day nineteen: basting
I actually had a gusset sewn into the sleeve when I pulled it out of my work bag tonight… the wrong way round. So now I’m resewing it, and basting everything in first. I watched a video by Mathew Gnagy (The Modern Maker) on speeding up your handsewing, and he made an excellent point that basting is superior to pinning because then the sewing thread doesn’t get wrapped around the pins and he is exactly right. Plus if I baste, I can try on the sleeve without risk to my delicate skin.
that’s actually the stitch line, but I need the basting to be there for the try-on
later… so I have the gusset figured out, but the sleeve is all wrong. The original find has sleeves made of two pieces, but I want such an extreme taper to the wrist that it crosses over the extra piece. Sooooo… I guess I’ll make new, one-piece sleeves. And now it’s 11:45, and I need to assess what I have prepped and what I need to do.
I’ll tell you this for nothing: I hate these 1cm seam allowances. They’re so huge and clunky. They look coarse, and like I can’t work smaller and finer. Next time I make one of these (and I’m pretty sure I will), the seams WILL be smaller.
last thing… I had a strip of an appropriate width and more than adequate length, so I just pulled the threads and made then the right length, and now I’m going to bed.
Night y’all.