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May 29, 2013. Alterations, Freya Deco
OMG I´m exhausted!! I just finished altering down a Freya Deco band and that was no doubt The Most Difficult alteration ever!!
First, the stitches were really hard to take off. I do have a seam ripper but still! It was very well sewn, very sturdy stitches. I have not seen anything like this EVER and I have altered bands my whole life... Usually I just take the hook and the eye parts off, cut the band to desired length, and sew the parts in again. If the band is broader than the hook/eye-parts, I have just folded the band in a couple of places and stuffed it in...
This time I did it properly, like this:
http://dressingcurves.blogspot.fi/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00%2B01:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00%2B01:00&max-results=5
It was a lot of work, and I had some troubles because the hook part hardly fit under the foot of the sewing machine! If I had used the zipper foot, I wouldn´t have been able to use the wide zigzag stitch... And the thread got knotted so many times, I guess it was because of too thick parts to sew. Oh boy. It took me hours!!! But: now I have a red Deco in 28F
ETA. I forgot to tell the starting size, it was 32DD.
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I just altered down a way stretched out deco. It's a 28FF, was stretching to almost 31"! I barely cut ANYTHING off the band(about 1cm on each side)... but now it stretches to 27"! Apparently ~2cm makes a huge difference!
I agree, the stitches were annoying to take out. I do have a seam ripper but the stitches down the side are intense!
As to the hooks, in general I never use the full width of the zig-zag stitch there, and I rarely, if ever see a bra which has the full width there either. I think you can safely try it with the zipper foot on, or if you have that option, move the needle position to the side.
And, well done! :)
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