Project DS - Back on Track
No Comments »Another weekend dedicated to kite building actually went slightly more to plan than the previous one, now the new sewing machine has arrived.
Everything has been a bit trial and error, despite having a folder of instructions and a whole 83 (or so) pages of forum to peruse (whenever there are a few hours spare!!). The double sided tape we have been using to attach pieces together before sewing has proven both to be indispensible, and a pain in the backside! For holding the pieces together ready to sew without any worry of them moving against each other its great, particularly when we are now looking at three pieces of fabric at a time. For actually sewing it has been a problem as the sticky stuff stays on the needle, then the machine starts missing stitches and I am having to constantly clean the needle with silcone spray to remove it.
Eventually, we managed to get all of the yellow pieces sewn together - that gives us the centres for both sides of the kite - next step is to start joining the other colours onto these bits, and this is where sewing three pieces comes into things. Each yellow piece now needs both a pink and a black piece joined onto it. The technique we finally came up with is a bit fiddly, but seems to work - it involves sewing the first line of stitches which hold the pieces together, then removing the tape (with difficulty) before sewing the second line which binds the raw edges back onto the kite making a double seam. This way the needle doesn’t have to go through the sticky tape at all - problem solved!
Progress was good - having a break for a while now though as I will be off to Brean (a Plus holiday) next weekend. There will be no doubt a lot of problems ahead to solve before we get this finished, and certainly a ton more sewing, but its now feeling like we’re actually getting somewhere!
