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    You will need to know the "blind stitch" for the pleats. Diagonal basting or Tailor's stitch for all the basting. And of course the straight line sewing stitch. The back stitch is used to lock down the material and also gives you a finer stitch than the sew stitch. The button hole stitch is used around the hole in the canvas. The catch stitch is used for the hems.

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    Wallace Catanach, Kiltmaker

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    The straight sewing stitch mentioned above is actually called a running stitch.

    The blind stitch that is also mentioned is actually called a fell stitch. If you do a search on blind stitch you'll only find the blind hem stitching method which is a variation on the catch stitch used for hemming and not at all the stitch that ChattanCat is talking about.

    Other than those two clarifications, you should have no trouble finding resources on the internet or youtube for instructions and diagrams.

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