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Buttonholes complete!

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 3, 2009
Last night I thread-traced all the markings for the buttonholes (truthfully, there’s no other way to mark the mohair!).  This morning I got up early and put in all five buttonholes, with very little effort (except on the first one where I accidentally sewed the buttonhole on the wrong side of the fabric!). I don’t know [...]
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Bound buttonholes

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 2, 2009
Despite 11 hour days at work, I have been working on bound buttonholes, practicing and trying several different methods.  Here are two of them, along with a button: I gave up on the second one halfway through as I didn’t like the look of it at all.  The organza patch was supposed to press invisibly away, [...]
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Buttons and buttonholes

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 30, 2009
Things have been moving a bit slower than I would have liked, but I am making some progress.  On Daryl’s advice, and after testing several options, I bought a yard and a half of tightly woven plum-colored flannel to use for interfacing.  I drafted the interfacing patterns, cut out the interfacing, and marked it with [...]
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Basting the backing

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 27, 2009
Daryl Lancaster and I swapped a couple of emails today – she was kind enough to offer some thoughts on the interfacing and backing.  As I had half suspected, the mohair is too loosely-woven to work well with a sewn-in organza backing.  (There are 1/16″ gaps between the threads!)  If I simply tack it to [...]
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Cutting and basting

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 26, 2009
Yesterday, after a deep breath, I took my courage in both hands and started cutting the fabric.  First I cut out the mohair (I botched one cut, so there was just barely enough fabric to finish!), then I cut the organza backing.  Then I started basting the organza to the mohair. I had planned to baste [...]
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