Misnomer

[jethrien]

I'd say that I spent the evening sewing, but I didn't, really. I spent approximately five to ten minutes with a needle going up and down stitching two pieces of fabric together. Mostly what I spent the evening doing was cutting stitches, remeasuring, pinning, unpinning, and ironing. (In my experience, whenever you sew something, you spent maybe a quarter of the time actually sewing. Which makes it really hard for newbies to estimate how long projects will take--it's two seconds to make this seam, but it will take you twenty minutes to prep properly so the seam looks right.)

(I'm making alterations. A lot of alterations. While my weight hasn't changed much, my waist size has significantly and now nothing I own fits. I think I need to hit a professional tailor for some of these, though--I'm not really up for altering a lined jacket.)

Comments

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Altering lined things is HELL. Totally worth paying someone else to do it.