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whafi.com http://whafi.com/sewing-techniques/how-to-make-your-own-piping How to make your own piping WHAT IS IT? Piping is a decorative trim made from folded bias strips of fabric. It’s often filled with cord to give it a rounded look. Piping adds emphasis and outlines areas of the garment, adds a touch of contrast color and adds structure to seams. You can buy premade piping in solid colors, or you can make your own! Piping Piping on Tofino Pants WHEN DO YOU USE IT? Piping can be added to just about any seam! You can insert it along seam lines or along edges. Piping looks great added to a waistline seam, across the neckline, around collars and lapels, inserted between the facing and lining, around cuffs, in between a ruffle and a skirt on a hemline and along princess seams. Piping can be tonal and match the garment, or it can be a contrast color. Adding solid piping is a nice way to outline a printed garment. Piping is sewn to the garment pieces before the seam is sewn or before the facing is attached. Tips + Notes Striped or plaid bias tape will make neat diagonal striped piping! Piping can make seams a little stiffer, so keep that in mind when adding piping to your garments. Stiffness is good for waistlines and necklines, but not so good for seams that cross the body, as it will restrict your movement. HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PIPING CORDED PIPING Start with a length of bias tape. (See page link for instructions on making your own bias tape.) Cut a length of cording to match the bias tape. Look for cording that’s 1⁄8″–¼” (3mm–6mm) wide. Fold bias tape around the cording with the wrong sides together. Line up the raw edges. Baste close to the cording with a zipper foot. FLAT PIPING You can skip the cording step to make flat piping, if you prefer the look. To make flat piping, fold bias tape in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press. Baste along raw edges. HOW TO SEW PIPING INTO SEAMS Baste piping to one side of the seam, with the right side facing up. Place the piping along the stitching line, so that when you sew a 5⁄8″ (1.5cm) seam, you are sewing as close as you can to the piping. This may mean the raw edges of the piping are not in line with the fabric’s raw edges. If you are sewing piping between a gathered and straight edge, baste the piping to the straight edge. If you are sewing piping to a curved seam, clip or notch (page link) the piping so that it can curve around the corner without puckers. For inside curves, notch the piping seam allowance to reduce bulk and eliminate the chance of puckers. For outside curves, clip the piping seam allowance around the curved area so it can form around the corner.

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How to make your own piping

WHAT IS IT?

Piping is a decorative trim made from folded bias strips of fabric. It’s often filled with cord to give it a rounded look.Piping adds emphasis and outlines areas of the garment, adds a touch of contrast color and adds structure toseams. You can buy premade piping in solid colors, or you can make your own!

Piping

Piping on Tofino Pants

WHEN DO YOU USE IT?

Piping can be added to just about any seam! You can insertit along seam lines or along edges. Piping looks great addedto a waistline seam, across the neckline, around collars andlapels, inserted between the facing and lining, around cuffs,in between a ruffle and a skirt on a hemline and alongprincess seams. Piping can be tonal and match the garment,or it can be a contrast color.

Adding solid piping is a nice way to outline a printed garment. Piping is sewn to the garment pieces before theseam is sewn or before the facing is attached.

Tips + Notes

Striped or plaid bias tape will make neat diagonal striped piping!

Piping can make seams a little stiffer, so keep that in mind when adding piping to your garments. Stiffnessis good for waistlines and necklines, but not so good for seams that cross the body, as it will restrict yourmovement.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PIPING

CORDED PIPING

Start with a length of bias tape. (See page link for instructions on making your own bias tape.) Cut a length ofcording to match the bias tape. Look for cording that’s 1⁄8″–¼” (3mm–6mm) wide. Fold bias tape around thecording with the wrong sides together. Line up the raw edges.

Baste close to the cording with a zipper foot.

FLAT PIPING

You can skip the cording step to make flat piping, if you prefer the look. To make flat piping, fold bias tape in halflengthwise, wrong sides together, and press. Baste along raw edges.

HOW TO SEW PIPING INTO SEAMS

Baste piping to one side of the seam, with the right side facing up. Place the piping along the stitching line, so thatwhen you sew a 5⁄8″ (1.5cm) seam, you are sewing as close as you can to the piping. This may mean the rawedges of the piping are not in line with the fabric’s raw edges. If you are sewing piping between a gathered andstraight edge, baste the piping to the straight edge.

If you are sewing piping to a curved seam, clip or notch (page link) the piping so that it can curve around thecorner without puckers. For inside curves, notch the piping seam allowance to reduce bulk and eliminate thechance of puckers.

For outside curves, clip the piping seam allowance around the curved area so it can form around the corner.

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When sewing piping around a corner, clip into the seam allowance at the corner point and bend the piping at a 90°angle.

Place the other side of the seam on top of the side with the piping attached, right sides together, with the pipingsandwiched in between the two layers.

Sew close to the piping using a zipper foot or a piping foot, if you have one.

Trim the piping to 1⁄8″ (3mm) between the seam allowances. Trim or finish seams as desired.

HOW TO END A PIPED SEAM

If you are sewing piping in a circle, for example around a neckline or a cuff, overlap the ends and curve themtoward the seam allowance.If you are sewing toward an edge that will be enclosed in another seam, curve the piping toward the seamallowance just before the seam line of the crossing seam.

Piping curved toward seam allowance

Source : The Sewtionary An A to Z Guide to 101 Sewing Techniques + DefinitionsAbout the Author : Tasia ST. Germaine

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