They say cut the front pieces out to size once you have pieced the fabric, then cut wadding and lining out 1 inch bigger, and then quilt it. :thinking: Well in my limited experience does that not mean the front once quilted and of course trimmed will end up smaller than you want???
The sleeves are pieced but not quilted and the back is not even pieced. Also just for your interest there are no mitred corners on the binding :thinking: :thinking:
I have just skim-rewatched the relevent bits of the TV program.
The diagram at the beginning showed fronts sandwiched and quilted, sleeves sandwiched but but quilted then those parts were added to the back - no info about how the back was made but they all looked as though there was wadding, so lined as well. The wadding was cut an inch bigger all round and then trimmed once the quilting was done, but they didn't show how the sleeves were dealt with.
Some of the binding was awful - not just that it wasn't mitred but ugly and wobbly top stitching across the front of the binding
There are three ways to bind and all have their downsides:
Attach binding to right side, fold over and hand stitch to the machine stitching - time consuming.
Attach binding to right side, fold over so that it overlaps the stitching line then stitch in the ditch from the right side - needs to be accurate or it will move and won't be properly attached inside!
Use a binding attachment and attach in one pass with top stitching close to the edge of the binding - takes practice if you are not used to it.
A TSP sewalong competition sounds good. You just need to find a pattern that doesn't have darts, all the shaping needs to be in the seams. Also decide whether it will be 'unlined' (as the GSGB jackets were, what they called 'lining' was what darksiders call backing) or would you make a separate lining in addition to the backing - that would remove the need to do any binding!
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