Sunday, October 21, 2018

Skanty Progress

The sewing machine is hobbling along, and will work with only the regular straight stitch and a slow speed, after I ran some waxed floss through where the upper thread goes on the machine.  Looks like I need to replace the tension disc, but I can't send it in for repair before costumes are needed. 



In any case, some progress has been made!

Halfway sewn.



The skant isn't finished by any means... it still needs a zipper, sleeves, collar, hemming.  Originally I ruined the top 3 pieces due to how stretchy the black cloth is, but I re-cut them and added interfacing to the black, and they were much easier to deal with.

Since my pattern is far more simple than the men's jacket, I'm using it to do the learning of new techniques, and to make sure the sewing machine is going to be reliable now that I've found a "fix" for it.  So much of this is new to me:  sewing with stretchy knits, invisible zippers, stay-stitching, stitch-in-the-ditch, collars, trims, linings. 



It's motivating to see some real progress finally. 

Only 8 days left to finish our costumes... and those are already going to be busy days.  Wish me luck.

If I end up finishing the sewing early, I'm totally doing head-to-toe Trill spots with a brown permanent marker.  Even though I will have to explain them to the doctor the day before Halloween, bwahahaha! 



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