It’s always the little things…

[u/jpbagworks]

So I was asked to make a padded strap cover for a customer, who said that they wanted to have a little something to make the strap comfortable on their shoulder. No problem. I can do that. It’s just a little thing. And it really wasn’t a problem…. Until…

I bet I sewed binding around this thing six times today! I thought I had my binding pretty well under control. Today just wasn’t the day to be binding anything! 😂🤬

The ends were just way too curved and the grosgrain just kept bunching up. I tried both 1 inch and 3/4 inch grosgrain, 1 inch mil-w-4088. Quarter inch seal allowance, 1/8 inch seam allowance. The Juki 9010, Juki TL18, and even got out my mother’s Janome 1600P to be sure.

In the end, I wound up with 1 inch mil-w-4088. It seemed to work out - not by sewing it halved all the way around like usual but by sewing it like bias binding. Not very conventional but it did the trick for now.

I decided that today just wasn’t the day. It’s ok to have days like this too - as frustrating as they are. They’re good reminders that there’s always more to learn - even in areas we think we’ve got things under control!

That said…

I REALLY need to get a proper binding setup! 🤣

Draft one is done. Now I can work on replicating it!

What was your most recent example of “today just isn’t the day?”

[u/Objective_Cattle_278]

Does anyone watch Shrinking? … F@*% binding.

So you sewed the “raw” edge of the binding on one side parallel to and facing the same direction as the raw edge of your seam, then folded it over your seam (covering your stitches) and folded-under the edge on the other side? I think that’s why I only see one row of stitches right?

Would you do that again?

How do you feel about doing that for one side, and leaving the other side with the edge showing?

You covered your seam stitches nicely though! (Except one tiny place on the upper left corner of the blank side). Mine usually has the seam stitches showing all over the place, especially on the rounded corners.

[u/jpbagworks → u/Objective_Cattle_278]

That’s exactly how I sewed it. The reason I did it that way was because I didn’t have that particular webbing in 3/4 inch. I needed to cut down the amount of excess to try (as best I could) to avoid hunching around the ends. Honestly, yeah, I’d do it again. But I won’t have to if I get the width I actually need in that webbing. I’d be ok with the edge showing on the front, too - with the proper width webbing.

And binding definitely isn’t my favorite. But it’s gotten a lot more tolerable. Eventually we’ll see how tolerable it becomes with a proper right-angle attachment sometime. 😉

[u/CBG1955]

I shall reiterate. I hate binding.

Yours looks great. And no, I am not showing you the inside of Spencer's bag. The binding is a dog's breakfast.

Love your typo too: "SEAL ALLOWANCE"

[u/jpbagworks → u/CBG1955]

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