How To: Tailor’s Tacks

Learn how to sew a Tailor’s Tack and record details from your pattern onto your fabric. In this tutorial I explain the uses of a Tailor’s Tack, the thread I use to mark my fabric and how to complete a Tailor’s Tack.

How To: Sewing Darts: https://youtu.be/T3zEAKe9VX4
How To: Thread Tracing: https://youtu.be/SwOrYxd-vWQ
How To: Mark Fabric with Carbon Paper: https://youtu.be/ihU34p9aiGY

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PRODUCTS:
Small Scissors – Gingher 5″ Knife Edge – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gingher-Tailors-Scissors-Leather-Sheath/dp/B000I60XVC.
Clover Magnetic Pin Caddy – http://www.madetosew.com/product/clover-magnetic-pin-caddy/
Steel Pins (34 x 0.6mm) – http://www.williamgee.co.uk/shop/hardened-and-tempered-steel-pins/#.VZQd6mAxEUU
Needles – Prym Sharps 5-9 – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prym-Hand-Sewing-Needles-Sharps/dp/B003SMIAZ4

Cotton Basting / Tacking Thread – http://www.empressmills.co.uk/shop/sewing-threads/general-purpose-sewing-thread/tacking-thread/
Silk Basting / Tacking Thread – http://www.empressmills.co.uk/shop/sewing-threads/pure-silk-threads/spun-silk-thread/
Gutermann Silk Thread – http://www.sewessential.co.uk/haberdashery/threads/hand-and-machine-sewing-threads/gutermann-silk-thread

Music:
Lucy, Plastic Flowers (2015) from http://freemusicarchive.org/

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