I am making a pants and tunic outfit for my sister. She works in home care, wearing a lab coat over her regular clothing. I have a dark brown stretch cotton (fairly heavy) and want to attach some beautiful beads- on-a-ribbon trim. Beads are about 2" long from a narrow ribbon.
Here's the rub. How do I get it to lay fairly flat around the neckline? Tiny tucks?? Machine easing on the top of the ribbon?? The rest of the trim is pretty straight lines except from the shoulder seam to the neckline slit. I want to put this on by machine......would love to do a faggoting machine stitch with a bit of Gutterman metallic (brown or a subtle brass shade)..........but the zipper foot gets in the way, and any kind of regular foot is going to ride up on the beading attachments and distort things pretty badly I think.
Have you ever done this?? If you have a good idea please post it!! Many thanks.
Pat in Arkansas