)
Thanks so much for yr video, I find your explanation very clear. One question - can us please show how you flip the right side out after sewing.
I have difficulty in that and some of yr readers seem to hv the same problem.
Thank you.
this was incredibly helpful as my pattern did not provide pictures. excellent tutorial.
Love all your tutorials Prof Pincushion. They are part of my reference library on sewing. Thank you. One question please. Do I cut out the lining fabric right sides together as for the main fabric, or cut the lining wrong side together so when you turn it, they will look better?
Thank you🌹
Very nice vedio. Thanks.
Thanks for a great tute. I am making a blouse that the pattern doesn't include instructions for a lining but am using a very sheer material. This helped my visualize what I knew had to be done, but could not 'see' in my mind how to get to the end result.
Tami Lee awesome, glad to help :)
Super helpful, thanks! Your hands are crazy beautiful btw.
I whispered the same to myself..
Love this tutorial!! It really helped me out a lot since I never understood how to line. Just one question, how would you add the zipper to any lined garment?
Irene Cake You can attach the zipper to the main fabric before attaching the lining. Then take the lining bodice, turn under the edges that the zipper would be attached to 5/8" (or whatever the seam allowance is). Then sew lining and main fabric together. Lastly, hand stitch folded lining edge to the zipper tape. Hope this helps :)
Thanks so much
Thank you :)
omg thank you.
thanks so much
Really I like yr method tqvm....
Great video! Could you do a video on the next stage of attaching the lining to the skirt part of the dress and then attaching to the bodice to complete a fully lined dress. Thank you.
it might not be the same at the dress you're working on but you can watch this tutorial as an example where I go through the construction of a fully lined dress: ua-cam.com/video/jMqItVe_4bk/v-deo.html
Hello Prof, your videos have been really helpful and I appreciate it. However, could you make a video of how to attach a lined skirt to a bodice. Thank you
Thanks for your great video Tutorial|. May I please ask for a tutorial on how to attatch a lined sleeve to a lined bodice? Thanks
Brilliant as always! You have taught me so much and I so look forward to your videos. I am a novice sewer but you take all the pain out of problems! I have been making a vest top which has very narrow shoulders and no opening at the back. Is there an easy way to tackle the shoulder seam? Thanks from Annie, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
hmmm....i'm having trouble visualizing this. maybe you can send me a picture and that might help. If you go to our site, professorpincushion.com, there's a tab called Ask A Question and you can post your question and picture there and I'll see if I can help you out. :)
excelente
Very informative!sewing is fun, when you are a beginner you just need to be patient.I wanted to see how you fix the zipper on a lined dress.
Thanks to your tutorial.... I completed my very first lined top yesterday. It wasn't perfect... but the "fear" is gone, and I'm ready for my next one. Thanks!!!
Jane Frances Marchante yes! You can do it! :D
My next objective is to modify patterns slightly to fit my shape. I'm not one size overall...but rather a little larger on top... oh... and a little shorter all around (5'2). I'lll keep watching your videos... they are excellent!!!
BTW -- Your nail lady does a great job too!!!
Professor Pincushion How do I close the bottom of the bodice? Do I hem the lining and fabric piece seperately?
This is amazing! Thank you so much. Could I just ask what size stitch are you using for the under stitching? Would it be a smallish stitch?
I just use a regular length so on my machine it's a 2.5
Your instructions are excellent...thank you! The speed and detail is perfect.
+Chasing Whimsy Portrait Art Thank you so much for the kind words :)
I really enjoy your tutorials! So i have a blouse that has a neck similar to this one but requires iron on stabilizer for the neck. Would that be attached as normal first then add the lining? This pattern does not include a lining.. but my fabric choice will require one.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I watched it several times. I am making a very similar bodice (lined, sleeveless, round neck), and my question is: what parts am I under-stitching once I have attached the lining? I have not sewn my side seams yet and wondered when/how I would do that since I need room to turn the bodice to the right side again. I am just trying to avoid any seam ripping later!
only understitch where you have a seam. if the side seams are still open, then you don't need to understitch there. And you only understitch where you can get too. If the access is too hard then you can skip it. Understitching isn't mandatory, but it does help a lined garment look neater. good luck! :)
Thank you. Do you also have instructions for sewing in a bodice lining when the bodice has sleeves?
professor, I just cut a most wonderful and most favourite piece of linen (I love linen) using same (very simple) pattern, first three times of this pattern, simple as it is, looked "homemade" - any words of advice for linen - I'm kinda feeling confident enough - last three times doing this pattern I did improve slightly each time, but I do so want my lovely linen to look nice when finished and actually be able to wear it and not toss it out like all the previous stuff
What is the linen doing that you don't like? Most linen wrinkles really easily, which is why I prefer not to make my garments from it. I spend a lot of time ironing it, only for it to look wrinkly again a half hour later. You might be able to get a linen-look type fabric which isn't real linen but wrinkles less.
Professor Pincushion thank you - I'm watching your tutorials, and I can truly say, without reservation, that I am going to postpone my lovely linen - just yesterday went to fabric shop and bought five different remnants to practice more on
thanks professor :-)
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! I'm a beginner at sewing and am making my granddaughters American Girl doll clothes and it's confusing to me when all of a sudden I'm instructed to sew in the lining and nowhere in the pattern does it say to cut a lining. I find this so confusing! I'll cut another top and do exactly as you just did. ps...I LOVE your nails...happy sewing!
I think I missed the part where you turned it inside out. How do you do that? Do you have another video on that technique? Thank you!
The haters in your comment sections make me laugh. I wonder how far I need to go before someone complains about ironing.
i wish i saw this video before i did my bodice, cuz the pattern direction never said to do it this way, and looking at how the picture looks and how my bodice and after seeing this video i now know i was supposed to do this
the next time should be easier though :) don't give up!
I must have done something wrong :( great tutorial. I am just gonna try tomorrow.
Gracias por compartir, pero si no te molesta quiero hacerte una observación, obviamente tu enseñas los videos en inglés y mucha gente entiende ese idioma, yo lo entiendo mas o menos, pero mucha gente no, y te mira gente de todas partes del mundo y puedes enseñar solo con el video sin necesidad de entenderte el idioma, aquí yo te pediría que cada que hagas la costura vayas volteando el bodice (la prenda) para entenderte mejor... saludos y estoy suscrita a tu canal porque es muy bueno.
Note to future viewers - line a garment is different when you have that front/back opening. If you don’t have that type of opening and the bodice is like a tank top, you have to do a rolling method. Just spent the last 3 hours of my night learning this the hard way *face palm*
Beautiful hands
sooo...did I miss how you close the side seams properly once the lining is attached?
That’s my question too.........
This is what I'm doing now. My lessons have finished for the summer but so behind on my dress.
I'm so glad to hear that you're sticking with it. I'm sure you're just getting better and better :)