The Sewing Place
The Emporia => In the wardrobe => Topic started by: sewmuchmore on February 27, 2021, 17:42:24 PM
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I am so glad that this was not the first one i made as i have had endless problems with it, considering my first one was a dream to make this one nearly went in the bin.
I have unpicked the side seams about 4 times as i just could not get them to stay strait , I kept getting a bulge along the pocket, in the end i lapped the seam slightly and put a few hand stitches in to secure. Plus there was too much fabric across the upper chest and i got gaping armholes so ended up taking in the excess by putting in a dart and making a feature by topstitching. Then it looks as if the topstitching is pulling a tad tight as i have wrinkles along the back seam.
The first one i made was a quite stiff denim but this is a prewashed denim and i think it has probably stretched a little during the making. Oh well, it's not as if it is for anything special.
To top it off i managed to sew through my finger nail.
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Ouch! Good job it was only your nail!
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OOOhhh! You were lucky. That could have been really painful.
I didn't know what a Whittaker was so I did a google search and came up with this!
https://www.whitakerschocolates.com/
Clearly I missed off a t!
I hope you manage to salvage your pinafore.... perhaps some Whitakers chocolates might help?