siorai

unfortunately my camera ran out of battery today :( so i couldn't take any photos.

i'll give you the downlow on all that happe

ned today..

I arrived at uni at 10am with my swimsuit in hand.. ready to get four simple jobs done

1. bind all edges

2. attatch QUT logo

3. unpick blue and red stitches (staystitching which is was still visible)

4. hand sew where stitching has come undone

10 hours later and i had

1.bound all edges

2.forgotten to attatch the qut logo

3.unpicked all visible staystitches

4. not yet done the handsewing..

i have spent a ridiculous amount of time sewing this swimsuit

last night i had elasticated all edges using regular overlocking but once bound you could see some of the elastic overlocking stitches coming out from under the binding.

i re-elasticated all edges with a 3 thread overlocker and then trim

med excess elastic away before binding.

I spent ages trying to get binding right as i spent so long on the fabric manipulaton and i thought it would be a pity to let it down with horrible binding!

the swimsuit is nearly finished apart from the qut logo

being attached and the hand stitching.

I'm really happy with how it has turned out

the lovely kate mackenzie wearing toile number 4