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Warm Autumn Color Palette And It’s Color Combinations

November 15, 2018 by Harshitha Leave a Comment

Autumn Color Palette For Warm Skintone:

Are you a warm autumn woman, here is the warm autumn color palette that suits you with beautiful color combinations for you to look wonderful all the time.

Warm Skintone:

With warm skin tones, you are either a warm Spring or a warm Autumn with an overall warm undertone. The hair is either golden blond to brown, or strawberry blond to deep auburn. Your eyes are green, topaz, hazel or light to medium brown.

With the above skin, hair and eyes color, you best suit the mid-range colors in your palette that are neither too intense nor pale, e.g. a medium tomato red (Autumn) or a soft aquamarine (Spring).

Autumn Color Type:

The nature of autumn color type is soft, deep and warm. The category includes a certain type of skin tones, hair colors, and eyes. Autumn color type

Skin Tone:

  1. Warm golden undertone
  2. Low contrast between skin, hair, and eyes

Hair Color:

  1. Mid brown to black
  2. Medium to deep red
  3. Golden or red undertones

Eyes:

  1. Hazel
  2. Medium to black brown
  3. Olive
  4. Warm green

Warm Autumn Color Palette:

Warm Autumn Color Palette

Color Combinations:

A few color combinations with lime green, hunter green…

Lime Green:

Here are a few lime green color combinations for warm skin tone.

Hunter Green:

Pickle Green:

A palazzo pants outfit in pickle green.

palazzo pants outfit  palazzo pants outfit

Shamrock Green and Tiger Orange:

A Long jacket style kurta in a shamrock green and tiger orange combination.

Long Jacket Style Kurta

 

 

 

 

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Types Of Needles(Sewing Machine Needle Sizes, Colors)

November 2, 2018 by Harshitha Leave a Comment

Types Of Needles For Sewing Machine:

For beginners, how to identify sewing machine needles is a common question. There are various types of needles for various purposes, but the parts of a sewing machine needle differ in their construction. This post is an overview and check out more elaborated sewing needles codes definitions etc on types of needles for sewing machines.

Many people know that there are different types of thread depending on your project, but did you also know there are different sizes and types of needles. Different Types of Needles for Different Fabric. Regular Point Needle (Sharp): Universal Point Needle: Ball Point Needle: Embroidery Needles: Quilting Needles: Topstitching Needle: Wedge point Needle etc… Whether sewing by hand or machine, you will find that there are sewing needles for every task.

Here’s the anatomy of sewing machine needle to identify it better.parts of needle

    • Shank: The shank is the head of the needle that sits into your sewing machine socket. Set the flat side to the back.
    • Blade: The blade determines the needle size. We’ll look into needle sizes further in this post.
    • Shaft: The shaft is the body of the needle which has an eye at the end to run the thread through.
  • The point varies according to the type of the needle based on usage. 

Types of needles:

There are different types of needles for different types of materials. The needles differ in shape at the tip. Types of needles, how they work, what they are used for etc… You should select the types of needles based on the type of textile (i.e. knit vs. woven)

Selecting the correct needle for your project is just as important as selecting the fabric, thread, and stabilizer. The different sizes and types of needles are as follows.

Universal:

The point is slightly rounded. Very good for woven fabrics like cotton. It is sharp for knits and good for woven fabrics. 

Types Of Needles universal

Ballpoint:

This needle is good for knits. It is rounded point slightly such that the needle passes between the fabric threads rather than pierce them. Also suitable for heavy knits and spandex.

Types Of Needles ballpoint

Quilting:

It has a tapered point designed for thick layers and intersecting seams. This is the best choice for perfect machine quilting. Quilting Needles can also be used for piecing.

Types Of Needles

Sharp:

This needle has a sharp point and narrow shaft for piercing wovens. Suitable for finely woven fabric like chintz, silk, lightweight faux suede, and microfiber. Also great for heirloom sewing or any other type of topstitching.

