Hrm. I'm at once more pleased and less pleased with the final product. It's a lot harder to sew with no interfacing because it's not as thick and it doesn't want to glide around all those little tight corners. This first one took me about two hours, and even allowing for the fact that I'll get quicker, that's depressing. My one other beef is all of the little inside curves (like the web of your fingers) are bunched up, and other than snipping the seam allowance on the inside I don't know how to make those go away. They are much pointer, better looking leaves though. I'll get pictures of the setup tomorrow once I'm home from easter. I still need to sew the leaf veins on and slipstich the opening shut. Centerpiece count=1. Well, almost one.
Posted by Janine at April 20, 2003 01:00 AMI secure enough in my masculinity to hold a sewing needle or run a sewing machine. If it involves a sharp object piercing something else over and over again, I'm game!
Posted by: Austin on April 20, 2003 06:54 PMi'll volunteer to cut interfacing. i am good at cutting!
Posted by: D on April 20, 2003 10:18 PM. . . and we all sound psychotic.
Posted by: D on April 20, 2003 10:18 PMI volunteer to...supervise.
Posted by: Shawn on April 20, 2003 11:40 PMI think I'll keep doing them without interfacing, but I'll save all the sewn, inside-out ones in a pile and let someone else help flipping them back right side out, poking out the points, and ironing. That's what took about a half-hour of the time.
Posted by: Janine on April 21, 2003 07:29 AMsounds good to me. i like to flip things off out.
Posted by: D on April 21, 2003 11:03 PMOh, D used the strikethrough font for the second time!
Posted by: Shawn on April 22, 2003 05:06 PMWhen was the first? Any why are you counting?
Posted by: Austin on April 22, 2003 06:53 PMThe first was on her journal a few months ago. Why am I counting? I have no idea.
Posted by: Shawn on April 22, 2003 07:30 PM*snaps* for knowing that!
Posted by: D on April 24, 2003 07:05 PM