I made my first lined pouch today. It turned into Tien Lee’s Christmas present. Not really sure what she’ll keep in it, as it’s roughly the dimension of a 6-stick pack of White Owls.
Now that I have a lined pouch and a zipper under my belt, I’m going to do something a bit more subtle, using some of my silk evasion maps as a liner.
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I tried out some appliqué techniques today.
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The blue fabric, even though I ironed on some backing, was still too lightweight to take the applique, and puckered. I had the thread tension very low already, so I don’ tthink there was much I could do. I did some other applique on a piece of canvas, and there was, no surprise, no pucker.
I still don’t center the needle perfectly at the edge of the appliqué, so the coverage isn’t always great. Of course, I’m also battling impatience… there is always an urge to fire off a lot of stitches before stopping and rotating the fabric.
One annoying thing about my sewing machine is that it is very hard to iterate the movements of the pedal. I will want, for example to do exactly three forward stitches, and for the needle to stop on the left. It’s hard to do just three stitches, let alone stop on the correct side. Would be nice if there was some sort of pulse feed control I could use to toggle through the process. I would assume there are machines optimized for appliqué, alas this doesn’t seem to be one.
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