Sewing hang-ups

How do you get over a hang-up over a part of sewing you don't particularly like much, say fusing interfacing for example?

I now know why DS's trousers have been sitting around cut out for nearly two months.....

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melinda
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I play an interesting radio program or movie to get me through it while keeping something else going in the background of my brain.

Of course, this means that I need to be EXTRA careful that I don't mess up, because my detested task is making buttonholes.

For fusing interfacing, you can also set up a tabletop ironing board and do one piece a day until it is done.

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Samantha Hill - remove TRASH t

I only had 5 small pieces to do! Unfortunately there is no spare table top surface to set up an ironong board on, we a dining table, my sewing table, which is also machine storage space, and a table/ desk for a computer. I like listening to music while I sew, but it didn't seem to help today. I just had to make myself go do it.

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melinda

My study has the computer set up in one corner, and the long work/sewing table down one wall opposite. I also have a decent wheeled executive type of chair. The floor is ceramic tiles.

Whenever I get to fiddly stuff or bits I don't particularly enjoy, it's quick and easy to scoot across the study from work table to computer to take a break for a few minutes, then return for a few minutes more of whatever it is that's irritating me.

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The Wanderer

99% of zips don't bother me... But WHY do I have to LOOK UP men's fly zips every damned time! I just have a mental block about that fly shield. Gngngngngngng!
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Kate XXXXXX

I treat them as I would any other difficult task. I attack them when I have the time to do it properly and have no distractions otherwise I put them off. I then have some sort of reward lined up for after - reading, watching something I've recorded on tv, a cup of tea, whatever. That way there is something to look forward to when it's done. I used that approach with exams at school and uni and it got me through that!

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Viviane

I have that problem with zippers -- so I try to pretend every time is the very first time I'm putting one in.

-Irene

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IMS

I think the other part of the problem is that I've made this pattern before in shorts form, I want to do something new mainly to combat a slight boredom with sewing for DS. Not that he doesn't appreciate the clothes I make him just that making small clothes (not that he's small) is getting stale, that and that these are corduroy trousers. After overlocking some fabric to wash, veleveteen in red and black & red lining fabric, I've been sneezing black fluff, so I vacuumed out the overlocker! :-)

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melinda

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Sandra Bodycoat

That has always been my problem, with skirts, so I searched the internet and found quiet a few sites to draft my own, I also bought a book called "Sew What- Skirts" Then you have a patterns to your measurements. It's a lot faster than altering and the results are better. Just google How to draft a skirt pattern, Here's one to start you.

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are others you might prefer.Juno

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Juno

Same here...that's why I'm thinking of getting a dress form :)

-Irene

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IMS

If it's because there's a task I can't do very well, I use the immersion method, immersing myself in the task, trying out various methods and practicing on muslins or the like until I can do it perfectly and it does not trouble me any more.

If it is something I just don't like doing, I've sometimes used the assembly line method, doing four or five at one time, cutting them all out at once (in layers w/rotary, no plaids lol), marking all at once (w/snips), and sewing the various units in assembly line fashion. Of course this is only appropriate for some things.

Phae

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Phaedrine Stonebridge

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