What a Summer!
I have truly slipped up this summer keeping up with this blog. For good reason, I have been "sew" busy with orders and such that I have not had much time getting on to blog!
Well, lets get down to what I have been doing! First is the Drill team I coach...our uniform order got messed up so we chose to make some...which of course left me to make them. I also had another lady help with half the work because it was too much for me to handle!
We decided to do a simple circle skirt, easy enough right? NO...then we decided we wanted to use Lame! Can I just say Lame has to be the most difficult material to work with in my experience! The Blue Lame was actually ok, but the Silver was a nightmare. It snags horribly! So my battle was that if I interfaced it, it would either be too stiff or too heavy. If I did not then of course we were going to have a snagged mess. BTW, these skirts are two-sided and reversible! SO...What I realized I was going to have to do, is outline the skirts with 1/2 inch strips of interfacing. I used a fusible interfacing which of course I had to iron on through a cloth because lame will melt with any contact with an iron. But after all was said and done...They are beautiful!