so my order from Spandex World arrived yesterday (a day early, whee!) so I started making the official B team helmet covers (green covers with white stars and stripes).
The pattern is very basic - two curved sides and then a panel in the middle. (This is for the jammer cover. The panel in the middle is too wide to be a pivot cover.) The hardest part is pinning them together - a straight line pinned to a curve takes approximately eleventy billion pins.
Anyway, I got the first seam done, and it looked beautiful. I go to do the second seam, stop paying attention for a second, and the fabric gets all bunched up under the needles. On a serger, which also cuts the excess fabric as you go, that's fatal.
So, I had to start from scratch. Phooey.
But I finished one helmet cover (except for the stars) and it looks awesome, if I do say so myself. The seams are nice and flat, it covers the helmet well. I will probably do the "stars on both sides of the cover so if it gets turned inside out you won't get penalized" thing.
No comments:
Post a Comment