Experimenting and Problems...

This is my experimenting on the binding machine with the brown jersey which was a bit thicker than the black wool jersey

I first experienced problems with the binding machine. After I decided on what size I wanted the eyelets to be I had to make the binding the right width so they would fit nicely. I had problems with the binding not catching on the underneath side of the garment.

I felt I had fixed the problem but when I did a sample on the black fabric it was not fixed. The black wool jersey was finer and had more stretch than the brown fabric we were using for experimenting so it wasn’t catching in right on the underneath side.

I had to do many experiments with the binding against plain fabric and also with the rouching.

I wasn’t sure if the eyelets were going to go through the thickness of the binding and rouching so I had to experiment with that also. The eyelets were sometimes pulling away from the fabric but all in all it seemed to work out fine.

When first attaching the eyelets I accidentally pierced the stitch line when piercing the hole which meant the overlocking stitch on the back would start to unravel. This was a good thing to learn to know not to make this mistake on the final.

The eyelets in the black binding.