sueded polyester - raveliness

Nope. It will melt way more than you want it to.

It's gonna be tough to get that much thickness felled. A mock felled seam might work better.

The flannel would ravel out from the seams if you trim it too much.

That might work. That would look better than trying to do an actual felled seam. Do you have a pair of pinking shears? Pinking the edges might help too. Then do the mock felled seam.

I totally understand that. My sewing room now is 8'x8'. And keep in mind there's 6 machines in there. One of them an industrial straight stitch that takes up a lot of room. (I love it though and would not be without it even to gain that much more room!) So I know all about keeping things tidy, or as tidy as possible. We won't talk about the state of the room right now.

LOL 'Round here, I demand folks clean their own. I'll cook it if you kill it. But it better then come to me in clean white freezer paper the very least. mmmmm Deer season coming up soon. Venison....mmmmmmmm ;)

Sharon

So, uh, you won't take anything with...uh...a bruise that says something like "FORD" but reversed, and, uh, might not need tenderizing?

No - you'll melt too much of it and the edges will go crispy!

Why not just do a flat seam and line it with the flannel?

No = Flannel also ravels like the dickens...

I think that might be too stiff and lumpy: but test it. I usually use a three-step zigzag... Sew the seams with the fabric together, and over sew with the 3 step zz, sewing all 4 layers together. Then fold to the back of the garment, press carefully, and top stitch the distance you like from the seam line for your mock felled look.

Gorilla man scrapes knuckles on pavement... ;)

Ugh, no pavement, like rock, me want to rock.

Yum!

Here you are not allowed to run things down and pick them up, but a car following the one that kills the hare/pheasant/deer may... So hunt in pairs in England! ;)

A partridge in a pair treed.

Dear Duh,

If the stuff ravels that much, a flat felled seam would be disastrous. Use your flannel as an underlining. Sew regular 5/8-inch seams. Trim to 3/8. Then, press the seam all to one side, and do two rows of stitching on the outside; one right next to the seam, the other 1/4 inch away from the seam--a faux, but sturdy, flat fell seam, with the added confidence of no ravelling.

Teri

P.S. Partridge in a pair treed? Priceless!!!!!

Don't encourage me. It just gets worse.

There are at least two oxymorons in that sentence.

I remember, in Louisiana where I'm from, seeing an old gent pull his car over to the side of the road, walk to the middle of the road to, I guess, test the limberness of a large furry thing there, and, satisfied with that, toss it into his trunk.

Another time I had some raccoon stew at an old Cajun's service station, next door to one of our businesses. That had to be THE GAMIEST meat I've ever had. He had a hot plate made out of an old tire rim, a steel plate, and some steel rod legs, to which he attached a propane burner.

The shrimp balls I had there another time were much more palatable.

When I used to work in the ship yards down there, when it was raining too hard to work, these guys would be taking scrap iron and making crab boilers. It was a way of life.

Ok, I've just got to work with this.

Upscale Roadkill: Llama? Ostrich? Shar Pei?

Upscale Redneck: Nah, too easy.

Redneck Roadkill: Can't tell if that's redundant or not.

The pheasants are revolting...

Resistance is feudal.

Pheasants who live under glass shouldn't grow bones?

I told you it gets worse.

Multiple snipping:

Well, we have a few people with gorilla arms in my household!! [But they don't get them too scraped up.] Hubby, DD, and DS - I guess that's everyone but me.

You probably know that a person's armspan usually is +- 2" of their height. Well, we're keeping the gorilla arm genes active in the gene pool! DH's arms are ~ 5" longer, DD and DS about 3". They are very handy creatures to have around the house [for getting things from the top shelf].

Oh, and they have other charming qualities as well! [after all, they put up with me LOL] Sheila in Canada

Taunto wrote in news:451ed05b$0$34579 $ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net:

incorrigable punster. do not incorrage :) lee

My dad was the same shape as your lot. He was 5'10". He always said he was a 6'3" bloke on a 5'2" bloke's legs! 17 and a half collar, 42" chest, 36" waist...

My dad was 6'5". 350#. My mom was 5'3", 105#. I believe a shoehorn figured into my conception. I sort of got averaged in the middle somewhere, but not quite right. My torso is long for my body, but I've got lower body musculature that is a lot stronger proportionally than the rest of me. My dad was known for some "legendary" feats of strength in his younger days. Like taking a 16 penny nail (big around as a pencil), and bending it into a staple.

When I was 16, weighing 140#, I could dead-lift 325# and squat 300#. I could only bench press 165#. I did a lot of strenous farm work back then. I'd kill myself if I tried something like that now. So I got something through the deal, but not enough to whup up on my domineering

From talking to my half-brother, seems like long torsos run in the family. As does anxiety, and speaking your mind regardless of the consequences. The two are linked in my estimation.

And what the hell does this have to do with sewing. I wore one of my shirts to work today. Not a great shirt, but the topic came up several times because I work part-time in an outdoor equipment retail store, and I just made a backpack. People are always impressed that a guy can make a shirt.

If you were a sewing machine, you could lift your foot and relieve your tension.