Help With Sweatshirt Seam

Hello! I hope I'm posting this in the right place. I've been sewing for about a year or so and have been making mostly dresses for myself. I have a 100% cotton heavy sweatshirt fabric that I'm making a dress out of. Because of the stretch, I'm using a zigzag stitch. However, no matter how narrow I make the stitch, it always shows on the right side of the fabric on the seam. I tried a straight stitch and it did the same thing. Any tips for resolving this? I've attached a few pictures with a narrow stitch to show the behavior. Thank you so much!

· 1 year ago

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SaffronFix9 · 1 year ago

Shoot, I'm not able to attach the images.

· 1 year ago

SaffronFix9 · 1 year ago

Haha, I was able to save one of the images as my profile picture so you can see there :)

· 1 year ago

SewHayleyJane · 1 year ago Admin

Hi, oh that's a pain! It looks like an issue with your sewing machine, is it doing this on other fabrics?

· 1 year ago

SaffronFix9 · 1 year ago

I haven't tried recently on other fabrics but I'll give it a shot! I ended up doing the zigzag and then top stitching and that seemed to help. I also changed the needle from 90 to 100. Thank you for the reply!

· 1 year ago