How to hide the over-lock line?

Hello, my readers! I know, sometimes, your wondering why the new veil or sateen shirt is destroyed after one washing since you paid attention not to wash it with high temperature... If you look closely,  you can see that the problem is at the sewing line and not on the fabric (except if you bought some cheep chines shirt)...

Most young designers\sewers don't care about the high quality of the garment. If you buy from a new up-comer, you have to be careful, because there is a chance that after one washing your garment will be destroyed.

In this post I want to write about how to make a strong sewing line and  hide the over-lock line.

For this technique you have to leave 1-2 cm for the finishing (depends on your over-lock). After you calculated your pattern, place it on the fabric, leave 2 cm and start cutting. When you start to assemble the garment, place the fabric with the back side and sew on the color of the material at 1.2 cm.

assembling the fabric

After you sewed the material start cutting off the remains with the over-lock. If you have a 4-5 line over-lock, it's not necessary to use simple sewing.

 If you think that there's too much remains you have to cut down, you can leave less.

 My over-lock line is not that beautiful thus I like to hide it.

After the over-lock sewing, iron the line on the back part of the garment.

Flip the fabric on the back side and sew down with simple line at 7-8 cm depending on the over-lock line. Be careful, you have to sew 2-3 mm side by the over-lock, if you don't, it will look ugly on the color of the material. 

This is the final look on the back of the material. I think it's nicer than a simple over-lock line and it's way more resistant.

This is the color of the material. You don't see any difference between a simple sewing or using this technique.

I hope you learned something form this post, and for now on you can watch out, and buy quality cloths.... or sew...