Jeans techniques are challenging my sewing skills, however I've also get just a few other... sewing projects going. I refit B5526, got another shirt partially cut out of it, and began working on fitting a new (to me) tee shirt, the Hot Patterns Weekend Sunshine Top .
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Oh dear, my journey into the land of the flat-felled is not following a smooth - or straight - road Woof! Look at that topstitching line!!!! You can practically hear the sound effects as the needle moves back and forth, right? Believe it or not, I was focusing on the toe of my presser foot lining up as I sewed, but it looks like I need to find better visual guidelines. |
This light-weight denim moves around Did I actually trim one edge too close? |
Hummmm...
1) It does appear that the glue stick was the culprit in the jamming. I have certainly used glue sticks successfully in the past for a variety of projects, as have many other sewists, but perhaps when working with heavy weight fabric, or maybe it's the heavy denim needle, that may not be a good idea. So, one problem solved, it didn't jam.
2) I'm not, however, making progress on the straight-line front. My topstiching was, if anything, even more crooked!
3) In addition I continued to have problems with a raw edge of fabric poking out from under my flat felled topstitching. I can't seem to get the longer edge to fit in underneath the trimmed seam. Am I trimming it too close to the seam? I wonder if that is causing this problem.
Next....
a) I'm going to focus on this flat-felled seam tutorial from Oliver + S, and see if I get any new ideas about what is proving to be surprisingly challenging for me.
b) I wonder if I should go for a wider seam allowance. I've been sewing a 5/8 " seam, typical for wovens, and trimming one seam down to about 1/8". Should I cut a 1" allowance and then trim the one seam down to.... maybe something closer to 1/4"? I might try the 1" seam on two different samples - one with a 1/4" trimmed seam and the other with the 1/8 - or at least very closely trimmed seam edge.
But first I'm going to read more about what others have to say about this type of seaming. In addition to the Oliver + S article, I'm going to look through the Pattern Review article "Make your own Jeans, You Can Do It" and also in my all-purpose Readers Digest sewing book.
Can you imagine how much more enchanted I'm going to be with sewing, on the day when I've resolved these challenges?
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