Weather forecast was rubbish so I decided to have a crafty day.
Unfortunately the sewing cottons didn't arrive for the over-locker and having watched a video for the coco dress where the the vlogger didn't recommend a new over-locker user to do the whole dress with an over-locker, I decided to do half and half.
Pulled out the sewing machine, found a you tube video for the coco dress and off I went. My plan was to do the shoulders and neck on my sewing machine and get the over locker out for the side seams.
What could go wrong?
The blooming neck.....
Totally mucked it up, stretched out of shape, tried to rectify but it just looks horrid. Luckily I cut out the dress size so can cut down and make the shorter top version.
I stay stitched it, took it easy, followed all the blooming directions so not sure how I managed to stretch it so badly. My only thoughts are that the pattern asked you to sew both shoulders up then do the neck, so somewhere will jiggling around I must have stretched it. Next time I am only going to sew up one shoulder seam so its easier to do neck and then sew the other shoulder up.
I do think I may have been wiser to start off with a non stretch fabric to get back in the swing of things....
That does sound like quite a challenge but it's a lovely fabric and just a shame it's so stretchy.
ReplyDeleteJersey fabric is a bugger at the best of times and that material might have responded better to being overlocked before you sewed the front and back together? I am absolutely NOT EXPERT so don't quote me.
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