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sewing in soft stretch elastic questions

donnas_gw
13 years ago

Hi....I think this elastic is called Soft Stretch elastic. It's been so long since I've bought any, but had some left over from another project.

I am putting this elastic in a pair of shorts for myself. I'm going to run it through the casing and then stitch the opening closed. On the outside, I want to do about 3 or 4 rows of topstitching.

1)Do I stretch the elastic as I'm top-stitching? If so, how much?

2)Should I cut the elastic my waist size (plus 1" for stitching ends together), or should I cut it smaller? I have alot of experience in sewing, but not when it comes to topstitching over elastic. Thank you.

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