Tuesday, January 17, 2012

the underwear that wouldn't be

I posted recently about sewing underwear and I was feeling quite pleased with myself. Apparently that angered the sewing gods/goddesses/whatever.


notice how the 3 openings are all about the same size?

The coverstitch machine was in a foul mood, apparently.You can't see the chewed holes but they are there.


I had 2 more pairs cut out, and I went to the sewing dungeon to quickly sew them up, after all I had already made 7 pairs, right. Wrong. Really wrong. First of all I have to admit I haven't sewn a lot of knits. I realize now  I got lucky with the first bunch, the fabric was fairly forgiving. The last 2 not so much not at all. I believe the fabric was manufactured by beelzebub. The fabric curled if you looked at it, so stretching while sewing on the elastic was frustrating to say the least. I believe I may have made some new curse words and I had a pretty good swearing vocabulary already. The next thing that happened was I sewed the crotch seam to the side seam, and of course I didn't notice until much later, when I couldn't figure out which opening was for the waist, my thighs aren't small, but really. I should have noticed way sooner, the crotch lining wasn't nearly wide enough for my impromptu adaptation, I was stupid and overconfident. One pair down. The next pair was going along until the coverstitch machine jammed up several times and then decided to have a little snack and chewed holes in the fabric by beelzebub . At this point I gave up and I will sacrifice the remaining fabric to the god/goddess/whatever of sewing. 

Moral of the story, no matter how easy the pattern and how many times you have made it, pay attention and don't get cocky. I may have to needlepoint this on a cushion.

3 comments:

  1. I will buy that needlepoint pillow. Sorry this happened to you.

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  2. Oh, no! This sounds like my first (and thus far only, and abortive) attempt at making underwear. Maybe one of these days I'll get back to it. I love the fabric manufactured by beelzebub---I think I've used that from time to time.

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  3. My last machine thought that all knits were chew toys, you are braver than I!

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