Thank you to everyone for all of your wonderful
comments! I loved reading them all.
And so, without further ado, the winner (courtesy of random.org) is:
This would be great as I'm self taught and could use the video instruction.
Congratulations Tia! Please contact me at lauramae.p.s[at]gmail[dot]com with your address so I can send you your goodies!
In response to the question of what you feel needs the most
work to improve your overall sewing experience, the majority of you said
EVERYTHING!! I think everyone is being a
little hard on themselves (or perhaps everyone is obsessed with being the
complete renaissance sewer who can do anything and everything with great skill!).
Following closely behind was Fitting/Tailoring and Zippers.
Why are we all so afraid of zippers?! I believe it must be some sort of conspiracy. Someone is whispering in our ears that they
should be difficult, and we believe them.
Well I say we buck that trend.
After all, a zipper is just a little doohickey that gets added to a
plain old seam so we can open and close the darn thing.
So I say we take Carole’s advice and build confidence in our
skills so those silly zippers do not defeat us!
Hi. My tip for combating zips is to sew them in by hand using a tiny backstitch. I don't think there's any shame in this - afterall, how many couture techniques are hand stitched! It's sturdy and can give a virtually invisible result. Machine tack and press open the seam first then tack the zip in place before hand stitching. It may sound like a lot of work, but in the long run I always find it the quickest method - no endless unpicking and re-sewing. I've done this with both normal and invisible zips.
ReplyDeleteI've also found that putting the zip in a side seam (sew the first inch of the top of the seam and then leave a gap for the zip before completing the seam) eliminates the hassle of trying to get a neat top edge on a back seam zip. I still have yet to master that.
Hope this helps.