Repost Pleater/Hat Covering Info?

[Coffee Em]

Alli, in your, um, copious free time, could you, um, repost your pleater-making tutorial? And PMS, there was a thread over on the TV board about lining hats, and I was desperate to send 'em here, only there was no here here then.

I miss our how-tos! And Gypsy, if you're making a new duct tape dummy soon, you could document and post that... (Yike--do we need a whole Alley corner on How-Tos?)

But this time, I've learned my lesson--I'm copying all the instructions as they're posted!

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Tornado Alli]

I would actually like to start a forum that is nothing but online classes! I will try to get the pleater instructions up soon. I don't know if I kept the written part but I know I have the pictures.

What classes would y'all like to see? So far, I have:

1. Pleater
2. Duck tape Dummy
3. Lining a hat

What else?

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

Piping in seams...very historical and something I still hate to do but is such a fantastic finish

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

Piping in seams...very historical and something I still hate to do but is such a fantastic finish

Funny you should say that, I was thinking of piping my corset that I am working on, then I thought..... :nuhnuh nahhh

[Nellie Blue]

How about a class on covering shoes? I'm going to need to do that really soon...

[Coffee Em]

Does that pic mean that some handsome li'l critter was a naughty, naughty dawg? (Or are you planning to cover those shoes in hide, in which case, wow, that must have been one naughty dawg--and don't tell Winston!)

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Nellie Blue]

No...it represents me begging...and I figured it was the right kind of dog to get to Fannie and Allie's hearts! :lool :lool :lool

[Coffee Em]

Dang, you're smart and sneaky--my favorite!

And have you seen this smilie and its name?
:Nellie

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Nellie Blue]

No I hadn't seen that! It fits me so well! :Nellie Cool, dude! Ya'll haven't seen my shamrock sunglasses, have you! :lool :lool :lool

[Coffee Em]

Shamrocks???? Okay, that's even better than heart-shaped ones.

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Nellie Blue]

I wear the shamrock glasses on my birthday....St Patricks Day! :re

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

Piping in corset seams...I bet for an outerware corset it would be beautiful...but would the piping stand out agienst a bodice? Hmmm....intresting thought....

I tend to cheat and use the ready made piping but sometimes you just have to make your own for special fabrics...

[Coffee Em]

I made my own when I reupholstered a stool. It looks good, but mostly IT JUST MAKES YOU FEEL SO SMUG! Every time I looked at that stool, I thought, Yeah, that was me, I did that. Heh.

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Clancy]

I have piped armholes before. It really isnt that hard to do, but it does look really effective, specially when you can buy all thicknesses of piping cord,so you could really make quite a heavy one in a contrast fabric.

This is the one i did..

[Clancy]

And the cuff, you you can see it a little bit..

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

Excelent Clancy...but I am still with Em...if I take the time to fool with it...the result is always SMUG! maybe that why Civil war reenactors are "rules" oriented? They pipe too many seams!?!>! :ruff

[Coffee Em]

Oooooh, purty--geez, now I want to do that on a modern blouse. (And who has time to sew for the 21st century?)

Cheers,
Coffee Em