[Namron] I made a TUNIC but
Jim L Couch
jimcouch at gmail.com
Fri May 20 02:33:43 PDT 2005
Aelesia
Nope, you are not to late. Cant get ahold of my sister to use her
machine and too much a skeerdy cat to try it by hand. LOL I REALLY
like the idea of putting the material underneath. I think I have
enough that I can try it out, and if I dont like it I can always go
the other way. I am not sure about using the darker on the sleeves
only because they are fairly short sleeves, but I am going to use it
at the bottom of the tunic.
Thanks
Jim
On 5/19/05, BardessOfTheSted at aol.com <BardessOfTheSted at aol.com> wrote:
> Well.. Bought some material. Linen. About 3 yards each of two different
> colors. So, I washed it, dried it, and laid it out. Made my pattern.. Cut
> it and looked great. Until I unfolded it and noticed that I made my neck
> hole about two times to big. Is it possible for me to use the other
> material (its darker so it looks good on top of the lighter one I made the
> tunic with) and cut out kind of a rectangle with a proper size neck hole.
> Then sew it on top of the tunic (with the large neck)? I was thinking that
> this would make the neck smaller and at the same time give the tunic more
> than one color. Also, I could use some of the darker fabric for trim on the
> bottom.
>
> Is this a good idea or should I pretty much just count the first one as a
> huge lesson and move on to cutting out the second?
>
> Thanks
> Jim
>
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> Something I would personally think about (and I might be a little too late
> for this) Is instead of layering the other color on top of the tunic,
> placing it underneath with the existing neckline showing. Give it a neat
> little flair, and less like a mistake.
>
> Also, since you're using two different colors of fabric, you might make a
> long strip of fabric to put around the wrists. Not covering up the seams of
> the wrists, but just a band of the differently colored fabric. (just like
> you were putting trim on the sleeves) This way you're tying in the two
> different colorsin together, so again, it will look like you choose to use
> two different colors, and not just coverering up a mistake.
>
> Hope some of this helps!
> Aelesia
>
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