Not obvious progress, but...
Oct. 26th, 2007 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73Note to self: get a pair of pinking shears the next time you do something like this.
After ~ 1 hour, I've got the dratted collar pieces together, and 'finished'. (Not attached to the dress, mind you - that comes next.) The 'finishing' instructions on the pattern were: Sew a seam about 1/8th inch from edge. Finish with 1. pinking 2. overcasting, 3. overlocking, or 4. fold over seam and sew again. I looked up definitions of overcasting and overlocking, and one of them involved having a machine that could sew zigzags - the one I'm using is straight-seam only. Overcasting looked like it could be done by hand. So I spent 40 minutes doing an atrociously bad overcast by hand, on about a quarter of the length I needed. This was obviously a Bad Idea and would take forever to boot, so I tried the fold-over method, which worked fine and was rather faster (20 minutes for the remaining 3/4 of the length).
I don't think I'll be finishing this today, but that's okay. I have the weekend, and both Monday and Tuesday nights. I'll see if I can get the collar attached tonight. But now it is time to go to the grocery!
After ~ 1 hour, I've got the dratted collar pieces together, and 'finished'. (Not attached to the dress, mind you - that comes next.) The 'finishing' instructions on the pattern were: Sew a seam about 1/8th inch from edge. Finish with 1. pinking 2. overcasting, 3. overlocking, or 4. fold over seam and sew again. I looked up definitions of overcasting and overlocking, and one of them involved having a machine that could sew zigzags - the one I'm using is straight-seam only. Overcasting looked like it could be done by hand. So I spent 40 minutes doing an atrociously bad overcast by hand, on about a quarter of the length I needed. This was obviously a Bad Idea and would take forever to boot, so I tried the fold-over method, which worked fine and was rather faster (20 minutes for the remaining 3/4 of the length).
I don't think I'll be finishing this today, but that's okay. I have the weekend, and both Monday and Tuesday nights. I'll see if I can get the collar attached tonight. But now it is time to go to the grocery!
