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Tricky Sewing Words

January 22, 2015 By Susan 9 Comments

As part of a series for The Daily Seam, we’re helping spread the word! Er… words. TRICKY SEWING WORDS! Have you also found yourself in the position of needing to say a sewing word and wondering whether you’ve nailed it– or maybe you sound completely ridiculous? You know how to spell it, and what it means when you see it, but SAY it? Nope. This is the third part in a series meant to help you learn how to say it and feel a bit of community with other blog-reading sewists, because there are a LOT of words that are hard to figure out how to pronounce! Not only are there self-taught sewists, many are reading blogs INTERNATIONALLY! When English isn’t your first language even the word “sew” is tricky! So let’s get to it!

Sequins

video credit: Delia Creates

Sew

video credit: Susan! That’s me! Who knew “sew” is a hard word when English is not your first language?

Shirr

video credit: Adrianna!

Toile

video credit: Sew Like My Mom

Tulle

video credit: Andrea’s Notebook

Voile

video credit: Welcome to the Mouse House

So, we’ve reached the end of the official list of sewing terms, but I reached out to someone very important in sewing world to add two more clips. Both of which I myself pronounced so very wrongly for several years and fell out of my chair the first time I heard each one pronounced correctly. So I had to enlist her help!

Anna Maria Horner

video credit: Anna Maria Horner

Janome

video credit: Anna Maria Horner

If you want to start at the beginning (and you really SHOULDN’T MISS the intro video for this series!) click HERE.

To see more “right way” posts, click the words you’d like to see!

appliquè armscye batiste chambray crepe de chine grosgrain jacquard

lamè muslin ombré panne ponte ruching selvage

And I’m DYING to hear – what did you learn here? Or did you hear a word you used to pronounce differently?!?!

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Comments

  1. straightgrainAn says

    January 22, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    Totally awesome!! I love seeing all these videos :-)

    Reply
  2. Laura Johnson says

    January 22, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    Janome!? Wha!!?? No way! I’ve been wrong about shirring forever too…. Bummer.

    Reply
  3. sarah o says

    January 22, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    i just learned so much! thanks!

    Reply
  4. Jen L. says

    January 22, 2015 at 6:22 pm

    You rock! That rocks. Totally fun!

    Reply
  5. marissa | rae gun ramblings says

    January 22, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    these are so fun

    Reply
  6. Annika says

    January 23, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    I had so much fun with these videos! And as a german I can totally relate to the fact the the pronounciation of “sew” and “sewing” is more than weird. I had got to know the right one already some time ago, but for quite some time I said it totally wrong in my mind…

    Reply
  7. beeshebags says

    January 25, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    Awesome series….only two I had been pronouncing wrong….Anna instead of Ahna and Panne – pan instead of how I’ve been saying it pann-eh! Another one you perhaps could’ve included is bargello….as I’d been saying it wrong for years!

    Hugs
    Naomi

    Reply

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