How to Hand-tack Facings in Place

with Meg Healy | Duration: 6:43 minutesRun Time: 7 minutes

Any garment that has an edge finished with a facing needs to be hand tacked down in place. This makes sure that the facing outer edge does not flip outside of the garment and hand tacking it in place really makes the facing lay flat and also results in a garment that wears better and looks professional. This technique is essential to sewing and properly finishing the inside of a garment. In this video Meg will demonstrate the best and most discrete ways of attaching the facing edges to the seam allowances of the garment.

You’ll love this video if:

• If you are want to learn more hand sewing techniques
• You want to secure an armhole, neckline, waistline, or any other facings’ edge in place

You will learn:

• How to hand tack a neckline’s facing to the shoulder seam allowance
• How to secure the bottom of a center front slit’s facing in place
• How to sew the edge of a facing not to a seam allowance and instead the garment’s self fabric (invisible hand tack from the right side)

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A note from the presenter:

“I especially love and use the invisible hand tacking technique so I can’t see the stitches from the right side of my garment, and my facing is still so secure on the inside!” Meg Healy