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So, I'm working on this sewing project. And it's turned out to be harder than I anticipated. I'm on the home stretch of it being complete, but due to a few things (a badly marked package, mainly, I think- in no one's universe is someone nearly five nine, 135 lbs and lanky as I am "petite" but that's what the pattern turned out to be and because of my measurements and height apparently the closest size is a twelve which I've never ever been), the strange concept of "ease", and the fact that I'm using really tricky fabric for a purpose it doesn't seem to be intended for, well, it looks a little weird. Mainly, the collar is way too big for my skinny little neck. It looks okay, but really not what I want.
(For those who want a better mental picture of this, it's an asymmetrical mandarin-collared shirt that I decided to make out of pretty-but-annoying thin and shiny slidey kinda see-through meshy fabric. Which also means the interfacings show through and also look weirder than I thought they might.)
Because I'm sick of my sewing being "close enough", I'm really wanting to take it apart and do it over and try to fix it. But because of all the weird little pieces, interfacings, collar, and the fact that it was necessary to trim seams, it might be almost impossible, and even if it worked it would take a Really Long Time. I'd just re-do it if I had more fabric, but I don't, and I don't know if I can get more. I have to either finish it and learn to love it how it is, or I have to really painstakingly take it all apart, hope to modify it to make it fit better, and re-do it. Making the collar smaller means making the pieces the collar attaches to smaller as well, which is basically the entire thing. And if I don't like the interfacing, I just want to take it out completely, but them it doesn't keep its shape as well and might be fucktastic too. Hrm.
So, I'm not *really* frustrated, 'cause I feel like I've done a good job on it and everything, I just don't know if it's worth it. Alternately, I might just make something simpler out of the pieces and know better next time. But then I don't get the cool shirt that my mind got set on having. Poop, I say, POOOOOOOP!
Okay sewing friends, what's your advice?
(For those who want a better mental picture of this, it's an asymmetrical mandarin-collared shirt that I decided to make out of pretty-but-annoying thin and shiny slidey kinda see-through meshy fabric. Which also means the interfacings show through and also look weirder than I thought they might.)
Because I'm sick of my sewing being "close enough", I'm really wanting to take it apart and do it over and try to fix it. But because of all the weird little pieces, interfacings, collar, and the fact that it was necessary to trim seams, it might be almost impossible, and even if it worked it would take a Really Long Time. I'd just re-do it if I had more fabric, but I don't, and I don't know if I can get more. I have to either finish it and learn to love it how it is, or I have to really painstakingly take it all apart, hope to modify it to make it fit better, and re-do it. Making the collar smaller means making the pieces the collar attaches to smaller as well, which is basically the entire thing. And if I don't like the interfacing, I just want to take it out completely, but them it doesn't keep its shape as well and might be fucktastic too. Hrm.
So, I'm not *really* frustrated, 'cause I feel like I've done a good job on it and everything, I just don't know if it's worth it. Alternately, I might just make something simpler out of the pieces and know better next time. But then I don't get the cool shirt that my mind got set on having. Poop, I say, POOOOOOOP!
Okay sewing friends, what's your advice?
