Thank you for a good tutorial that I was able to follow to line the vent in my coat. I looked at a lot of tutorials and yours was the only one that was easy to follow. Please keep showing all the techniques you know. Thanks again.
I've been watching instructional sewing videos for about 9 years. You and a few other mentions should be noted as the Founding Ladies of RU-vid Sewing Instructional Videos. I appreciate your clear explanation and instruction. your videography and your audio recordings have always been sublime. You are more than just a "RU-vidr", you, my lady are a master in your class. Thank you.
Thank you for this very clear tutorial! I am watching it again before I do my second vent by your method. It's the best way I've ever tried! I hope that by the next skirt I sew, I will have it down, but just in case I can't quite remember, I'm glad to come back by here and see your instructions again. A side note: it's so enjoyable to watch your hands at work: very beautiful hands that God gave you.
Great video; easy to follow and at a good pace! Would be brilliant to show how to draft the lining pattern. I sort of figured it out from a lining for a facing slit. Should one sew the lining to the zip first before sewing it to the vent or vice versa?
Drafting your own patterns can be long and complicated. I'll certainly think about demonstrating certain elements of pattern drafting at some point but not yet. Thanks for the comment.
You can change a slit into a vent prior to making up the skirt, but if it's already made up, then this may prove difficult as it means adding more fabric. If your sewing pattern has no alteration markings already, you'll need to make the alteration on the wiggle skirt below hip level, drawing a line from one end of the pattern piece to the other, cut, then fold up the amount you need to take out.
Hi there, many thanks for answering my questions. My confession is that lazily i made a skirt with a back slit instead of a vent because i couldn't work out how to redraft the original pattern as it was made for a taller person! So my 2 questions are: Can i change a slit in to a vent to an excisting skirt? I now understand the importance of vents! How do you shorten the length on a skirt pattern?
I was wondering if you could do a video in stages of course on how to sew a pencil lined skirt from start to finish. I can never follow a pattern directions I'm a visual learner! Thanks!
Have you ever used this method to make surgeons cuffs on a jacket with mitered sleeves.? I really want to try it.something tells me yes but keeps spinning. It is the one thing a mark of an TRUE experience tailor can do? Can you help! Thank you love your channel!
It's a little bit more difficult with a circle skirt because you'll have to make sure the line you draw is curved so once the portion has been removed, taper the side seams.
I was taught to hem lining ahead of time and place 1/2" above pressed up hem of garment fabric. Fold hem back upon itself with lining sandwiched in between, and sew like shown in video. When you turn hem right side out, lining will be encased in seam with a lovely clean finish
Najon Brand Anytime. I should also mention, press up the hem first so you have a sharp line to fold back on. Make a TINY snip in the crease at the edge of the fold and it will turn right side out easier once sewn.
The dresses i am making are 50's style, bodice with either cirle skirt or wiggle skirt but the skirt part always seems to be much longer than we would want and i need to shorten them to knee length
Hi Coleen, just watched your tutorial about how to sew the lining to a vent. You say that the vent lining pattern is different from the garment vent. I am sewing a skirt which didn't have the lining pattern included, I am doing the pattern myself. What I should take in consideration while I am drawing the overlap and the underlap lining? Thank you, your tutorial is extremely helpful Samantha
Im confused... Is there a video where you actually show how to cut the back lining itself? Pls let me know. And also, do i have to sew the back lining before sewing the whole skirt together?
Hi! I saw this and I'm thinking to create a "faux lining" that would just be seen from the vent. If I use a lining material and a heavy suiting crepe, would the garment still be machine washable?
Thank you for this wonderful video! It might only be me, but I had a little trouble hearing this and would appreciate it if you could record the volume a little louder, please. I had it turned all the way up, and it was difficult to hear. I don't have external speakers, I'm sorry...just my laptop :-(
Hola...es la abertura en la que se ve la misma tela de la falda al caminar...y va cosida al forro...mi duda es si se hacen aberturas en los costados del forro para poder caminar cómodamente....saludos
hey colleen, i followed your first vent sewing tutorial, where you instruct to turn under the edge of the vent before doing anything else. in this tutorial, however, it seems as though the edges are not turned down. it's hard to undo the turning of the vent edges since it was the very first step in the first video..help!
cooganb It really does all depend on where you stop sewing and where your last stitch is placed. If you're going to add lining, try stopping a little before the end which will allow for an allowance where the lining can be attached.
Would this also work for making a vent in a sleeve to make a working button cuff? Struggling to find a good tutorial how to do it on machine. Bored of hand-sewing multiple linings 😂
Hi Elizabeth, Once you have sewn the lining vent just cut to the seam allowance, and yes the skirt will be completed all that is left is to turn up the hem.
