Ok, I know what my problem is...
May. 26th, 2006 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovetriangleRegarding 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.
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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Date: 2006-05-27 02:01 am (UTC)What kind of frame do you have supporting your sewing for handwork? For straps I wrap one end around the side of a frame pull the rest taut and pin it to the other and then wrap unwrap as I go. It stabilises it enough but not to the point where the tension of the sewing thread goes slack once it's off.
http://costumes.glittersweet.com/lotr/eowyn.htm
That's how I did the belt for the second dress. Same kind of trim, but old gold floss. Oh and I used beading needles;) I think I used back stitch through the middle only.
It's usually more to do with tension than neatness of handsewing that causes it to go skewwiff when handsewing braid:) I know, been there;)
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Date: 2006-05-29 04:21 am (UTC)I've used beading needles before but I must admit that I can't thread the damn things anymore. ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I ran a few strips through my machine again this afternoon and it wasn't as bad as before. I used a lube on the needle, very thin thread and the size 9 needle because I haven't found 8's yet. It's ok. Not great, but ok.
I'm home with Claire all day tomorrow so I'll drag her out in search of small needles.