hi everybody today i'm going to show you how to do an overhand stitch a whip stitch and a slip stitch i'll explain to you what you'll use them for as we go through and see how they're done all right so what we're going to do first is an overhand stitch what i have here is just two scrap pieces of fabric and they both are were ironed and folded down both of them so i'm going to put them right sides together which would be the side without the fold just match up these folded edges and we're gonna go from this side and we're gonna go diagonally through all the pieces of fabric staying as close to the edge as possible then we're going to come back through start we're just gonna make one stitch across and you're gonna stitch diagonally again so all of your stitches will be straight over the top of the fabric just like that so straight across you're going to go in straight across from the thread that is coming out and your diagonal these stitches are usually fairly close together and what this is used for is if you're putting lace or ribbon on the edge of something you would use this kind of stitch to attach that you don't see very much thread so it gives you a nice clean finish on those edges and keep going until the end of your scene and again as with most stitches you want to keep them as uniform as possible with how much space you're leaving in between the stitches still too bright and the size of your stitch is going across see openness you have little tiny stitches you can see them there and your thread would normally be the same color as what you're working on so they'd be harder to see and then if you were to tie this off the way i would say to tie it off someone people are always going to have different answers for you how i would tie mine off is i would come through for one more stitch here and as i'm doing that i'm going to take that loop and put my needle through to leave a knot there and i would go through one more time or just catch that stitch catch that knot there and pull and then do the same thing and go through your loop have a second knot and then i'd go take this thread through just this first fold of fabric see how i undid it there i would take it a couple stitches just through there or a couple threads over just to stitch through and then snip so your thread will be hidden back here when you open it you won't see your thread and that is how you do an overhand stitch now it's so bright yesterday i thought it was a little bit dark now it's kind of bright there you go see those little stitches and then for your whip stitch it's pretty similar to your overhand stitch so i have the same sort of fabric with just that fold your whips that you would use to join a couple finished edges or possibly attach an unfinished edge to a to a straight edge or a flat surface so go ahead and get your knot on the bottom of your head thread and all the stitches we're doing today are just with one single thread rather than double thread so with a whip stitch go through again same thing very close to the top very close pull through and this one just instead of bringing your stitch in diagonally like we were for the overhead stitch you just bring your stitch in straight across and now your stitches will be diagonal as close as possible to that edge and keep going of course until your seam is finished i'm just going to get a little further here so i can show you how to tie it off and i'll also be able to open it to show the other side and this would be the same thing with the overhand stitch where if you were doing this on an actual piece your thread would match so it wouldn't stand out like this orange thread does against this white fabric all right i think that's far enough to show you so this i would knot off pretty much the same way i just did the overhand knot where i would just make one more stitch i just go straight across and i'm going to go through here and pick up that last stitch or not and then one more time so i can get two oops i just realized that one of these was not on the right side but since it was just to show you guys here we go so sometimes your whip stitches a lot of the times your whip stitches end up where your fabric will be butting up right up against each other so if i pull real hard you can see the little holes there of where the fabric touches it looks just like that your little stitches like i said they would match so you wouldn't have this awkward stuff sticking out and then i would go back into this fold whichever fold to once again hide your tail of thread just whatever the wrong side is that's where you want your tail to be and that is your whip stitch next we are going to do a slip stitch so with this one i ironed out a piece of fabric and then i turned it down twice i'll show you that in a second after i knot my thread here okay so i turned down this little piece and ironed it or pressed it and then i turned down one more that's bigger this um i use a lot in my sewing this is how i do hand binding if i do that myself by hand usually i do it on machine but if i when i do it by hand i love slip stitch for this you could also use it to either join folded edges together similar to what we were doing just now or you can do it like this where it's one folded edge to a flat surface so what you do with this one is you're going to go in this fold right here and pull your thread through oops apparently my knot didn't want to stay not even more one more time so it doesn't pop back out okay so go ahead and that fold and pull through and then fold your fabric back over so then what you do here is you take one very small stitch just right on the other side of your fold come back up just a few threads over very small stitch and then you are going to go into your fold that same area where your thread is coming out into your fold just those few threads over and through your fold oops i'm not through my fold there go through your fold so your needle is going through this fold here so you can't see it you can't see your needle and then you pull now i pulled my fabric apart so you pull pull pull pull okay and as it gets tacked down you can't see much thread on this side still too bright maybe i'll just shut this off light off that's a little bit better okay and then we're gonna go down again and over those few stitches and through your fold this is a lot easier if you have a full piece because it'll be but it'll be thicker than what i'm working with here turning this light off did not help don't mind all the sniffles it's been really cold in south dakota and i think i might be getting sick again which is not fun and over your few stitches and then two years old i'll do a couple more and then i'll show you how to tie off and show you the other set what the other side of the fabric looks like let's pull my needle out yeah last stitch okay so what i do here is i take this stitch backward a little bit and come up through and just pull that together and i would make my knot here pull through and then you're going to want to go through your loop then to hide my thread i go back up into this fold as close as possible to where your knot is and i just go up always pull my thread until it's tight and then i snip my thread as close to the fabric as possible without cutting the fabric and then your thread is hidden inside of the fold and on this side you have little tiny stitches which again you your fabric would be the same color as your thread so they'd be more difficult to notice something my wool coat uses this stitch on the hem difficult to see but um if you look real close you can see it there i was going to grab it but it's a little further away than i thought it was so here we go here was your overhand stitch with this one we went diagonal with your needle diagonal so all of your stitches were done straight across and that was your overhand stitch and then with your whip stitch we did this one with your needle going in straight rather than diagonal so in this one all your stitches are diagonal and there they are and then your slip stitch which we just did where you can barely see them on this side and even less so on this side which would be the inside of your garment or this would be the inside of your garment or it would be the um top of your quilt where your binding is which is what i sometimes use this for are pretty much the only thing i use it for i guess i don't slip stitch very often because i don't make as much clothes as i'd like to i hope you enjoyed your how to's for today i was planning on showing you a little bit of beating tonight but i'm not sure i'm gonna have the time so we'll do that one next and i'm going to put a post up about what you will need for star quilts what materials you need and we'll start that one either this weekend or in the next couple days which will be about the weekend so just shoot for the weekend for star quotes if you want to sew along with me for the star quilts you can go ahead and get your fabric and materials whatever that i'm going to put up for you that you're going to need and we'll start them this weekend i'm excited hope you are too stay positive and i'll see you all later