I spent last Saturday making the facing for See. I merrily cut strips (straight of grain), pressed hems and sewed. The whole process was going so well!
I put all the facing strips on to the piece and was about to press them all to the other side, when I realized, as you can see from the photo, that I had sewed them to the wrong side.
Sigh.
I ripped out all of the stitching, which wasn’t hard, but, apparently, required lots of sighing. What an idiot. Finally, I was done and sewed all the pieces to the front. I made a few adjustments that I was only able to do because I had noticed them while I was ripping.
The photo shows the facing before I pressed it to the back. Hopefully you can see two important things:
- the sides of the facing do not go all the way to the edge of the side – this is to minimize bulk in the corners
- the sides of the facing are on top – this is so that the top and bottom facing strips can encase the side strips and make a nice finished edge.
After I pressed the facing to the correct side (front to back), I made a tiny sleeve. I have been stitching away on the facing while watching TV. I have all but a few inches of the facing sewn on. The sleeve comes next. I hope to finish soon.
Previous Posts
- July 27, 2014 – More Progress on See
- July 22, 2014 – See Progress
- April 16, 2014 – See – Details
- April 13, 2014 – See
- April 13, 2014 – See – Faster Than I Thought
Hehe, I think we’ve all done that at least once….and in my case, maybe a few more times.
At least it wasn’t king sized!
It happens to me almost every time I want to make machine binding. I’m so used to sew binding to the front, then fold to the back, I’m constantly sewing it on the wrong side. Glad you could fix it though!
I don’t do many machine bindings, so it is very odd that I would even consider sewing a binding (facing) to the back. I was admiring my machine quilting, so that was probably the reason. What do they say? Pride goeth before the fall? 😉
See makes me think of you skateboarding as a girl!
??? Really? I hope that means you like it!
Sigh, yes, I do that also, (sigh and sew to the wrong side). I like your idea of not going to the end.
Reduces bulk with a facing, but won’t work on a regular binding.