I've spent the majority of this week altering strapless bodice foundations based on pinning from fittings and then adjusting the paper patterns so I can cut outer fabric (with necessary ease added).
One thing I like to do is keep the center back seams as straight as possible to prevent issues with zippers and to keep the princess lines from getting tilted or shifted too close to center (it can look a little imbalanced when everything is too close together).
So here's a quick guide to moving a fitting alteration to another seam:
You can see all my stitch-lines marked on the fabric and my cleaned up pin line from fitting.
I moved the same curved line over to the side panel on the princess seam.
Then I popped all the stitches to separate the pieces and repinned new curved line to original center back panel stitchline.
I pinned at top and bottom and worked in to the center, weaving the pins a few times each. Basically, basting with pins to make sure everything was perfectly lined up before nailing it in place by machine.
You can see I checked to make sure I was right on the straight stitchline on the backside and the seam allowance edges are uneven (pic 5).
And after pinning, I held each pin in place and let the machine pull them out as I stitched so nothing shifted out of alignment (last photo).
#alterations #sewingtips
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
