Pad stitching is one of my favourite parts of hand-tailoring! I find all the little hand stitches very relaxing and I love to see the shape of the collar change as I work in it. For those of you unfamiliar to pad stitching it's basically a way to help your collar keep it's shape beautifully through lots of tiny hand stitches and steaming. Gertie shows us how to pad stich in this fancy tutorial, check it out, she explains the whole things much better than I ever could!
Here are a few shots of my newly pad stitched under collar, I love it so much, all the stitches make me happy!
And here you can see the teeny tiny stitches on the stand (the area of the collar below the roll line). These too make me happy :)
I am loving all the hand tailoring I have been able to do on this cape so far, and there is more to come! Next time I tackle something I've never tried before: Welt Pockets!
Bye for now!
Katie xxx
