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Getting there
Feb. 6th, 2015 09:51 amNot quite done, but getting there.
Not in love with the hood shape, but I never am with hoods so I will live with it.
I still have to fold the other edge of the fake fur under and stitch it down by hand. Somehow when I started this project I had the idea I could just lay a strip of the fur down and stitch it like an applique; that the pile of the fur would hang over the raw edges. Nope. It looked stupid, and I realized I have to turn an edge under AND wrap the fur strip around the edge of the wool like binding to make it look nice. Unfortunately I already hemmed the wool, which now seems to have been an unnecessary, bulk-adding step.
I stitched that first edge by machine, RS together. Then it got flipped around and I will have to spend a few hours stitching the other side around the edge by hand.
As much as I enjoy hand sewing, I am also a huge cheater and I tried and tried to come up with a non-sucky-looking way to machine this. Alas, I couldn't.
The hardest part of all this has been psyching myself up to cut the fur. I don't know why it seemed so scary! But I managed to be REALLY frugal and saved a large enough chunk for a muff, which I will set aside for some future date.
Not in love with the hood shape, but I never am with hoods so I will live with it.
I still have to fold the other edge of the fake fur under and stitch it down by hand. Somehow when I started this project I had the idea I could just lay a strip of the fur down and stitch it like an applique; that the pile of the fur would hang over the raw edges. Nope. It looked stupid, and I realized I have to turn an edge under AND wrap the fur strip around the edge of the wool like binding to make it look nice. Unfortunately I already hemmed the wool, which now seems to have been an unnecessary, bulk-adding step.
I stitched that first edge by machine, RS together. Then it got flipped around and I will have to spend a few hours stitching the other side around the edge by hand.
As much as I enjoy hand sewing, I am also a huge cheater and I tried and tried to come up with a non-sucky-looking way to machine this. Alas, I couldn't.
The hardest part of all this has been psyching myself up to cut the fur. I don't know why it seemed so scary! But I managed to be REALLY frugal and saved a large enough chunk for a muff, which I will set aside for some future date.
