To prove what a novice I am at clothes sewing, when I wanted
to try doing some twin needle pintucks on the neck of my new white sweatshirt
jacket this morning, I had no idea how to do that, even though I've often read
about twin needle stitching in the past, proof that I need to DO rather than
just read about things I've not tried before.
I had to do quite a bit of experimenting before I
could figure out how to thread the machine and adjust the
tension before I could start sewing those pintucks, but am fairly happy with the
way it turned out, however am now debating about whether I should add even more
pintucks since the collar is still kind of wide and doesn't stand up quite as
much as I'd like.
I also did some experimenting with how I was going to finish
the edge of this jacket, even though I'm still not entirely sure I want to do
anything since that might make it much less drapey, but it does look kind of unfinished as it is.I definitely can't just
do the blanket stitch around the outside as I had planned, though, since this fabric is
so flimsy that the edges don't lie flat at all when I use that stitch on the
outside edge. Know I could put some kind of washaway stabilizer under it, but don't think the stitching would show enough to make that worth doing.
Think I'm going to see if I have some off white yarn that I
can couch along the edge as I did with one of my old polar fleece jackets, but I
need to use thin yarn so it's not as obvious as the thick fuzzy stuff I used on
my other jacket. I hope I have something like that in my stash since I hate to
have to go out and buy things when I already own so much, but I usually can
"shop" in my own house rather than in a store thanks to my huge stash of sewing
related items, including the twin needles that I bought ages ago but I never
even opened until today.
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