(no subject)
Aug. 2nd, 2006 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
titusnowlThe timing on the sewing machine is off, so that the needle strikes at the wrong time and snaps itself off. Don't have a sewing machine repair center within an easy driving distance, and don't have the ~$70 it would take to get it fixed (at least not right now, being paid biweekly and rent due tomorrow), so the entire vest is being hand-sewn.
Now bits of it would have had to have been (I'm afraid there were too many avoirs just there, sorry) hand-sewn anyway, viz. the darts in the front, but I'm going to have to do all the hems and seams by hand as well, and I'm woefully out of practice.
I'm doing the left front portion of the fashion fabric right now, working on the dart. It's slow going due to my being out of practice, the heft of the fabric (and my lack of thimble to push the needle through quicker), the fact that the Coats & Clark Oxford Grey thread is the exact same color as the fabric so I have a hard time telling my stitches from the twill weave, and the fact that since this entire portion of the stitchery is going to be completely visible I'm working it in teensy tiny little backstitches (three threads to the stitch), so it's painstaking going. Luckily I have Casanova on to distract me.
Now bits of it would have had to have been (I'm afraid there were too many avoirs just there, sorry) hand-sewn anyway, viz. the darts in the front, but I'm going to have to do all the hems and seams by hand as well, and I'm woefully out of practice.
I'm doing the left front portion of the fashion fabric right now, working on the dart. It's slow going due to my being out of practice, the heft of the fabric (and my lack of thimble to push the needle through quicker), the fact that the Coats & Clark Oxford Grey thread is the exact same color as the fabric so I have a hard time telling my stitches from the twill weave, and the fact that since this entire portion of the stitchery is going to be completely visible I'm working it in teensy tiny little backstitches (three threads to the stitch), so it's painstaking going. Luckily I have Casanova on to distract me.
