Saturday 24 January 2015

From Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spiderman


Lately, I have been investing time in my spidey vest.


 Vest Front


I used snaps for the closures and add wooden gears to connect to the steampunk theme.


Vest Back (which looks awesome)


 I couldn't decide on which colour of satin lining to use, so I used blue in the front and red in the back.


I had a few problems with the leather and satin. In some areas on the vest the leather is to thick to machine sewn and had to be hand sewn. In the picture above, the sewing machine chewed up some of the satin (only happened to the back of the neck). So I stitched on some bias tape around the chewed area. I recommend you stitch on the bias tape to the lining first to avoid this problem.