Ancestors

Written by Sini Tuulia on 2025-01-19 at 16:25

For my sanity I absolutely need to stop working on this sleeve and arm's eye, now. 😆 It no longer deeply offends my sensibilities, doesn't horribly go wrong when I move, and the sleeve head sits alright enough that I can baste it down (it's just on with safety pins here). Then heat-form a bone and slap it on all along the side back seam for good measure. And see about the other sleeve, small gods of sewing preserve me. 😶 (Fitting gifs.)

[#]CinnamonLinenJacket #Sewing

=> View attached media | View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from sinituulia@eldritch.cafe

Written by Sini Tuulia on 2025-01-19 at 16:26

It's all sewn down with machine basting stitches now, so it's not perfect nor can be, but you can see the fit well enough to unpick where necessary etc.

Also I've been using a different colour thread for the gathering stitches, the basting, the stay-stitches and the actual stitching. So I can see what the bloody hell line of sewing I'm actually looking at!

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from sinituulia@eldritch.cafe

Written by Sini Tuulia on 2025-01-19 at 19:24

I'm definitely never ever making any type of complex open jacket thing ever again. The second sleeve is not on, though there's only a little bit of adjustment I need to make until I can try to put it on. (And when I say little I mean there's a centimetre to shift, there's some four layers of unpicking until I can get to it.)

I'm just not at all enjoying this. It would be so much easier if someone else could just fucking fit this thing on me but I don't know anyone in my city who knows how! 😭

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from sinituulia@eldritch.cafe

Toot

Written by Kake on 2025-01-19 at 20:39

@sinituulia Much sympathy — in my own sleeve-fitting adventures I’ve also wished for another sewist who could help me out. So many things it would make easier!

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from kake@sunny.garden

Descendants

Written by Sini Tuulia on 2025-01-19 at 20:40

@kake It would be so much easier in so many ways! Heck, even the option of someone draping something on you. The dream

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from sinituulia@eldritch.cafe