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How to Sew Overlapping Seams in 4 Easy Steps

Monday, 14 July 2025

If you're looking for a simple way to give your garments a cleaner finish, you've come to the right place.

Overlapping seams are one of the easiest ways to ditch the boring straight stitch and go for something with a bit more style and class.

But here's the thing:

If you make a mistake, even just one of the small details, you could end up with a stitch that puckers, is misaligned, comes undone, or just looks completely homemade.

That's why in this article, we'll go over how to sew overlapping seams in just 4 steps, how to deal with common problems, projects that use overlapping seams, and also answer a few frequently asked questions.

Let's dive in.

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Get the Look: Sew a Barn Jacket using the Chicago pattern

Thursday, 06 July 2017

Living in the Midwest, it isn't unusual to see men and women dressed in what are historically agricultural work clothes. Brands like Carhartt and LL Bean are ubiquitous, their boxy canvas shapes echoing the farms that dot the landscape. Today, bib overalls and fleece-lined barn jackets have walked off the fields and into high fashion. Starting in the mid-1990's, the workwear look started to infiltrate street fashion, and today, proletarian style abandoned the farms and factories to move to New York's 5th Avenue.

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The barn jacket is a classic style whose relaxed lines and comfortable shape have made it a favorite for decades. Our Chicago Jacket has a similar stylistic feel though we have incorporated a number of refined details, including a curved waist seam and diagonal darted seams that continue into the pockets. The minutiae of design elements work together to create a truly sophisticated style.

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Spring Trends: Wide-Leg Cropped Pants

Thursday, 16 March 2017

Recently, while watching the utterly magnificent Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2017 Couture show (which you can see here, and which I highly recommend watching), I realized something – the models were wearing our West End Pants! Well, the Dior version anyway. Later that same day I received an email from Anthropologie and their models were also wearing our West End style. It was official: wide-leg cropped pants are the pant for this spring. Luckily, I have just the pattern to make them.