Thursday, July 30, 2020

More Smock Repair

Faire would be starting this weekend, so I did some much-neglected repair work on my other smock (removing the sleeves and felling the raw side seams). While I don't find felling the interior seams necessary to comfort (the usual reason I hear for doing so), linen just tends to ravel along the cut edges over time. At one point I overcast much of these seam allowances (which did keep things together), but when a hole recently developed along one underarm gusset, it was time to secure everything more permanently and neatly.


Close up of a white linen smock showing the felled interior seams.
Not much to look at, but still feeling accomplished
(= a good 90" of running and felling).

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