I am not an absolute perfectionist. I try to apply a motto to my life of aiming for 100% but being satisfied with 70-80% in results. I have even stopped correcting other people's spelling and grammar. A bit.
When I am sewing, I do try to do the best job possible. I will take shortcuts and cheat a little if I can get away with it, but I do like to make sure I have cut correctly. This man's top I am working on is from a piece of fabric bought on Ebay - an odd-shaped remnant, but large enough for the task. Well, large enough if I had cut everything correctly.
I pre-washed the fabric, as one should, especially with knit fabrics. I hung it on the clothesline, which caused a bit of a line mark across it, so I placed the pattern pieces carefully to avoid having this mark show.
I had just cut out the two sleeves and was marking the centre top of them with pins, only to find that I had not placed the pattern quite as carefully as I thought. Some remnants of knit fabric have overlock stitching towards the end of the roll - this one had that stitching right at the top of one sleeve.
It's ok, I thought, I'll change the shoulder shape a little. I cut the shoulder of both sleeves to match, trimming off the unsightly stitching. Then I saw it. About 7cm from the top of one sleeve were two rectangular marks resembling sticky tape stains. I haven't worked in the industry, so I don't know what causes these horrors, but horrors they are, and I do not have enough fabric left over to re-cut the sleeve.
Right now, that piece is soaking, having been scrubbed with eucalyptus oil and soap.
Please pray for me.
The eucalyptus oil did the trick. Fabric salvaged, top being worn by happy husband.
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