Tailor's Tacks - required here! |
Vogue 1215 has more details than she plans to cover in the class so it has required quite a bit of advanced planning. I completed my muslin a few weeks ago now. But I was never happy with the way the pin tucks looked. There are two down each front and both sides of the back. They are curved. One parallels the neck dart and then extends. And they intersect. Yikes!
The intersection just never looked good, IMO. I experimented - stop sewing just ahead of the first tuck and jump over it, carefully sew through it, and other variations on the theme. In fact, they more I looked at the pattern photo, the more I saw lumps in that version too. OK, you do have to look closely. I was ready to accept this little flaw, sort of.
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At Christmas I received a lovely book called *Manipulating Fabric* with lots of technical details. The author suggests an alternative to ordinary pin tucks. It involves using a twin needle and tightening the bobbin tension. I read this while traveling and could not wait to get home and try it.
AWESOME!!! Oops, sorry for yelling... I want to move this pattern into my "plan to do it soon" list (it will probably take awhile, but still....). I'm SO happy to let you be the guinea pig - I'll definitely follow your progress :)
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ReplyDeleteThis is actually the only way I have done pintucks for the last 15years or so. Change the size of needle, it changes the size of tuck. Is that the book by Wolfe? Great book if that is it. If not, who is the author? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)
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