Top stitching can stop you from taking in the sides of a garment.  But there will be times when you have to unpick the top stitching, take in the sides and re top stitch.  If the garment is jeans, don’t despair about getting the cotton color right.  A lot of domestic sewing machines do not like the thick denim cotton.  If your sewing machine will not sew the thick cotton use two cottons to achieve [...]