Todays List Of Stuff To Do...

[katexxxxxx]

Mostly sewing.

• Put 8 eyelets into my black bodice
• Put 8 eyelets into my silver bodice
• Make J's linen petticoat
• Complete my black petticoat if possible
• Complete making the panes for the slashed doublet body

Comments

[virginiadear]

Ooh...I need a sewing day like this of yours, where the tasks to be done get mapped out and---wait for it---are actually performed!

Will you be doing those eyelets by hand? By grommet press? By machine? There is the NIFTIEST attachment for those of us whose machines do not make round buttonholes or eyelets, which allows us to machine-sew round eyelets.
I've been longing for one, but.... Always I can think of better ways to spend the money (not a lot of money; still, I can always think of better ways to spend it) because generally when I'm using eyelets they're going into some historical piece and some lizard-y portion of my brain commandeers all the other parts or holds them incommunicado, or some such, puts its own self on autopilot and the next thing you know, I'm hand-stitching eyelets, anyway.

[katexxxxxx]

I arr Queen of Machine Stitched Eyelets! I have one of these Bernina kits for my 1005: http://www.bernina.com/en-US/Products-us/BERNINA-products-us/BERNINA-Accessories-us/Special-sewing-accessories-us/Eyelet-embroidery-attachment-82-with-foot-en (The different models each need a different presser foot, and mine isn't quite like the one in the pic). It's a horrid price now. I got mine a few years back as a birthday prezzy, when it was £55. Now goes for round about £100! But worth it. Oh so worth it!

I also have an eyelet plate for my Husqvarna. You can get them for Pfaffs too. Don't know anyone else doing them at present. Right now I have neither the spare fingers or the time to hand stitch them, and since they'll be hidden behind 1" wide ribbon points...

[virginiadear]

"Eyelet plate." H'mm. A template, maybe, is what I'm thinking of. "Fits [name, another name, and a bunch more names and model numbers]" and what it fits are more basic machines such as my workhorse White.
What I recall from having seen this thing once, maybe twice, on-line, is that it is just a template, really, and that it cost, at the time of the last 'sighting,' about US $20.00.

From time to time I'll find myself thinking about that critter. Perhaps I'll try to look it up again. Sometimes, it does seem as if it would be nice to have. Other times---most times---my calmer and saner self says, "You don't want more 'stuff' around the house or in the sewing area, remember. You decided this, and you proclaimed there would be no further accumulating of things. Just making of things."

[ETA]-- Found it, with a notation that this product is not currently available and it is not known when or if it will become available again

[katexxxxxx]

That sounds a lot just for the eyelet plate. The Pfaff ones seem to be about £11 for the set of three in different sizes. Last time I looked the Husqvarna ones were about £7 each. They are tiddly and only take up an inch of space in the machine's gadget box, so no real proliferation of STUFF.

I have to say I would now never buy a machine that I couldn't get an eyelet plate or two for, as I do love them and they make far stronger eyelets than the embroidered pattern type or the buttonhole type.

Where this sort of thing is concerned, I HAVE no calmer, saner self! But I don't need one, as I have a professional use for the things. (Insert smug grin of choice!)

Right, back down the frock mine I go...