Ok, I know what my problem is...

[lovetriangle]

Regarding the PDSvN dress, anyway.

I get hung up on projects when I attack a certain aspect of it and it doen't work/look the way I want it to. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don't want to work on the entire thing again until I come up with a solution to the sticking point.

My current hang-up is the strapwork sections on the kirtle for the PDSvN dress. I like the look and everything is cut out but the silver soutache gets torn up by even a size 9 machine needle. I've done 3/4 of a panel by hand and my sticthing isn't fine enough - it looks lumpy and I'll have to tear it out.

I really want to do this by machine to make sure it sits flat on the sleeves. Not to mention there are 4 panels per sleeve and I'll be working on this to my grave if i try and do it by hand. Any suggestions?

Here's what the design looks like:


And here's the braid style - but all metallic.

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[love3angle.livejournal.com]

Yeah that makes sense. I had been stitching it right down the middle with a running stitch but it just isn't smooth because my hand stitching isn't that fine.

The other thing is that the trim I'm using is all metallic, not striped like the picture, and that is teh root of my problem. The metal outerlayer doesn't like to be pierced. I like the overcast stich from the edge idea and it may not show using gray thread...

I'll ty a couple of things over the weekend and report back.