Types Of Needles sharp

Leather:

The leather needles have a wedge-shaped point which is ideal for sewing leather, suede, vinyl, heavy faux suede, and thick non-woven fabric. This needle leaves permanent holes. Avoid backstitch so that the fabric doesn’t get perforated. Instead, tie the thread ends. Not for use with knits.

Types Of Needles - leather

Denim:

Denim Needles have a sharp point and strong shaft. These needles can stitch through many layers without breaking. Use on heavy, tightly woven fabric, like denim, canvas, and duck.

Types Of Needles denim

Topstitching:

It has an extra large eye, large groove, and sharp point for heavy decorative threads, embroidery thread, or 2even two strands of all-purpose thread.

Stretch:

These needles are for lightweight knits such as Silk Jersey, Lycra, or anything with high elasticity. For these fabrics a ballpoint needle may skip stitches, so switch to stretch needle.

Types Of Needles - stretch

Serger:

These are specifically designed for Overlock machines. It has sharp point and used on all fabrics.

Embroidery:

These are needles for machine embroidery, when sewn with Rayon, Acrylic, or speciality threads.

Metallic:

It has an extra large eye, large groove scarf, and sharp point which goes well with monofilament and metallic thread. This needle must be used when sewing metallic thread.

Wing:

It has flared ‘wings’ on each side of the shaft. Used for heirloom and decorative stitches on Batiste and linen.

Twin:

It has a single shaft connecting two needles. This needle is used when the sewer wants perfectly parallel stitches. Usually seen on jeans and decorative stitching.

Triple:

This needle only comes as a universal needle. Just like the Twin needle, the Triple needle has a single shaft connecting three needles. The machine must be Triple needle capable.

Spring:

This needle is most commonly used for free motion sewing, embroidery, and monogramming. the wire coiled shaft acts as a presser foot to depress and release the fabric. Only available in universal, stretch, and quilting.

Sewing Machine Needle Sizes:

After you’ve identified the sewing machine needle, what puzzles you are, are sewing machine needles universal. Well, No! there are different sizes and colours for different materials to sew.

What size sewing machine needle for cotton/ satin is a question after you’ve ruined your lightweight satin by stitching it with a wrong sewing needle. For example, a size 75 needle has a blade that is .75 mm in diameter.

Here’s a table with the fabric types with suitable needle types and sizes. The fabric types include cotton, linen, silk, wool, synthetic, rayon, blends and listed in the order of weight.

Fabric Type Machine Needle Type Machine Needle Size
Sheer to lightweight: Batiste, Chiffon, Georgette, Organza, Voile and all microfiber or micro denier fabrics. Regular Point 9/70 or 11/80
Lightweight: Challis, Chambray, Charmeuse, Crepe de Chine, Gauze, Handkerchief Linen, Silk, Taffeta, Tissue Faille. Regular Point 11/80
Medium-weight: Broadcloth, Brocade, Chino, Chintz, Corduroy, Flannel, Linen, Poplin, Satin, Synthetic Suedes, Taffeta, Terry, Velvet Regular Point 14/90
Medium to Heavy-weight: Coating, Damask, Drapery Fabric, Fake Fur, Gabardine, Ticking, Woolens Regular Point 16/100 or 18/110
Denim and Canvas Denim/Jeans 16/100
Sheer to Lightweight Knits: Jersey, Single Knit, Spandex, Tricot Ball Point 10/70 or 12/80
Medium to Heavy-weight Knits: Double Knit, Sweatshirt, Sweater Knit Ball Point 14/90
Speciality Fabrics: Leather, Suede, Buckskin Wedge Point 14/90 or 16/100

90/14 – Mid-heavy fabrics, like Corduroy, raw Silks, bottom weight fabric.

100/16 – Heavy fabrics, like Denim and Duck Cloth.

110/18 –  For Very Heavy Fabric, like Canvas or tapestry.

120/19 – Heaviest Fabrics, like luggage handles and boat canvas.

