I've spent most of the day working on a cover for Caroline my
201 Just three pieces based on the awkward to use bentwood case she came with.
Yesterday I received the bits and bobs for the bag I plan to make for the Japanese Sewalong and this included
Vilene Decovil and
Vilene Style-Vil.
Decovil is a very stiff iron-on interfacing similar weight to pelmet buckram.
Style-Vil is a layer of foam rubber (about 1/4 inch thick) sandwiched between scrim, similar but thicker than the foam used for bra cups.
I used the cranes fabric I'd been pondering about over in the Japanese Sewalong thread. Interfaced all three pieces with medium weight interfacing and then added the Decovil to the two end pieces. Lovely and stiff. That used up all the spare Decovil. For the main piece there was just enough Style-Vil, only mms left over, but it's not iron on so a bit of quilting, a few straight lines should do it....Oh no!
I tried several times with Caroline to run a straight line down the middle to start. It was all basted very firmly and I reduced the foot pressure but no matter what, the bottom layer moved through much faster than the top layer. So I tried with Vera
and the walking foot. Exactly the same
I think it must be something to do with the squashiness of the foam.
Note to self - don't use that stuff again for anything which is to be quilted.
Last resort - hand quilt it
It's only got the minimum amount of of big-stitch quilting to hold the layers together but it wasn't easy and I've got sore fingers
I've now got the three pieces joined together - WS to WS - so all that's left to do is cut some binding and stitch it over the seams and the bottom edge.