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Knitting In January I made good progress on my Wearing Cardigan. I am on the sleeves now. This image includes the vintage buttons I’m going to use. This month I am ready to cast on the Working Shawl from Nordic knitting. I am also casting on a green Sophie Scarf for Shamrock Season...
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Over the next couple of weeks, I interfaced the fronts with silk organza, quilted the silk charmeuse lining to the front and back pieces, before joining them along the princess and side seams. I really enjoyed slipstitching the lining seams together by hand. Now that the body of the jacket...
Looking good! In this second picture, I was not careful and the fabric stretched just a bit. Now look at my seam: A walking foot and being careful not to stretch your fabric too much are the two best ways to avoid these gaping seams. There is more to this when it comes to finishing...
I made an extra collar piece and played around with the layout. I love how it came together in the back, and just put a few hand stitches to keep it in place. I overlapped the side seams and thought I would make a narrow strip and cover the seams. I like how that looks too. ...
Looking good! In this second picture, I was not careful and the fabric stretched just a bit. Now look at my seam: A walking foot and being careful not to stretch your fabric too much are the two best ways to avoid these gaping seams. There is more to this when it comes to finishing...
with detail at the neckline and side-ties, which is wrapped over itself and tied at the front and back. I was interested in trying this different design, but in reality I found it irritating to wear. The side seams inevitably gape (Exhibit A, the picture above), so you need to wear ...
This time I didn’t trim the seams and iron them flat, I simply pressed them to one side, then sewed the seams in the other direction, so there’s only twelve seams per block. You can see the lines of the seams a bit, but that would be eased by making the squares ever so ...
Method to manufacturing and shape seamless briefs on knitting machines The invention concerns a method for manufacturing on circular knitting machines briefs without seams and having a front and rear parts joined by a infra-leg crutch area and shaped to define two side openings for legs and an op...