Comments on: How to sew V necklines with facings

By: Ramona Hansraj

Ramona Hansraj — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:51:55 +0000

Thank you ever so much. I am a self learner and I have been helping myself by sewing for myself and my boys and husband and I read a lot of sewing books and got ideas and now there’s the internet. There are so many little methods that are unknown to me but I get through. Thank you for this info you have helped me a lot and I now know what I have been doing wrong. God bless you. You are a great teacher.

By: Carol Williams

Carol Williams — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:05:34 +0000

I just discovered your website today. I wish I knew about it a month ago. I just finished the Queen’s dress for an upcoming Sleeping Beauty play. The shoulder and armhole and V neck would have looked better if I had seen your tutorials before. I am an experienced seamstress but not nearly professional. I made this dress from crepe backed satin and I’m sure I would have been happier (I’m somewhat of a perfectionist) with the finished product had I read your tutorials beforehand. Thanks for sharing your expertice with all the rest of us in the cloud who don’t know these tips like the pros do.

By: alicia

alicia — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:29:13 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial! Just wondering – do you have any tips for finishing necklines & armholes with bias strips? I am wondering how they are sewn professionally. I can never get mine (despite trying various tutorials I have found online) to lay flat and not look like total crap.

Thanks again.

By: Josie

Josie — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:30:11 +0000

Great tutorial, I wish I had know this last week. Precise and professional looking.

Muitissimo obrigado

Many Thanks

By: Yvonne Mary

Yvonne Mary — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:17:45 +0000

So, so clear. Thankyou. Some of us in the church choir like to make our own blouses being more economical. To achieve the same results as the professional dressmaker on a V neck has always been our problem until now.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:25:43 +0000

Thank you so much, this does help me and I will try this technique on my next scrub. Thank you sew much.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:10:37 +0000

You rock! Making myself crazy trying to get scrub top to look professional. Thanks so much for the excellent pics and easy instructions. These things just don’t come naturally to some of us….

By: Haley Bazley

Haley Bazley — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:42:00 +0000

Thanks. My sailor/vintage dress was looking terrible and I didn’t know how to remedy it.

Perfect explanation. *two thumbs*

By: Charlene

Charlene — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:19 +0000

Kathleen,
Thank you so much for responding to my email. The pattern has a pattern piece called neckband, and has you fold the two strips in half lengthwise WRONG sides together then placing one on top of the other to form a V and sew to neck edge and pivoting around the V. So hard to do. Any suggestions? Did I make sense? Anyway, thank you again.
Charlene

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:32:13 +0000

Charlene, I have no idea how they're telling you to perform this operation and I don't know what the pattern looks like. The way I've done it is using the same concept as a shirt sleeve placket. See this entry, there's a lot to wade through (fore and aft) but I hope you'll understand what I mean. Cut a sample neckline and straight strip to try it out. Hth.