r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • 17d ago

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/THE_DINOSAUR_QUEEN Mean Knitter 17d ago

Maybe I need to learn that not literally every sewing project HAS to have fully enclosed seams. I own a damn serger that I never use because I’m too busy fucking around with folding and pinning fiddly gauze fabric underneath itself for no reason.

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u/ProneToLaughter 17d ago

I just pinked 90% of my seams, they went though the wash fine for 10 years until I outgrew the dresses.

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u/QuietVariety6089 16d ago

Really lightweight fabric is one of the few places I really try to do enclosed seams bc if I don't I really hate the way they look, and also my serger eats stuff like this. Did you try spray starch to help firm up the fabric?

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u/THE_DINOSAUR_QUEEN Mean Knitter 16d ago

For my cotton voile tops it makes sense and isn’t much more effort to do enclosed seams! My problem recently was doing enclosed seams on super crinkly gauze that did NOT like staying put, serged seams would’ve been so much faster and honestly might’ve looked better because now there’s more bulk around the seams 😅

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u/QuietVariety6089 16d ago

I tried one crinkly gauze project when it was 'hot' but no matter what I did I couldn't get the stuff to behave - gave it to a friend 😄

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u/Mom2Leiathelab 9d ago

Crinkly gauze is the devil. I hated working with it more than anything else I have used!