How To Sew A French Seam

In this video, Isaac shows you how to sew a French seam on your home sewing machine.

We use X-Pac V21 Ripstop for this tutorial. An all around fantastic fabric known for its waterproofness, strength, and great look.

Find that fabric here available in Print On-Demand:

We were inspired to make this video by comments from a previous video

HyperD Dry Bag Experiment

[KevanArt]

A few thoughts... 1. I'm not sure what you mean by a Hybrid French seam. This is a French seam. 2. I would remind sewists to only melt a poly thread. Make sure they aren't burning a cotton thread or something they aren't sure of the content. 3. the best way to get a crisp edge after the first seam and before the second seam- is to open the fabric flat on the table and use the back of your thumbnail to crease the seam allowance to one side, then fold the fabric right sides together. 4. since the finished seam depth is determined by the distance from the fabric cut edge to the needle, you can change needle position, but if you don't say where you are placing the cut edge of the fabric then there isn't enough information for the sewist. It would be clearer to stipulate to place the cut fabric edge along the right edge under the presser foot, for both seams, that way when the needle position is far right the first seam will be a small bite and when the needle is returned to center, the seam will be a larger one and sure to enclose the first seam. Nothing is more frustrating than ripping the second seam because the seam allowance is peeking out. Keep sewing people!

[mikekraut]

This is a good video on how to do this with two separate pieces of fabric that you can easily manipulate, but how do you do such a stitch on a dry bag that is constructed from a single piece of fabric such as the dry bags you mentioned?

[tekknorat]

Don't forget to stitch the first seam slightly narrower than the second stitch, so tat the raw edge wouldn't stick out of the final seam. I.e. make first stitch 5 millimeters, and second 7 millimeters.

[backpacker]

Pretty similar to a flat-fell seam reversed so the allowance is on the wrong side. Nice. Thanks.

[KenGray]

Nice.... More close-ups though.... I'm a greenhorn.

[frostedchocopups]

The demonstration is helpful, but ramping up that music between the verbal comments is pretty annoying. :(

[MG-vlmz]

What do you set the tension on for x-pac v21? and what thread were you using?