The Last Stitch | Live: Sewing Activewear @Thelaststitch | Uploaded January 2018 | Updated October 2024, 24 minutes ago.
Hear me share my best tips for sewing activewear!
My book Sewing Activewear: How to make your own professional-looking athletic wear thelaststitch.com/sewingactivewear

Topics covered in this livechat

Picking the best fabrics for activewear
-Stretch
- Weight matters
- Thickness
- Compression
- Amount of spandex
How to know it's wicking?

Stretchy lycras
Supplex
Meryl
Spoonflower

Fleece
- Microfleece
- Grid fleece
- Softshell

Sealing seams to make them water proof

Mesh for activewear
- Sports mesh
- Power net
- Power mesh


Picking the best stitches for activewear

Sewing machine
- Stretch stitches
. Lightning bolt stitch
- Twin needle

Serger
- 3-thread wide and narrow
- 2 and 3 thread flatlock
- 4-thread

Coverstitch
Reverse cover stitching

8 tutorials on how to sew your own activewear
thelaststitch.com/2017/09/sewing-activewear-tutorials
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