Facing vs bias-bound armholes and necklines
Hey there, I am a fairly new sewer and wanted to get some advice on how you determine whether to bias-bind or use facings for necklines and armholes.
Every time I do a facing, and I don't know if it's the interfacing I am using, although I am using exactly the ones recommended in the pattern, or if it's my technique, but they always look and act so stiff. And even with understitching they will flip out completely (for a neckline facing) or peek out (for an armhole facing).
To get around this I tried to fully line a bodice by using the pattern pieces and the burrito method. That worked fairly well for that project, but there are other Summery projects that would not work for.
I was thinking of going to the fabric shop and either buying a bunch of different cloured pre-made bias binding so I can have cheeky contrast colour in the bound edges if they do flip it will look intentional? Or to get a bias binding making tool thingy to make bias tape out of the fashion fabric.
Does anyone have any tips on how I could know when reading/looking at a pattern if I could change it to fully lined or to bias bind, when it tells me to do facings?