No longer so blue.
Torin has decided that he wants to be red instead of blue. Good thing I anticipated this last-minute change, and bought a bit of extra cloth for his dad's costume. Since the muslin practice run went so well, I cut out all the fancy cloth... there is no going back!
The Stiffening.
The red cloth is pretty thick, while the black cloth is noticeably slippery and flimsy in comparison. After a bit of experimenting, I decided to only put interfacing on the black cloth, so that the 2 colors have a similar stiffness and feel to them.
It really did not use up much interfacing at all!
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| Black interfacing on black cloth. |
Now that the interfacing has been ironed on... WE ARE READY TO SEW!!
One small snag, though.
My sewing machine decided to malfunction right as I started to test out sewing with the stretchy cloth. I spent several hours yesterday cleaning and resetting everything, researching, and coming to the conclusion that I likely need to replace the tension wheel for the top thread. The thread keeps getting stuck at that part (even at zero tension) and skipping stitches and then breaking.
Part of my old job was to deep-clean, re-align, and repair a variety of microscopes. It's so frustrating to not be able to do the same for just a "simple" sewing machine.
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