Sewing woes
May. 8th, 2021 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartThis week I've decided to finally finish Little Emma's quiet book; the one I've been working on for half a year or so.
For those who are interested, the individual pages can be sighted here, on my Pinterest board.
All I have to do is the binding, even though it's a bit tricky, as you'll see. I've sewn the long internal binding stripe with the help of Louise because hand-sewing twice 30 centimetres is boring and takes forever (at least for me). Louise did the job in five minutes, even though she has problems with sewing in a straight line (= I'm incapable of holding the fabric straight during the process), so I had to undo the whole thing and then redo it.
Reminder for those new to this place: this is Louise, my handmaid:
In any case, today I made the spine of the book, and when I compared it with the long internal binding stripe I realized that I've cut the fabric wrongly somehow. The two things should have the same width - 14.5 centimetres - but the spine is only 13 centimetres wide. Which means that I not only will have to re-do the binding stripe, I'll also have to cut away a lot of fabric, having hereby wasted material by both pieces... material that I could have used for another project. I only had this one piece of the lovely polka-dotted fabric (bought it on a rests sale for this book), and now I have a lot of cut-away rags that won't be of use for anything.
I HATE waste! Especially when it's been caused by my own stupidity. I mean, this is the third quiet book I've made with the exact same binding method, for God's sake! One would think I had it internalized by now!
Obviously, one would be wrong. *le sigh*
For those who are interested, the individual pages can be sighted here, on my Pinterest board.
All I have to do is the binding, even though it's a bit tricky, as you'll see. I've sewn the long internal binding stripe with the help of Louise because hand-sewing twice 30 centimetres is boring and takes forever (at least for me). Louise did the job in five minutes, even though she has problems with sewing in a straight line (= I'm incapable of holding the fabric straight during the process), so I had to undo the whole thing and then redo it.
Reminder for those new to this place: this is Louise, my handmaid:
In any case, today I made the spine of the book, and when I compared it with the long internal binding stripe I realized that I've cut the fabric wrongly somehow. The two things should have the same width - 14.5 centimetres - but the spine is only 13 centimetres wide. Which means that I not only will have to re-do the binding stripe, I'll also have to cut away a lot of fabric, having hereby wasted material by both pieces... material that I could have used for another project. I only had this one piece of the lovely polka-dotted fabric (bought it on a rests sale for this book), and now I have a lot of cut-away rags that won't be of use for anything.
I HATE waste! Especially when it's been caused by my own stupidity. I mean, this is the third quiet book I've made with the exact same binding method, for God's sake! One would think I had it internalized by now!
Obviously, one would be wrong. *le sigh*
