tailoring day 6

Hours +8

Today was an interesting, educational day of tailoring... I started by finishing my chain stitching, and closing the lining along my shoulder seams. Then, I made up my collar, with two layers of cavas, and a layer of organza, similar to the cuffs earlier. My top collar fabric was the same as the real fabric (interfaced) and my under collar was the real fabric, without interfacing. After bagging it all out, and pressing it nicely into shape, I pinned, tacked, and sewed it to my neck edge! Then covered it in the CF trim, as per the original plans. This took me though till about 230pm, there were so many steps involved.

This brought me to an interesting point. I think the next step was going to be to instert my sleeves (by methods unknown), then the cuffs, then I would have a finished jacket. But, when we looked at my 3/4 made jacket on the stand, it seemed the CF, of each side, was pulling up. I pressed it, several times, over the ironing board, and the ham, and still it wasn't sitting happily when hanging (but was on the flat). I couldn't work it out (cos I don't know too much about tailoring), and Trish couldn't quite work it out, so we called in the pro - Thorsten. It was decided that my trim was sewn on too tight, and that the bulk of it hadn't fed through the sewing machine properly, causing it to pull and bunch and create creases. So, an hour and a half long process began of unpicking my trim all the way along my CF seams. It was disheartening, but I knew that it would make the difference it needed, so I was happy to keep working. After removing all my little threads, and re pressing the front, I hung it back on the stand, and noticed it was still bunching. This was half an hour before my finishing time for the day. We collectively decided it was now the lining that was pulling too tight, so my remaining half hour was spent unpicking half the height of my CF outer/lining seams. The jacket will now take an extra day to complete, knowing how long it takes to tack and sew the trim back on. Not to mention that I don't actually know how the CF will end up being fixed!

So now, I'm taking a three day weekend, and I will return to my tailoring on Monday.