Pinning the Neck for T-Shirt Designs

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Melina Piroso. Welcome to Expert Village. The next step after threading your machine before you sew, is you have to pin down the neckline. So it's a little tricky because it's a round shape. And you're going to start pinning down all around the neckline. And the more pins you use, the easier it's going to be. And you want to hold it up and just make sure it's even, and of course it's not going to look exactly this way when it's sewn. Okay, we're going to pin the back, and you want to always make sure that you are doing the same width. See, we've got a little bit over a half an inch, just about half an inch, so we're going to keep it at half an inch all the way around. If you were doing something square, you could almost get away with not pinning it. You shouldn't, you really should pin it but you could kind of get away with it but when you're doing something like this that's round and you're using a lightweight, kind of stretchy fabric, you really have to make sure you pin everything down."