Thursday, September 10, 2015

Ripped hem repair

You never want to see this come down after the show!

During one of the performances of "You Can't Take It With You", Annaleigh Ashford put her heel thru her hem.  It happens.  This is how I repaired it.

I first made a muslin patch and using small stitches on the machine, used the zigzag stitch to anchor it down.  Then, I cut away the excess.







Next, I hand stitched parts of it down, like the trim.


It looked like this close up.


And further away, it looked like this.  One would never know what happened from stage!