@elexia @sinituulia @valhalla same… in general, finding anything but polyester in stores has been impossible for me (in Germany). Nor even any specialties (I asked for buttonhole silk in several stores and got confused blank stares), just regular thread that's not poly – impossible.

@valhalla but AO3 prohibits original content. It's tolerated largely, but an attempt to repurpose it as an original short film database would be shut down for sure.

There should be a website like AO3, but for short films. Not even hosting directly, but just linking to YouTube and Vimeo and wherever, but with proper tagging and filtering by genre, run time, language, etc.

That would be cool.

@sinituulia I reckon if you make the centre back one longer, it can go over the metal hook, and then the shorter ones at the side over the hanger?

Goddammit, Google is once again less than useful (sew! I mean sew! not embroider!), so here's my question for everyone who knows more about sewing than I do:

I want to attach letters to a jacket. I want to cut these letters out from reflecting tape, for reasons. And for fraying reasons, and a neater finish, I would like there to not be any raw edges.

And I'm not sure how to do that.

Turning the raw edges under is one option, but since letters tend to have a lot of curves and reflecting plastic fabric probably doesn't take well to ironing, that's gonna be a mess of puckering.

I thought of using a very small zigzag to attach them (all but buttonhole density), but that's gonna eat through miles of thread and not look very neat.

There's probably no way to cleanly turn something like a letter A outside out, even if I stencil around the opening.

Idk, am I missing some brilliant, obvious solution here? And if not, what would you go for?

#Sewing #AskFedi