{"id":1686,"date":"2004-05-20T01:04:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T01:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trystancraft.com\/costume\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2021-08-24T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:20:05","slug":"skirting-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2004\/05\/20\/skirting-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Skirting the issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pirateskirt-inprogress.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1684\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1684 size-full\" title=\"Pirate skirt, in progress\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pirateskirt-inprogress.jpg?resize=300%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pirate skirt, in progress\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pirateskirt-inprogress.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pirateskirt-inprogress.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pirate skirt, in progress<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This skirt is hella cool, but it&#8217;s kicking my ass. All the hand sewing! My eyes are blurry, my back aches. Last night, it was sewing the pleats to the waistband. Tedious as all heck, especially since I made the pleats probably a smidge too small. The skirt&#8217;s pleated edge ended up being <strong>exactly<\/strong> the same length as the waistband, but that&#8217;s only because I sewed the edge very tightly to the waist. Y&#8217;know, I just realized that makes almost no sense in text. Well, you had to be there.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the tight-pleat fiasco, yesterday&#8217;s work went faster than tonight&#8217;s sewing hooks and snaps at the closure. Of course, I did stop to iron the 5 yards of skirt after I sewed the one seam. Now all I have to do is hem it, and you couldn&#8217;t pay me enough to hem it by hand, no way siree bob. I am doing that sucker on the machine, and anyone who doesn&#8217;t like it can bugger off. If you&#8217;re looking at my hem, you&#8217;re no friend of mine.<\/p>\n<p>I might possibly use iron-on hem tape, my secret saviour. I *big puffy heart* that stuff! I use it everywhere and don&#8217;t have any problems. The only consideration here is which is more annoying and time-consuming: (1) pinning, folding, ironing, then machine-sewing the hem or (2) pinning, folding, ironing and ironing on the hem tape at the same time? Sounds like the later would be faster&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have to make another trip to the fabric store (ain&#8217;t that the way it always is?). Need purple ribbons for the hat and can get more hem tape too. I can never have enough packets of that stuff in black laying around.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime this weekend, I need to get cracking on the coat&#8217;s buttons and trim. 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