Greetings dear community, happy NeedleWorkMonday, although the reasons for my publication today is not something to celebrate I am happy to be able to vent with you, a few days ago my sister brought her dress so that I could make some modifications, the first was to cut the dress to make it a little shorter, she also asked me to make the dress wider straps with the fabric, she was chosen as the promotion godmother of the school where she works and she told me that she wanted to wear that dress because she has only worn it once and was not satisfied with those details.
Today I cut a few centimeters off the dress and I immediately noticed that this is a very delicate fabric, I don't know the specific name of the fabric because as you know I'm just a hobbyist, however, to avoid any problems as always I secured the edge with pins .
When I went to use the sewing machine my suffering immediately began, as you know on past occasions my machine has always had problems and the last time the technician repaired it it was very difficult to adjust the tension of the thread, I was surprised to see that again the machine presents the same faults that it had had since new, that is, it sews a few centimeters well and a few centimeters incorrectly consecutively and there is no way that I can repair it, the technician told me that time not to move the tension lever but I even without moving it, the machine returns to the same, I feel completely defeated and I think that the only solution is to sell the machine and get rid of that stress. I had to undo the stitching in great fear that the fabric would be damaged.
I had no choice but to sew by hand, as in previous times, my sewing stitches did not come out so straight because it is a very difficult fabric, even holes open easily and it frays, so I had to make a slightly wide stitch to my taste and also not to tighten the fabric so much because it crumples.
I did not comply with my sister, I did not make the wide straps to the dress because doing it by hand would make the seam very noticeable, so I feel very dissatisfied with the situation, I do not know if my sister is willing to use said dress again with that hand stitched edge 😔
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