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.

Comments

[peggyelizabeth.livejournal.com]

you might have to loosen the tension on the machine a little bit, but the smaller needle might just do it.