Sewing hodgepodge
So in a fit of sheer ridiculousness, during the last month I have acquired TWO new sewing machines. Bringing the total number that live in our house up to five. And they are all named after robots.
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Scone's gonna do Teddy (in green form) and I'll be doing Billy's Wiccan outfit. Clearly not for photo-ops of Teh Gay. Obviously.
Ooh I'm sure there'll be enough leftover leather scrap to send your way. The belts might be trickier; we actually haven't yet bought anything to make the straps out of yet, because all of the belt blanks were WAY too thick. I can't imagine that there wouldn't be some other sort of tanned, dyeable strap that someone sells, so we're still looking around. Whatever we use, I bet you could use for your thick harness too. Or maybe you could even just get a belt blank since it's a lot bigger than a mask strap.
Nah, never used a serger! It came threaded but yeah I watched a few vids and it looks like a giant pain, especially with the having to flip pieces up to get to the holes. THAT part I don't quite follow all the way. Tension-wise, I see how to adjust it (especially with the nifty, what to do if your stitch looks such and such a way thing I printed), but a lot of people just seem to leave their machines at 3 or 4. We will seeeeeeee....
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Thanks in advance for leather stuffs!
Also if you run in to trouble with the serger feel free to call me I might be able to help.
I think can give you one tip for serging, which I don’t think you’ll have seen elsewhere.
Normally it’s recommended that you sew your garment together and then serging the two seams at the same time to finish it.
But instead after you’ve cut the individual pattern pieces serge all the pieces individually this makes it so the edges are finished the entire time you’re working with the fabric.
Also if you make any mistakes you can take out any seams with out having to undo the serging.
Very cool that your going as Wiccan and Hulkling, I had a bet going with myself that you were going as Stature and Hawkeye, I owe myself a coke.
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