Sewing Machine Needles Color Codes:

And what do the colors on sewing machine needles mean? Here’s a picture with details of sewing machine needles color codes.

types of needles- color codes

Singer Number And Color Codes

Singer colors and numbers its needles with the following system of codes to indicate the needlepoint type and shaft size:

Code And Shank Color Needle Point Type
2000 – uncolored a chromium-coated regular point, for high-speed embroidery stitching
2020 – red a regular point, for woven fabrics (most common Singer needle type)
2022, 2053, 2054 – uncolored overlock needles, only for overlocking machines
2044 – uncolored embroidery needle
2045 – yellow ballpoint, for knits
2026 – blue a heavy-duty point, for denims
2032 – brown chisel or wedge point, for leathers
2025 – uncolored twin needles
2040 – uncolored hemstitch or wing-needle, for “heirloom” or decorative sewing, best on woven cottons and linens
Shoulder color Shaft size
green 9
orange 11
blue 14
purple 16
gray 18

Kenmore color codes

Kenmore colors its needles with a different system of color codes which indicate the needle’s size:

Shank color Shaft size Shaft size (Europe)
blue 11 75
orange 12 80
red 14 90
purple 16 100
green 18 110

Schmetz color codes

The colored band on some types of Schmetz needles indicates the needle type.[2]

Shank color Type
yellow Stretch
blue Jeans
green Quilting
red Embroidery
purple Microtex (sharp)

The types of needles are varied in the shape of the point for different materials and the shaft that fits into the required type of sewing machine.

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10 Most Used Types of Silk Fabrics

September 25, 2018 by Harshitha Leave a Comment

Types Of Silk With Pictures:

Knowing all the types of fabrics and their uses is a help, but there are only a few materials that are frequently used. Having a good grasp of the frequently used fabrics and their properties will add much more to the garment.  Here are the different types of silk fabrics for better use in the garments making.

Why Silk?

Silk is a soft, lustrous fabric adding beauty to the garment. There are numerous benefits compared to any other man-made replicas of silk.

Silk Properties

  • Silk is the most hypoallergenic of all fabrics because of its natural protein structure.
  • An all-climate fabric.
  • Silk is highly absorbent and dries quickly.
  • Silk is robust, in spite of its delicate appearance and its smooth surface resists soil and odours well.
  • It is the strongest natural fibre and can easily compete with steel yarn in tensile strength.
  • Silk takes colour well, washes easily, and is easy to work within spinning, weaving, knitting, and sewing
  • It blends well with other animal and vegetable fibres

So, it is important to know the types of silk fabrics and we’re going to look into it.

Types Of Silk fabrics With Pictures:

Here are the types of silk fabrics with names and pictures. These are the most used types of silk fabric for clothing.

Crepe Silk back satin:

It is a satin weave silk with a crepe back with the warp threads cross over three or more of the backing threads. This is a reversible fabric.

Types of Silk Fabrics- Silk Satin Crepe Back

Properties:

  • Medium weight
  • Natural elasticity
  • Soft draping
  • Clinging quality
  • Shiny front satin weave and dull back crepe weave
  • Luxurious silky flowy
  • Biased cut stretch

Uses:

  • Formal Wear
  • Formal dressmaking projects such as bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses, prom dresses, evening gowns
  • Home furnishings such as table runners, bed drapes
  • Venue Dressing

Charmeuse:

This is also a satin weave like crepe back satin except that it is lightweight. Charmeuse is irreversible, unlike crepe back satin. It has the warp threads cross over four or more of the backing (weft) threads.

Types of Silk Fabrics- Silk Charmeuse

Properties:

  • Lightweight
  • Very Soft
  • Lustrous Sheen
  • Shiny front and dull backside
  • Bias cut liquidy effect

Uses:

  • Blouses
  • Evening gowns
  • Dresses
  • Loungewear, lingerie
  • High-quality linings

Silk Organza:

Silk Organza is a sheer, thin open-weave fabric. It is similar to cotton organdy except it is made with silk and is transparent. Organza has a crisp drape, which requires special sewing techniques for seams, facings, and hems because they will be visible from the outside of the garment.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Silk Organza

Properties:

