I stumbled across a serious Lands' End sale a few weeks back and decided to pick up a few things to fill in some gaps in my wardrobe...until I can get some sewing done. Got a couple of shirts and a couple of pairs of black pants.
One of the shirts fit fine, the other, being a sleeveless shirt, had a bit of gaposis. There's an unsewn dart in the armhole and it is quite unattractive when worn.
But, I have McGyvered a solution to this problem before, so I pulled out my textured nylon serger thread and a large - eyed needle to tackle the problem.
Then I run the needle through the bias binding
All the way to the side seam.
Once the thread is through, I do a slight mark w/ a soft pencil on the thread right where it exits the fabric, then tug it up a good inch past that point. Take several stitches, then knot the thread off and bury the tail in the binding.
I put it on after I'd done the right side; you can see the gaping on the left. The armhole looks a little puckery on the hanger but it's not noticeable when worn.
My Sweet Babboo needed some patches sewn on his Royal Ranger utility uniform. This is all very specific as to what goes where and how it should be spaced.
I had some ancient Wonder Tape, which didn't stick really well to the plastic coated backside of the patches, but it gripped enough that it didn't shift when I sewed the patches. Some are embroidered; some are just velcro pile so the patches can be switched easily to reflect the most recent event/ achievement/ class/ etc. I was able to sew on all the patches except the ones on the chest pockets...my machine just couldn't get into that tight space. He'll hand sew those.
Finally, I hemmed one of the pairs of black jeans. These are wide-legged, with a deep hem. I turn the hem up so that the very narrow folded edge is exposed on the wrong side (the edge is just barely visible on the bottom layer), then just do a catch stitch between the new cuff and the pants.
This works really well and makes the pants suitable for shorty me to wear with flat shoes, lol
I also got a bit of new fabric; I was just going to get some dusty olive linen for a pair of pants, using the credits I'd earned at Fabric-store.com. I thought I could just redeem enough points to get the 2 yards of rustic fabric, but found that I could only use all of them at once. So I ordered some of the midweight linen in the same color, some optic white midweight, and one of the cotton prints. They are all currently in the wash for the pre-shrink but I do intend to sew those up fairly soon. I hope, lol. It was 8 yards of fabric for only about $36, after my credit, since it was actually over the minimum for free shipping. So not gonna complain, lol.
I need to make some time to get in the sewing room....
