a teeny test eyelet

[elizabeth_mn]

Progress: made 3 pairs of summer pants for The Girl, altered the pattern for L's kirtle and cut it out.

I decided there is no way around hand-sewing the eyelets for L's dress(es).  I briefly toyed with the idea of using some kind of ribbon loops for lacing, but who am I kidding?  It needs real eyelets.  Plus I ought to brush up on hand-sewn buttonholes for HB's doublet.

Now, I haven't hand-sewn an eyelet since about 2002 (I really had to think about this one).  I spent hours doing them and then the garment ended up not fitting at all, so I scrapped the whole thing and swore I'd never waste my time like that again.

That was a long time ago.  I feel better now.

Anyway, I grabbed a scrap yesterday and tried to see if I still remember how to do it.  I guess the answer is sort of?


Front:
 

Back:



It's oval, not round, but it would totally work and I think I could work the next ones rounder.  I might make the real ones over a metal ring, but I'm not sure.  I know I used rings last time, but I don't know how common that is/was and what difference it makes.  I do know that I'd use button rings (like for making thread buttons) instead of jump rings like I used last time, because the split in the jump rings made them keep poking out from under the stitches.

Edit:   I realize now that I made my buttonhole stitch go the other way round from what most people seem to do, so that the 'bar' part edges the opening.  Since that's how buttonholes are done, I just assumed, but now I wonder, who do people reverse that on eyelets?

Comments

[undycat.livejournal.com]

It's a good start. My eyelets look super wonky when I do them by hand. I'd be tempted to make them by machine and then do buttonhole stitch around the edges to make it look handsewn without worrying about distorting the shape, but I don't know if that would even work.

[ashamanja-babu.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I know my machine can sew eyelets, but you need some sort of attachment that I don't have and which frankly looks way scarier than doing it by hand.