You could always use that water soluable interfacing. Draw on it like on paper, then tack it to the fabric, do your handiwork... and get it wet and the paper-like interfacing disappears. Problem solved and in a short amount of time. But sometimes the prep work does take more than the actual handiwork for the end product. Good luck.
Sincerely, Rebecca Rautine > From: aqua...@patriot.net > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:37:21 -0500 > To: h-cost...@indra.com > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Chalking a line > > > On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Alexandria Doyle wrote: > > > I can help but think that running the basting line will take nearly > > as long to do as doing the couching. I know it won't, I just > > finished the pearling on the collar and I had the pattern drawn out > > of muslin, and basted to the black velvet so I could "feel" where > > the pearls were to go... > > > > alex > > > Thread tracing does take time, but sometimes it's worth it. I > once had tiny pleats to make on a very woodgy fabric (grain shifted > easily). The thread tracing took longer than it did to actually > stitch the pleats, but was the best way to get everything in the > right place. > > -Carol > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
