Hand basting is most commonly used in tailoring as a way to keep collars, facings, lapels and hems flat during the construction process. This ensures that the final garment fits and aligns properly at every edge and seam. Uneven hand basting in apparel construction is used temporarily as a fast and easy technique to hold various layers together keeping them flat and aligned for final stitching. Our policy on hand basting is that you should use it whenever you feel like you need extra stability that pins alone can't achieve. Basting, whether on the machine or by hand, allows you to keep the zipper in place before adding the final stitches. If you're a sewing beginner, you'll find that sewing a zipper with the use of pins alone proves to be very tricky.
Another use for machine basting is aligning zippers before sewing them permanently. Same goes for sewing in a sleeve which requires a pair of basting stitches along the cap's seam allowance in order to give it a 3 dimensional, round shape. In order to achieve gathers, you must use a basting stitch to bundle the fabric together evenly- this is properly achieved by using a basting stitch on the sewing machine which will ensure that the gathers are spread evenly and hold their shape during the sewing process. Such finishes include: gathers, set-in sleeves, quilting and hemming. Using a machine for basting is more common for instances when the stitch isn't necessarily removed afterwards. Basting on the sewing machine simply requires that you stitch at the highest setting available for the longest stitch.
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