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[totchipanda]

I am currently on hold with my two dresses because I need interfacing. I have a few scraps lying around, nothing wide enough for anything substantial.

Y'all... how do I interface? I've always purchased non-woven fusible, and I can NEVER get it stuck right. Even when it seems to stick, it comes loose. Totally fine when I'm also stitching it down but annoying when it's coming loose before I can sew it. I've used wool setting with steam and no steam, hold and press for 10 seconds, use a press cloth, let it rest until completely cool, just about everything I've gleaned from various places. How do?!

Except to the ironing board. It sticks to the ironing board just fine.

I need some knit fusible for the blazer project, so that will be on the list for sure. The rest... I don't know what's best. I need mostly facing and buttonhole stabilizers. Stuff for waistbands.

New role at work is going OK so far. I only have access to one part of it to start with, and it's pretty straightforward. The rest will come as accesses are put into place. So I still have lots of time to write fanfic and ponder my wardrobe sewing lol.

I stared at Deer & Doe's wardrobe book collection again. I'm good on dresses (or will be when these two are done), but I could use a skirt (midi-maxi length). Then I really need to make my pants work (although three of the same style is BORING so that makes at least one new pair totes fine ;) I have my eye on Mitchell trousers) and I MUST work on some shirts! I. Need. Shirts!

A friend sent me their Pinterest board and I just super love the look of teens-era separates. I think I could get away with those for modern wear too, particularly if I used either basic fabrics or really fun ones. Can you imagine? Say a 1917 blouse made with like, a lemon print. How fun would that be? I keep looking at various indie-made patterns when really, I can get away with SO MUCH with my own skills and patterns I already own.

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[danabren]

I have no luck making fusible interfacing stick to anything except the ironing board and the iron. Everything else, if I am lucky it adheres for long enough to either get attached to the other garment pieces, or I can get to the machine to edge stitch it in place.

Phooey.

[totchipanda]

Why is this so complicated. I was watching sewing videos and none of them seem to have issues. They must have magic interfacing!

[danabren]

.... the jerks.

[house_wren]

It should be called CONFUSABLE INTERFACING!

I've never gotten it to work.

Love hearing about your sewing, by the way. It's inspiring.

At the moment I am not well enough to do anything but dream, so I live vicariously through the people who post about their sewing projects.

[totchipanda]

Confusable! I love that bc it IS.

Im glad you enjoy reading the trials:) i had a peek through your journal and i want you to know that whatever you can manage at your current pace is perfect. I struggled for so long enjoying others' processes while also being envious that i couldn't manage the same pace or level of sewing, and then i crashed and burned for like a year and a half and couldn't sew at all. So now i work at a pace that works for me and thats a handful of hours a week, max lol. In the meantime, i will happily entertain you with every little step of the project ;) Wishing you all the best!!

[house_wren]

I crashed and burned, too. It was after working in fabric stores in college - couldn't stand the thought of sewing after that. Plus, three of my relatives were super seamstresses and they were very free with their criticism about what I made, especially about how slow I was. I was too easily influenced by them. I mean, really, what's so great about speed?!
I agree with you whole-heartedly about working at your own pace; that's the way to some contentment.

[marianme]

For fusible interfacings, I thoroughly wet the interfacing, then iron it with the iron on the highest setting the fashion fabric will allow with the steam on the iron off. Starting in the middle of the interfacing and working out, 10 seconds at a time until all the water on the interfacing has been ironed off. If using woven Pellon interfacing, often the interfacing piece will shrink, thus the starting at the middle and working out. It's always best if the interfacing has some sort of stitching on the edges like when it's in a collar or a facing has the edges finished. The lightweight (not really fabric) Pellon tends to unstick especially after multiple washings.

Edit: Also, yes to the lemon blouse and teens separates idea.

[totchipanda]

Oooh i will have to try that, thats one trick i haven't used yet. Ill hope you forgive me fpr saying that im not hopeful bc... my track record has not been good lol

Right?? They're really so classic and its all in the styling!

[marianme]

Might have better luck using iron on glue like Stitch Witchery to fuze two fabrics together. Although, that really can end up a gluey mess

[totchipanda]

I think I'd rather sew in lol. Clearly more experimentation is required! Science!

[atherleisure]

And that's why I gave up on fusible interface and just buy sew-in any more. (I'll grant I'm still working my way through a stash of fusible that's something like a decade or more old, but anything I really care about gets the sew-in.)

Glad the new job is going well and love the 1910's blouses idea. I do feel there's a fair bit in the 1910's that isn't fashionable at present but wouldn't be weird to wear in modern life. I've been looking at late 1910's cardigan patterns lately for modern wear.

[totchipanda]

That might be the best solution, really. We got by for SO VERY LONG without fusibles, we can do it again.

I am also looking at 1910s cardigans, they really would fit right in to current fashion trends. One really can't go wrong with a skirt and blouse and cardigan combo :D