Good Morning all you internet lovelies.

I decided to make a couple of modifications to see if I could make the tie a little bit more professional looking and to save a little time on manufacture. The first thing I altered was the way the tip was sewn. Looking at Dr J.'s ties I saw that quite a few had machine stitching, on the reverse side, at the tip to make for a neat corner. This seemed easy enough so I folded the material in half and sewed straight across from the point to the raw edge. All good, except that when folded over this gives you a 90 degree angle,which is fine and on checking again with Dr J. ties, half of them have 90 degree angles. But the pattern I have been using has a more acute angle and the seams don't run flat if you sew at 90 degrees. So out with the protractor. The pattern turned out not to be too accurate which is fine as everything is hand sewn so you can allow an 'ease' to make things fit.


Take away the protractor and put a ruler flush with the pins and draw a line on the material and sew along the line.


So next stage was to attach the lining to the ends, and this is where I thought I could also utilise the sewing machine and save a little time.
I lined up the material and lining right side together down one seam, with the seam line on the lining running 5 mm away from the seam line on the main material, so that when turned right way round it would lie away from the edge.



Here's both hand and machined. Since it all on the side that doesn't show, I don't think I really need to worry too much, but if anyone knows a neat way of doing it please let me know. May be it should be done before sewing the centre seam, now there's a thought. Well I might have a little play at that later, but that's it for the time being, more next week, as we get into single figures (weeks) before the wedding, still not panicking... yet.
Hugs and Kisses
Ally
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