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A free drink from any XMarker she meets?...
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You can count me in on that one!!

I knew I liked you guys for a reason! That's two drinks...Next! That reminds me of a redhead joke...maybe another time. I have more pictures-remember I said I would post the set-backs as well as progress? Well, here goes.

Sewing up the inner edges of the pleats


A close up of the pleats-it's hard to see well, the line of stitching


This shows the difference between the sewn pleats and those that are not-note how the pleats on the right lay flat and the others kind of stick out


Sewing down the pleats-starting from the waist line and proceeding down-don't do it this way!


Because if you do it this way, the pattern does not quite line up-partly because of how the foot of the sewing machine pushes the fabric-this picture does not show it well-it was much more glaring "in person". Also, when I tried it against Sinbad, it turned out I had sewn down too far anyway


So, here I am ripping out the sewn down pleats. Next time I will sew from the bottom up, more slowly, and possibly by hand-tomorrow, though, not today


So, how about those drinks?

Be well,