Finished! A jackety-cardigan thing
Behold, a finished make! My mum gave me an overlocker a fair few Christmasses ago. I’d been over at hers and she’d been saying she never used hers, so I said if she ever wanted to get rid of it, I’d give it a home, but themn she went out about bought me a brand new one. So for a while we both had overlockers we weren’t using… Anyway, I decided I was going to use it or I’d have to find it a new home, and as patterns go McCall’s M6996 looked simple enough. This flocked, heavy jersey fabric came up in an end-of-line sale at Minerva, so I thought I’d have a stab at it. Have you ever tried threading an overlocker? They are absolute gits . I’ve now got it down to less than 30 minutes from getting mine out to being able to start sewing. That’s half an hour to get all four threads in place – they have to be done in a precise order, and run through all sorts of faffy eyelets and hooks – and test it on a piece of fabric, then to repeatedly rethread it and retest the stit...
