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... so I have about 100 bucks worth of georgette fabric... two seperate circle skirts to be layered. Nice great I love it. And I was fussing with the one that is all done (just needed hem) and it pulled out of the bias tape casing! so its georgette fine nasty stuff thats trying to pull little threads and making it all catty whompus
so what do I do? I mean I can't just take it apart and shove it back together! =( I'm not good with fine fabrics like this... only with cheap stuff or heavy jacards! help! I'll take a picture later right now I'm going to go to bed and not cry... its all hand sewn, I don't have a machine! meh... help help!
so what do I do? I mean I can't just take it apart and shove it back together! =( I'm not good with fine fabrics like this... only with cheap stuff or heavy jacards! help! I'll take a picture later right now I'm going to go to bed and not cry... its all hand sewn, I don't have a machine! meh... help help!
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count blessings....
Mon, November 3, 2008 - 7:13 PMBasha, it is a blessing that it pulled out now instead of when you were dancing in it.
If I understand correctly, the waist of your skirt is a bias tape casing applied to the inside of your skirt top. And you are handsewing this.
When I deal with fabrics that fray, I always make sure that I have a very deep seam allowance. In the case of your skirt waist, I would fold the raw edge over and stitch it down as though I were making a hem with unfinished edges, and use that folded edge as the new 'raw edge.' The increased distance from seam to raw edge, and the fold in the middle, discourages seam displacement and migration and eventual failure.
In your case, you probably need to make the waist opening larger in order to cut away the frayed edges. Then proceed as above re: deep seam allowance and folded raw edge. And if you have a friend with a sewing machine .... in this situation I'd say the sewing machine will produce the strongest seams. But! I think what I have suggested above will work fine with handsewing.
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Re: count blessings....
Wed, November 5, 2008 - 3:27 AMMaura, Can the top of the gorgette be reinforced with something like iron-on interfacing? The really thin kind? I have a panel skirt doing the same thing. The fabric is sandwiched between the bias tape and is not pulling out but fraying from the edge of the bias tape where it was sewn together. -
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Wed, November 5, 2008 - 3:29 AMthats what I've been toying w/ going back and doing an iron on hem or something interfacing then restitching. bleck... by hand it seems like a daunting task... I guess I Need to start digging in the phone book for a repair shop! I keep hearing dollars when I'm trying to save... wlasdjflaksjf
boo hiss!
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Thu, November 6, 2008 - 8:32 AMTry a dab or two of fabric glue. It dries clear and flexible and stops the fray. Or try fray check. squeeze it on the seam past the point where it's fraying. -
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Mon, November 10, 2008 - 5:07 PMI think I is going to try the fabric glue w/ a combination of doubling up the skirt up to the casing.
sigh... I sort of moved on and I'm going to work on the bra, b/c we all know that stopping it and putting it away is ALWAYS the answer! =) on the upside.... my eyelet tape and new fan are on their way. =) Looking on the bright side here!
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Thu, November 6, 2008 - 1:43 PMIf I understand you correctly, your fabric is wearing away at the seam line. Definately want to reinforce it. I'd wnt to loosen the seams so that the bias tape is out of the way. Woven fusible is stronger than non-woven IMO. You might even try fusing the worn fabric to a stronger fabric (using that two-sided sticky stuff- forget its name just now) , then stitching boxes within boxes over the reinforcement so that the fashion fabric and the reinforcement fabric are now as close to one fabric as possible. Keep in mind that when it starts to go in one place, other places are right behind, so removing the bias tape, thoroughly repairing the fashion fabric, and then reattaching the casing is a good thing to consider.
Also - if the skirt waist is an elastic casing attached to the back of the skirt, the skirt fabric is undergoing extra stress from the crumpling of the fabric and the pull of the elastic. If you have an appropriate casing fabric, consider making a casing that is completely attached to the TOP of the skirt, not the back, or convert to a non-elastic waistband. -
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Fri, November 7, 2008 - 5:05 AMA triple-layer casing would be another way to protect the fashion fabric from the stress of the elastic; fashion fabric on outside of casing with two layers of bias tape on the inside, elastic runs between the two layers of bias tape.
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Re: AH IT RIPPED! =(
Mon, November 3, 2008 - 7:44 PMI wish we lived closer! I could sell you a machine really cheaply! I pick them up at auctions. I usually pay 20 dollars or less for them. One that I use a lot, I only paid 2 dollars for it! Check out auction houses in your area. Many will have websites that let you look online at what they will be selling. Hint..... sometimes when they are selling cabinet machines, they don't even know that it is a sewing machine. (they will look like little tables with an extra molding detail on the top, in case you are not familiar with them flickr.com/photos/spidra/2214257968/ ) Maybe you can find one! Shipping costs so much that it probably would not be economical for us to get together on this! Good luck! -
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Re: AH IT RIPPED! =(
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 3:39 AMfunny thing is... my bf mom gave me her old one... its a work horse but needs a tune up as I can't get the tensions right on it... and I'm not familar enough w/ the older models to really tinker, but I think they wanted 250 or something to tune up!
ah...
yeah it is a good thing now rather than later!! Hmmm I'll see what I can do to get pictures.... essentially I think we are speaking same terms... half inch bias tape (I think its half inch!) with one edge sewed to one side, then flipped and sewn to the other side making a casing for the elastic...
the problem I guess would be its like in the middle of the skirt not on a edge... grumble grumble. fortunately I think there is more than enough length as it's been hanging for oh... three months (probably a contributing factor) so its fully stretched to fold up an inch and just sew to maybe the top of the casing. grrrr. -
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Re: AH IT RIPPED! =(
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 5:52 AMIf fraying is a big problem use fray check or fabric glue all along the cut edge.
Is the casing bias tape on one side and skirt fabric on the other? Or is the bias tape folded so that the elastic goes through bias tape only and the skirt fabric is tucked in between? -
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Re: AH IT RIPPED! =(
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 8:00 AMum.... fabric is sandwiched between I believe and the elastic runs through.
fraying is an issue but really hadn't been considering it all got sewn up. But I'm guessing something frayed above the seam or it just feel out of it from hanging so long (hanging since end of may)! Lesson number one with light fabric!!!
nope... no manual! I played with it, took it into the viking center in joanns but they ship all their stuff out... but she showed me how to thread it and what not... sounds clean and functional, just can't get the tensions right. I fiddled with the bobbin and it seemed to help, but then the top was all out of wack.
I think I might be over my head w/ the georgette stuff, so I might seeing as I now have a completion datel (Nov 29th) take it to a seamstress and say FIX IT PWEASE!!! -
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Re: AH IT RIPPED! =(
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 4:29 PMYou may want to look in the phone book for a place that does sewing machine repairs, usually the places that fix vacuums also fix sewing machines. Or try at a quilting shop sometimes they have someone local that does the work. My sewing machine had a problem with tension & it needing a cleaning and was able to get it good as new for about $70 with tax at a local quilting place.
I can't help much with the skirt fix sorry :-(
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Re: AH IT RIPPED! =(
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 6:53 AMDid she also give you an owners manual? If not, look up the manufacturer or model on Google, you might find one on line that will help. It might just need a good cleaning which you can do yourself
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