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highlyeccentricI have:
1. Located a face mask pattern I want to use: here.
2. Adjusted my screen resolution and traced the mask pattern from screen to grid paper.
3. Read the instructions, which are... not the most concise instructions I have ever read.
4. Identified where the pattern designer made it unnecessarily complicated (why have a true seam down the middle, when you could cut on the fold? I'll iron a crease and topstitch down the crease, for the look/structure of it - maybe just on the outside, so I can't feel a seam on my nose).
5. Identified a better way to do the elastic.
6. Got an old tote bag for the inner lining - one side of it is JUST big enough, and the other, with the conference logo, I'll put aside for making some kind of patch out of - and cut along its seams.
7. Got an old pillowcase (an outrageous red satin thing I've had since undergrad) and cut IT into two pieces, from which to cut the outer side.
8. Cut out the paper pattern.
These are all the actions of someone who knows what they're doing, and not the actions of the sort of muppet who has owned a sewing machine for ten days but hasn't taken it out of the box because they are Unworthy Of It.
This someone who knows what they are doing would, of course, get out the machine, and thread it, and sew some test seams on something (maybe old hankies?) in a calm and measured fashion, then sew the inner layer (because it's an easier fabric), then the outer, all very sensibly. This someone might do that... another day.
1. Located a face mask pattern I want to use: here.
2. Adjusted my screen resolution and traced the mask pattern from screen to grid paper.
3. Read the instructions, which are... not the most concise instructions I have ever read.
4. Identified where the pattern designer made it unnecessarily complicated (why have a true seam down the middle, when you could cut on the fold? I'll iron a crease and topstitch down the crease, for the look/structure of it - maybe just on the outside, so I can't feel a seam on my nose).
5. Identified a better way to do the elastic.
6. Got an old tote bag for the inner lining - one side of it is JUST big enough, and the other, with the conference logo, I'll put aside for making some kind of patch out of - and cut along its seams.
7. Got an old pillowcase (an outrageous red satin thing I've had since undergrad) and cut IT into two pieces, from which to cut the outer side.
8. Cut out the paper pattern.
These are all the actions of someone who knows what they're doing, and not the actions of the sort of muppet who has owned a sewing machine for ten days but hasn't taken it out of the box because they are Unworthy Of It.
This someone who knows what they are doing would, of course, get out the machine, and thread it, and sew some test seams on something (maybe old hankies?) in a calm and measured fashion, then sew the inner layer (because it's an easier fabric), then the outer, all very sensibly. This someone might do that... another day.
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Date: 2020-04-26 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-27 05:58 am (UTC)happy masking!
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Date: 2020-04-27 10:46 am (UTC)This is where we see that my conceptual understanding of sewing is superior to my grasp of basic geometry...
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Date: 2020-04-28 11:02 pm (UTC)