  • Heavier and crisper than silk gauze
  • Smooth flat finish
  • Transparent
  • Strong
  • Durable
  • Crisp drape
  • Luxurious
  • Stiff with tightly twisted yarn

Uses:

  • Drape ball gowns
  • Cocktail dresses
  • Interfacing, veils, and undergowns
  • Base fabric for embellished fabrics

Sheer Chiffon(“rag” in French):

A very light, diaphanous fabric, Chiffon is made with a loose, plain weave and tightly twisted single crêpe yarns in both warp and weft. Chiffon is softer and thinner than Georgette.  Because of its slippery quality, chiffon is difficult to cut and sew.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Sheer Chiffon

Properties:

  • Very light and thin
  • Limp drape
  • Soft and supple
  • Sheer
  • Slightly rough
  • Very delicate
  • Gives floaty effect
  • Silkier

Uses:

  • Special occasion dresses
  • Scarves
  • Nightgowns
  • Linings

Silk georgette:

A plain weave crepe fabric with two highly twisted S and two highly twisted Z yarns alternately in both warp and weft. It is similar to silk crepe but is not as soft or lustrous as the crepe. Chiffon and Georgette are the daily used among all the types of silk fabrics.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Silk Georgette

Properties:

  • Heavier than chiffon
  • Strong
  • Grainy texture
  • Durable but Snags easily
  • Lightweight and thin
  • Falls into soft ripples
  • Drapes very fluidly
  • Relatively difficult to sew
  • Doesn’t show pin marks, and doesn’t hold a crease

Uses:

  • Blouses
  • Bias-cut flared skirts
  • Evening wear
  • Dresses
  • Scarves

Duchess satin:

It is a soft silk with fine cross ribs and looks like Charmeuse. Also called polyvoltine.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Duchess Satin

Properties:

  • Very heavy
  • Stiff satin
  • Expensive
  • Medium weight fabric with satin finish
  • Sews easily but pins and needles leave marks

Uses:

  • Elegant mermaid wedding gowns
  • Evening wear
  • Bridal gowns
  • Elegant dresses

Zibeline:

This is 100% silk with a twill weave. Good for structured garments. It has a long nap which is usually made from wool and is sometimes combined with Angora or Alpaca fibres.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Silk Zibeline

Properties:

  • Thick and soft
  • Sturdy silk
  • Heavyweight
  • Warm
  • Lustrous
  • Holds shape

Uses:

  • Skirts
  • Dresses
  • Wedding dresses
  • Coats, jackets, suits

contour fabrication. Pleated draping

Takara(Treasure silk):

The silkworms fed on mulberry-leaves become silkworm cocoons, then become silk yarn threads and fabric after delicately spun and weaved.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Takara silk

Properties:

  • Noise
  • Crisp fabric

Uses:

  • Cocktail evening gowns

Habutai:

Habutai is a plain weave of silk, originally handwoven of single warp yarns and filling yarns of hand-reeled silk, which made it slightly irregular. This silk is the “hand” or touches that many people identify as silk.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Habutai silk

Properties:

  • Lightweight satin
  • Graceful drape
  • Slightly transparent
  • Lesser wrinkles
  • Lustrous
  • Natural in colour, sheer and ivory
  • Relatively easy to sew and doesn’t show pins marks

Uses:

  • Lingerie
  • Dresses
  • Blouses
  • Light jackets

Silk jerseys:

Silk Jersey is a knit two-way stretch fabric. The edges of the fabric are finished with an overlock stitch to prevent fraying. Tucks and cowls are great in this fabric as it casts dark shadows that dramatically offset the lustrous nature of the silk jersey.

Types of Silk Fabrics - Silk Jerseys

Properties:

  • Silky soft
  • Luxe drape
  • High lustre
  • Stretch
  • Twists, two-way stretch
  • Expensive

Uses:

  • Evening wear
  • Goddess gowns
  • Dresses
  • Skirts
  • Tops
  • Scarves
  • Swim cover-ups
  • Pyjamas

You can check this video for more information.

These are the 10 most used types of silk fabrics each used for specific purposes, giving the garments its look.

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