Sewing time on effigy back
Sewing has been done for a couple of hours.
On the back bodies piece, the one where I had cut off the turnover part ( previous post here), I trimmed off the interlining fabric a little more than 1/4". I then turned the fashion fabric sides under 1/4" and carefully sewn down near the edge by machine. I did similar with the coutil layer. I remembered I had a handy new gadget that fits on a finger with a not too pointy awl end, which helps in feeding small amounts of fabric under the sewing foot. Sadly, the curved edge ripples a little, probably from the feeding through the machine even with my walking foot.
The two fabric layers were matched wrong sides together, then pinned and hand basted to hold the layers from shifting too much. I noticed that the spray basted layers actually stayed together pretty well now, unless I pulled a layer away. Then starting from the middle, I started sewing channel lines out to one edge, starting at the bottom, and ending short of the top edge about a half inch. Thankfully, the ripple problem seems to almost go away once the three layers are sewn together with the channels, so all is well. One half of the back piece now has channels, and I will do the other half tomorrow.
I don't get to create a pair of bodies like this often, so it is interesting to see how the channels, acting as quilting, really melds the various fabric layers together into a stronger item just on its own, without the bones in it even. Kinda like padstitching layers together. It's just cool to my mind.
Well... my brain shut off some time ago, so it is off to bed. Night all.
On the back bodies piece, the one where I had cut off the turnover part ( previous post here), I trimmed off the interlining fabric a little more than 1/4". I then turned the fashion fabric sides under 1/4" and carefully sewn down near the edge by machine. I did similar with the coutil layer. I remembered I had a handy new gadget that fits on a finger with a not too pointy awl end, which helps in feeding small amounts of fabric under the sewing foot. Sadly, the curved edge ripples a little, probably from the feeding through the machine even with my walking foot.
The two fabric layers were matched wrong sides together, then pinned and hand basted to hold the layers from shifting too much. I noticed that the spray basted layers actually stayed together pretty well now, unless I pulled a layer away. Then starting from the middle, I started sewing channel lines out to one edge, starting at the bottom, and ending short of the top edge about a half inch. Thankfully, the ripple problem seems to almost go away once the three layers are sewn together with the channels, so all is well. One half of the back piece now has channels, and I will do the other half tomorrow.
I don't get to create a pair of bodies like this often, so it is interesting to see how the channels, acting as quilting, really melds the various fabric layers together into a stronger item just on its own, without the bones in it even. Kinda like padstitching layers together. It's just cool to my mind.
Well... my brain shut off some time ago, so it is off to bed. Night all.