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Final Steps

Stitching velcro to underlying layers

Stitching velcro to underlying layers

Adding velcrostrip along frame edge

Adding velcrostrip along frame edge

 
Basting border onto frame

Basting border onto frame

Placing Removable Panel

Placing Removable Panel

 

Recollecting some of the last structural manoeuvres performed before finishing off this already burgeoning Mystery Project by stitching the decorative border tightly fixed onto the heavilly padded framework.

Cutting Fabric

Pulling out a threadCutting on missing thread

When a dividing line needs to be straight and ripping the material is not a valid option, cutting a little snip right into the fabric-fold might allow the picking up of a single thread and pulling it all the way out, carefully gathering and easing the woven textile as you go, to end up leaving a clear mark to cut on.

Assemblage

Border, Outer and Inner Facings, both compiled throught most suitable methods.

As the Mystery Project‘s border-work is composed out of very long yet narrow pieces of fabric, it would have been a terrible waste to harvest these along the length of the materials when breaking them up into multiple shorter parts could span the width of the roll, saving as much on resources as possible.

Where for this project’s velvet outer-face such orientational choice demands the combination of pieces to be turned into a small work of art, the enclosed padding is much more easily begotten by aligning tapes and merging them with small strips of lining, neatly cross-stitched through front and back.

Pleated Ruffles

Ruffle sequence (1), drawn (2) and stitched (3) on pleated fabrics, turned inside-out (4)

Having stitched the jagged-line ruffle-sequence into the silk and lining (basted spread-open right sides together), turning them inside-out makes their pleats fall consummately into each-other.

Before doing so, there is still  the necessary notching of the seam followed by iron-pressing the slanting edges inwards,  in order to obtain discerningly cuspy points.

 

 

A little bit of everything…

Darts in RSS Wrong SideFolded-over layers on RSS Right Side

Reducing the Red Shirt Sleeve to half its width takes basting, sewing, folding, pressing, measuring, remeasuring plus above all: utmost attention.

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