sewing tips!
Jun. 5th, 2009 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42http://unapologeticallyfat.blogspot.com/2009/06/saas-sewing-at-any-size-making-bad.html
This post is super cool! I've done the gaping-buttons fix on polo shirts but I haven't tried inserting vertical darts yet; that one will be very useful. Why do they make the buttons come so much lower on women's polo shirts anyway? They put three buttons on men's polo shirts and six or more on women's. Why? Just in case you want to undo all the buttons for Girls Gone Wild? Seriously, the bottom button is at the level of your solar plexus, nobody would walk around with them all unbuttoned and nobody's head is that large that they'd need to undo all the buttons to put the shirt on. So I sewed them up so only the top three buttons can actually be undone. It worked out really well. I can't sew by hand, I have to use the machine but on a machine it's really simple. I can see darts would be a little more tricky because you have to make them symmetrical but I think I can handle it.
In other sewing news, the dress is nearing completion, except for the dreaded zipper (I've never done a zipper before). Maybe I'll get to that this weekend; the sewing machine and ironing board are sort of cluttering up the living room. I could set up in the kitchen instead but then I wouldn't be able to watch Scrubs.
This post is super cool! I've done the gaping-buttons fix on polo shirts but I haven't tried inserting vertical darts yet; that one will be very useful. Why do they make the buttons come so much lower on women's polo shirts anyway? They put three buttons on men's polo shirts and six or more on women's. Why? Just in case you want to undo all the buttons for Girls Gone Wild? Seriously, the bottom button is at the level of your solar plexus, nobody would walk around with them all unbuttoned and nobody's head is that large that they'd need to undo all the buttons to put the shirt on. So I sewed them up so only the top three buttons can actually be undone. It worked out really well. I can't sew by hand, I have to use the machine but on a machine it's really simple. I can see darts would be a little more tricky because you have to make them symmetrical but I think I can handle it.
In other sewing news, the dress is nearing completion, except for the dreaded zipper (I've never done a zipper before). Maybe I'll get to that this weekend; the sewing machine and ironing board are sort of cluttering up the living room. I could set up in the kitchen instead but then I wouldn't be able to watch Scrubs.
