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Heg86-205 Sewing Ups And Downs: Placement Of Fabric And/Or Garment Pieces For Machine Sewing, Anna Marie White

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide describes how to position fabric and garment pieces during construction to facilitate sewing and achieve a more professional look.

Sewing, like much of life, has its ups and downs. Sewing ups and downs might be thought of as successes or frustrations, but the ups and downs referred to here are intended to prevent frustration at the sewing machine during garment construction.

G85-758 Protective Clothing And Equipment For Pesticide Appliactors (Revised September 2002), Larry D. Schulze, Clyde Ogg

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Pesticides are valuable pest management tools, and like any tool, they must be used carefully and responsibly. Minimizing exposure is an important first step toward reducing your risk of pesticide poisoning. The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) provides benefits to the applicator and is a visual expression of appropriate and legal pesticide use.\

Use all pesticides safely. Read the pesticide product label and comply with all directions. Failure to do so may not only subject you to state and/or federal penalties, but it also may place you, your family, and the environment at a greater risk of pesticide exposure.

Heg84-196 Short Cut Tailoring Techniques: Finishing The Hem, Rose Marie Tondl

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide provides methods for finishing the hems on jackets and coats, with attention to back vents, front facings, and eliminating bulk from the hem.

An inconspicuous hem is a mark of quality construction. A properly finished hem in a tailored garment helps to achieve a professional look and adds the final touch.

Heg84-199 Topstitching, Rose Marie Tondl

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide describes the use of topstitching on jackets and coats, including techniques and materials required for a professional look.

Topstitching is an important yet distinctive finishing touch to a jacket or coat. Not only is it decorative, but a line of topstitching helps to keep interfacings in place, creates a neat, crisp edge on a tailored jacket, and accents seams. Topstitching can be done in various places on the garment, including lapels, pockets and pocket flaps, hems, cuffs, pleats, waistbands and major seams.

Heg84-198 Short Cut Tailoring Techniques: Under And Uppercollar Units, Rose Marie Tondl

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide describes methods for shaping and attaching the under and uppercollar units to facilitate achieving a professional tailored look.

Tailoring is the process of using sewing and pressing techniques to mold and build shape into the garment fabric, define the garment edges and reduce bulk. Tailoring no longer means hours of hand sewing and pad stitching. Today, fusible interfacings and the use of the sewing machine can give similar results formerly obtained only through endless patience and determination.

Tailoring is easier today because pattern styles, fashions, fabrics and sewing products have changed all for the better. A source of …

Heg84-197 Short Cut Tailoring Techniques: Shoulder Shapes, Rose Marie Tondl

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide provides instructions on how to make and attach shoulder shapes and sleeve heads to give jackets and coats a smooth, professional look.

Padding or shaping through the shoulder area gives a smooth appearance to a jacket or coat. It also helps to fill out the hollow just beneath the front shoulder and is useful to disguise such figure faults as round, thin, narrow or sloping shoulders. If one shoulder is higher than the other, one shoulder can be padded more than the other so that the garment shoulder lines are the same when the garment is worn. Making …

Heg84-192 Analyzing Color In Your Wardrobe, Thelma Thompson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Color is a powerful design element in our environment and our wardrobes. Although color is only one facet of design, it is usually the one that first attracts us to clothing. To learn how to use color, we need to understand the meaning of such terms as hue, value and intensity, and how to combine colors in pleasing harmonies.

This NebGuide discusses the importance of color in your wardrobe and offers suggestions on how to select colors to complement your personal coloring.

Heg83-173 Follow That Grainline, Linda K. Biles

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This publication covers the importance of following fabric grainline in pattern layout and cutting, staystitching, sewing seams, pressing, topstitching and fitting for a professional-looking garment.

Strict attention to the grainline is one of the most critical factors in cutting and sewing professional-looking garments. Following the grainline is important when pinning the pattern to the fabric, cutting the fabric, and sewing the garment.

Heg81-137 Sewing For Children (Revised November 1984), Rose Marie Tondl

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses issues that should be considered when sewing for children.

Sewing for children can be great fun and a real opportunity to express your creativity. Before you decide to sew, however, ask yourself these questions:

Do I have enough skill to make the garment satisfactorily?

Do I own a sewing machine that is in good operating condition?

Do I have time to sew?

Do I enjoy sewing?

Will the finished garment be a source of pride for me and my child?

Am I able to determine which garments can be made at home at a real savings, and …

Heg81-147 Seam Finishes, Linda K. Biles

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Learn to recognize different types of seam finishes, their advantages, and how to sew them.

A seam finish is a treatment applied to the raw edge of a seam allowance to prevent the fabric from fraying. It may also add a touch of beauty to the inside of an unlined garment.

Heg77-76 Pressing Methods (Revised April 1981), Thelma Thompson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses pressing methods that will not mar or distort the fabric.

A skillful job of pressing requires time, practice and the use of methods that will not mar the fabric. Pressing should not make the fabric shine, flatten the pile or nap, or distort the texture or weave.

Pressing is not ironing. In ironing, the iron is pushed from one spot to another in an unbroken motion to remove wrinkles. In pressing, the iron is lifted up and set down in a particular spot to flatten or shape small areas. To prevent the fabric from stretching, do not …

Heg76-36 Sewing With Plaids (Revised January 1987), Rose Marie Tondl

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide contains useful suggestions for sewing with plaids.

Plaids remain popular and have no season. They can create dramatic effects, be dainty, gay, subtle or forceful. Their coloring may be rich, subdued or bizarre, depending upon the spacing combination and intensity of colors. Whatever the desired effect, perfection in matching plaids can make an inexpensive dress look expensive.

Heg76-42 Wool And Wool Blends (Revised January 1985), Rose Marie Tondl

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide contains information about buying and sewing wool and wool blends.

Wool is a unique fiber. It is a natural fiber made from the fleece of sheep. Wool fabrics are not all alike. They come in a variety of textures and weights. Wool can be sheer, thin, soft, thick, stiff or anything in between. Wool fabrics are constructed by weaving, knitting or felting.