EDIT: Was supposed to be lamé for the title, but apparently, the é was not acceptable... go figure. So, you're stuck with the title of "LAME trim".
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Okay, here is another one of those "hey, I'm doing this right now, I wonder if anyone is interested in this being a tutorial? I mind-as-well take pictures just in case it helps."
Working with lamé trim can be a pain, but not impossible. Just remember, the larger the size of the piece you're working with (i.e. trim versus a skirt), the more wrinkled it will get, and the easier it will be to screw it up.
I personally don't like lamé except under certain circumstances - I love it as trim, so long as it behaves. There are many other alternatives out there, though, so I suggest that if lamé is giving you a hard time, look around and see what else there is that is shiny
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I still think I get too wordy with tutorials, but ah well. You'll have to deal with it
Please forgive the horrible, horrible drawings, too. I can't help it - I only have a touch-pad to draw with at the moment, and there is so very little you can do with them...
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Okay, here is another one of those "hey, I'm doing this right now, I wonder if anyone is interested in this being a tutorial? I mind-as-well take pictures just in case it helps."
Working with lamé trim can be a pain, but not impossible. Just remember, the larger the size of the piece you're working with (i.e. trim versus a skirt), the more wrinkled it will get, and the easier it will be to screw it up.
I personally don't like lamé except under certain circumstances - I love it as trim, so long as it behaves. There are many other alternatives out there, though, so I suggest that if lamé is giving you a hard time, look around and see what else there is that is shiny
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I still think I get too wordy with tutorials, but ah well. You'll have to deal with it
Please forgive the horrible, horrible drawings, too. I can't help it - I only have a touch-pad to draw with at the moment, and there is so very little you can do with them...
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I never really had a lot of success with stretch needles, but I may give them a go again, thank you for the tip!
Please keep up the "oh I just thought I'd take pics while I'm making this" tutorials! They are so helpful!
And I don't think they're too wordy - I think they're hilarious, actually!
p.s. I found you through ACParadise. I was thinking of suggesting a "tutorials" section for their forums, what do you think?
I'll definitely keep up with those! I have a couple more on my hard drive now, and I'm hoping to get them up soon, too
Ah! I haven't been on the ACP forums for ... ever, it seems! It's just so hard to keep up with all of them (and, it seems cosplay forums tend to breed drama, so I avoid that when I can
Lame is another enemy. A zipper in lame...now there's a nightmare for ya.
In the UK and France there's a great alternative to lame (I don't know how to create the accent without digging out my ascii codes
I've used it for some things - it has different properties and different applications but for shiny shiny trim it's fab!
And I found the only way to sew it onto something nicely is by hand - no topstitching XP
Just go to the appropriate page on the wiki, click the "edit" button at the bottom of the page, enter the link to the tutorial in the same way as the other links, and save the result...
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I can only sew skirts.. lol. not that i wear them though. (i mean like, i will wear one if i am a sisseh) Pants r my best frens... xD
say, i'll just put this tutorial to good use. Then i can sew a better costume! ^o^ Yeahhaa!
Hehe, I love skirts
...Well, to me at least.
It was not a happy day yesterday...or the day before, I can't remember which...
Stuff like this will be really helpful if/when I ever start sewing anything beyond blankets (I love blankets so much though.. o.o; )
And when it's windy, it gets colder IN my room than it is outside... I'm not sure how that works...
Glasses break in my room when it gets that cold in the winter though... o.o;;
So what do I do? I put my bed with the long side up against the coldest wall in here because it's the most convenient for where I have to put my tv... which I never watch... o.o;
I think it's mostly to remind me to never let it get nearly that bad again... I don't want to let it get as bad as it is now again, either o.o;;
And it smells horrible when you melt it
xD Now I wonder where my iron has run off to this time.
A "lame" trim... lol! I admit at first ir made me rise my brow and wonder...