March  2026
A DISCUSSION OF FUSIBLE INTERFACING

Happy March 2026.   This month includes a return to Daylight Savings Time, Saint Patrick’s Day, and the beginning of Spring.  I am so looking forward to seeing baby ducks waddling along after their mothers and viewing plenty of beautiful birds flitting around the village.  The topic for this tidbit deals with interfacing, the fusible kind of interfacing.  

Years ago, when I was a teenager, I worked for a tailor after school, on school breaks, and during the summer.  I hand stitched in lots of interfacing fabric.  In those days interfacing had to be sewn in carefully so that it provided structure for the garment in which it was to be installed but it had to become invisible to the outside of the garment.  Most of my work was hand stitching interfacing into yokes, collars, cuffs, pants and jacket plackets, and reinforcing lapels where the buttons and buttonholes would go on shirts, blouses, and jackets...