Today’s Love Notion Feature Friday pattern is the Serenity Sweater and is $5 today (7/26/24) only! Use code 10WHITNEY for an additional 10% off sale price*: www.lovenotions.com/product/serenity-sweater?affiliates=436 Newsletter: www.tomkatstitchery.com/newsletter KNIT E-book: www.tomkatstitchery.com/knitebook
Highly recommend any of Whitney’s classes, the Pattern Fitting changed my sewing game. No, she didn’t ask me to say nothing but if you’re on the fence, do it. I’ve had I don’t know how many fit classes but Whitney presents it and offers so many resources, it made sense to me above others I have taken. FWIW
I started watching your channel because of your excellent sewing skills. While I have a lot of sewing experience, I always learned something watching you at the sewing machine. I miss seeing those videos. It was great to see you showing a sewing technique. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
I find that the stretch and body in the fabric are also important to consider when determining the length of a neckband. I sure appreciate your tutorials.
Great tutorial, Whitney. I really prefer a v-neck, so this is a great hack for me. Thanks! (It strikes me, though, that Americans must be a lot better at fractions than we Metric users are.. 😂)
Happy to see this video, and perhaps it is my non math mind but should you not add the ⅜ seal allowance as when you go in ⅜ and measure the circumference it is a larger number. I suspect fir most knits this may not be critical. Or is that the allowance so the band us slightly smaller to get it to lie flat. Or is this what you talked about not adding and subtracting the seam allowances. And it is only 8 AM and I have not had my coffee. If I have made this too complicated delete my comment so no one else can see how dumb I am 😂😂😂
This isn't a dumb question at all! The math can get confusing. Technically, you can go in and add the seam allowance to the neckband. I just don't because making it a bit smaller is never a bad thing. You want to have to stretch that neckband as you sew so that it lays flat against the body.
This is such a helpful tutorial: I never learned to do this in my sewing class in the 1980s 😅 Also... did I hear Gidget softly snoring in the background? 😃
This is a very helpful and useful video. Can you tell me is curve runner the official name of the wheel you used for measureing the length of the neckline? I want one and didn't find it on Amazon!!
Yes. It's called the Curve Runner. I bought mine from The Sewing Workshop, but they don't appear to carry them anymore. However, it does look like you can find them on Etsy.
It does not make sense to me that you measure the the neck cutting line and take away from that (SA). The sewing line is bigger than the cutting line. I usually just measure the cutting lines (knowing it’s not the sewing line) and multiply it by ,80 or, 90 depending on the fabric
The knit is pretty forgiving and the difference between the cutting and sewing line is minimal in the grand scheme of things (with knits). We just want that neckband to be smaller than the neckline so that it lays flat when worn. I've just found that making the neckband 15% smaller than the neckline gives me the flattest neckline the most often.
Today’s Love Notion Feature Friday pattern is the Serenity Sweater and is $5 today (7/26/24) only! Use code 10WHITNEY for an additional 10% off sale price*: www.lovenotions.com/product/serenity-sweater?affiliates=436
Newsletter: www.tomkatstitchery.com/newsletter
KNIT E-book: www.tomkatstitchery.com/knitebook
Highly recommend any of Whitney’s classes, the Pattern Fitting changed my sewing game. No, she didn’t ask me to say nothing but if you’re on the fence, do it. I’ve had I don’t know how many fit classes but Whitney presents it and offers so many resources, it made sense to me above others I have taken. FWIW
I completely agree with you!
Thank you for those kind words of endorsement! I'm so glad you are using what you learned!
I started watching your channel because of your excellent sewing skills. While I have a lot of sewing experience, I always learned something watching you at the sewing machine. I miss seeing those videos. It was great to see you showing a sewing technique. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
I can definitely do more techniques at the sewing machine! Let me know if there is something specific you'd like to see!
thank you Whitney xx Karen
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I find that the stretch and body in the fabric are also important to consider when determining the length of a neckband.
I sure appreciate your tutorials.
Absolutely! I'm glad you enjoyed!
Great tutorial, Whitney. I really prefer a v-neck, so this is a great hack for me. Thanks! (It strikes me, though, that Americans must be a lot better at fractions than we Metric users are.. 😂)
😂 I think doing this in metric units would be much easier. Fractions get confusing!
Great tutorial, Whitney!
Thank you!! 😊
Happy to see this video, and perhaps it is my non math mind but should you not add the ⅜ seal allowance as when you go in ⅜ and measure the circumference it is a larger number. I suspect fir most knits this may not be critical. Or is that the allowance so the band us slightly smaller to get it to lie flat. Or is this what you talked about not adding and subtracting the seam allowances. And it is only 8 AM and I have not had my coffee. If I have made this too complicated delete my comment so no one else can see how dumb I am 😂😂😂
This isn't a dumb question at all! The math can get confusing. Technically, you can go in and add the seam allowance to the neckband. I just don't because making it a bit smaller is never a bad thing. You want to have to stretch that neckband as you sew so that it lays flat against the body.
Can you please link the neck line video that you mentioned? Thank you
It was the Knit Sewing Essentials class that I referenced and you can find out more about that here: www.tomkatstitchery.com/KSE
This is such a helpful tutorial: I never learned to do this in my sewing class in the 1980s 😅 Also... did I hear Gidget softly snoring in the background? 😃
I'm glad it was helpful. Yes, Gidget was snoring. Her super power is to fall into a deep sleep quickly. 😂
This is a very helpful and useful video. Can you tell me is curve runner the official name of the wheel you used for measureing the length of the neckline? I want one and didn't find it on Amazon!!
Yes. It's called the Curve Runner. I bought mine from The Sewing Workshop, but they don't appear to carry them anymore. However, it does look like you can find them on Etsy.
@@TomKatStitchery thank you. I just ordered one!!
Great tutorial, as always! Thanks for switching to Sharpie’s for our viewing?
You bet!
It does not make sense to me that you measure the the neck cutting line and take away from that (SA). The sewing line is bigger than the cutting line.
I usually just measure the cutting lines (knowing it’s not the sewing line) and multiply it by ,80 or, 90 depending on the fabric
The knit is pretty forgiving and the difference between the cutting and sewing line is minimal in the grand scheme of things (with knits). We just want that neckband to be smaller than the neckline so that it lays flat when worn. I've just found that making the neckband 15% smaller than the neckline gives me the flattest neckline the most often.
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Oops! That should have been a ! Not a ?
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lol…😂 the math confused me….great hack though
I'm glad it was helpful!