Friday 2 November 2012

A Cape Adventure #3 - Pad Stitching the Collar


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

7 comments:

Tasha @ By gum, by golly! said...

Aha, that's the collar! I've been so behind. lol I'm really impressed. I don't think I could ever tackle a coat (or a cape, which is kind of coat-like)!

Irene said...

But why would one want to pad stitch a collar? I always found that interfacing (not the super thin one for button holes, but the average thick one) is more than enough for my collar to stand nicely. Especially then the fabric is wool and thicker. Doesn't your collar in this case stay really stiff and isn't it too thick in comparison to the rest of the coat?

misskatiered said...

Hi Irene! I just prefer the look that pad stitching gives, the horsehair canvas I use for it is not that thick at all so it doesn't make the under collar much thicker than the other parts of the coat. I find that pad stitching keep the shape of the collar much better than just interfacing alone too, yet it still has enough movement and isn't too stiff. But I suppose it's just personal preference!

Alice Wang said...

Aw I feel so privileged to have had a preview of your wonderful outfit today. It was lovely meeting you today - you are one stylish lady! X

misskatiered said...

Thanks Alice! It was so lovely to meet you too :) xx

Irene said...

Ah, cool, thanks for the tipp! :)

House of pinheiro said...

I loved meeting you and checking your beautiful cape live... X

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