How To Complete A Seam

I'm now going to show you how to start a seam properly so that your stitching doesn't come undone. What you do: set your machine up ready to sew and we're going to sew two stitches forwards. So, normal stitches.

One, two. Then I'm going to reverse, so hold down my reverse button - my reverse button's over here on the right, yours also might be up here near the needle - hold it down and then press down on the foot pedal, go back a couple of stitches and then carry on. And that means your stitching is secure, so if you put any pressure, like here where I didn't, if I put pressure, that's not going to come undone.

So here I am getting to the end of my seam and I'm going to come quite close to the edge and then I'm going to hold my reverse button down, go back two stitches, let go and then come back. So I stopped just at the edge of the fabric, I hold down my reverse button and I go back for two or three stitches. It's pretty much a standard amount of stitches that you go back to, regardless of your fabric.

You don't want to go any more than four or five stitches because then it can look bulky and can look messy. So just a couple, that's it, that's enough and then come back. And there you see, I've reversed back over and that means when I try and pull it, it's nice and secure.

If your seam is going to be on a place where it takes a lot of strain, you may want to make it a little bit like four stitches. But don't do any more than that. .