Finishing techniques can take your hand knit or crocheted item from practical to spectacular. This is one method I use for lining a finished knit or crocheted project with silk.
Materials:
- Finished project, washed &/or blocked to final size
- Large paper (plain wrapping paper, recycled packaging paper, brown grocery bags cut open, etc.) You may need to tape sheets together.
- Pencil
- Pins, weights and, if applicable, a blocking board for stretching garments with negative ease.
- Sewing thread
- Silk (select a weight and finish with good drape and hand, matching the drape of your knit or crocheted item, a heavier silk is better when pairing with a heavy knitted item), washed and steam pressed
- Interfacing (optional, depending on your project)
Method:
Lay the project on top of your paper, pinning or adding weights (cans of soup work well) to ensure it does not move. If your project fabric has a lot of stretch, you will need to stretch it out on the paper and weigh it down to stay in place.
- Trace around the project.
- Remove your project and cut outside the outline you have made by about 1/2". This will be your seam allowance.
- Lay your pattern on the silk and carefully pin or weigh it down, then cut out the silk.
- Cut out the interfacing, if using, and trim away 1/2" for your rolled hem.
- Create a rolled hem around the silk. See my video tutorial below.
- Pin the silk to your project, stretching as needed to accommodate negative ease.
- Carefully sew the lining to the inside of your project, picking up only a part of the yarn strand with your sewing needle. This will prevent the lining thread from appearing on the right side of your project.
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