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Almost eyeletted

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Trystan
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Ran out of thread! Sewed all but three eyelets on this bodice (while sitting around at Grandmom’s house in the days after my paternal grandfather’s funeral in Pensacola, Florida).

Mom showed me how to do a proper buttonhole stitch instead of the basic overcast binding thing I learned from the RenTailor site. But my hand-sewn eyelets are still as crappy as ever. Now they just have that little ridge that the buttonhole stitch creates. *shrug*

I may finish up these last three eyelets at stitch ‘n bitch this Wednesday, but I have to prep the pink MQoS pieces first. Want to take those to Boston. I may be getting the hang of this sewing on the road thing…

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