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I normally lurk on RCTQ but I do have a sewing question that I hope someone can help with.

I made a bunch of flags for my daughter's high school colorguard unit. The instructor purchased suit lining. Very thin and flimsy if you ask me. But that's what he wanted, so off I went into making them. These are just practice flags. So all I did was serge around the edges and then made a sleeve area for the pole to slide through. Did a double stitch where I flipped over the sleeve. Well it was brought to my attention tonight that some of the flags are tearing.

Any idea on how I can reinforce the sleeve section?

Thanks in advance.

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Cindy Schmidt
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Hi Kate:

Unfortuantely he didn't think of that before hand and there isn't any extra money to get the right fabric now. So that's why I was wondering if there was something I could "mend" them with. They look like crap and I feel like I wasted a whole bunch of time doing these

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Cindy Schmidt

Hi there, Cindy! :)

Not on lining fabric. It just isn't man enough for that kind of job, even for practice flags. Once it starts tearing, you need to start again. As they are used for practices and rehearsals, I'd suggest light weight rip-stop nylon. This can take the strain of practice, then they can use posh ones for the real event. :)

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Kate Dicey

Sadly, there probably isn't anything you can do at this point except chalk it up to experience. This sort of thing has happened to most of us at some point in our various careers, which is why we may seem positively shrill in our refusal to work on fabric until we have approved it.

He bought the fabric without checking with other people, let him carry the blame.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

Yeah I know but I feel so totally awful about it. It looks like shoddy workmanship on my part.

Reply to
Cindy Schmidt

No, it looks like cheap sh*t fabric that is shredding because it's being used for something it was never intended. It in NO way reflects on your workmanship. If they are only for practice I'd suggest running some duct tape down the shredding seam. It will only be a matter of time until it starts to fray around the serged edges, too. You can find duct tape now that comes in many different colors. Unfortunately the more you mend this the more it will fray and you'll end up with a postage stamp sized flag. Maybe you can find tape in a contrasting school color and it will look like it was all part of the master plan.

Val

Val

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Val

Val:

Well the funny thing about that is - he didn't choose school colors - he used a flourescent orange. Her school colors are blue and silver. He wanted it to be visual out on the field when they are working so he can see who is doing what.

Go figure...

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Cindy Schmidt

I don't know if this is a reasonable thing to suggest, but: can you open the sleeves and apply a stout fusible interfacing? If you try this, I'd suggest *woven* rather than pellon type. But I don't think I'd offer to do a fix for *free* either, at the very least make him pay for the materials. As others have said, let him live with *his* mistake.

Beverly ..."fluorescent orange" lining??? What were they thinkin'

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