Re: Kylo Ren WIP (Pic Heavy)
Awesome, happy it helped!
On the sides, I have a post from end of March (I think) that covers a double-bound seam. So, that should help with how to do the sides. Shoulders, no. Back seam, there is one, but it's not bound.
Let me also just have a moment. The 501st is good at finding reference but, generally, knows nothing about garment construction. There is a difference between piping and binding.
Piping is a bias-cut strip of fabric that can be wrapped around a piece of cord. This is then sewn into the the seam of the finished garment by sandwiching into the two pieces when they are sewn right-sides-together. When finished, you turn the pieces out and press them and have a piped edge (like on an armchair or sofa cushion). This is not a good solution for heavy, multiple layers of fabric and it creates a huge amount of bulk and doesn't lay well.
Binding is putting the garment layers wrong-side-together (as they will be when finished), basting them and then trimming the edges and wrapping them with a strip of bias-cut fabric. The basted garment has the pre-pressed bias tape applied to one side, folded over and stitched to the other, thereby encasing the raw edge in a nice, tidy strip of fabric. This can be done front to back (if you want to stitch in the ditch and hide the stitching on the front) or back to front (if you want to bring the bias edge to the front and have top-stitch detail).
Hope that helps, cheers!
Awesome, happy it helped!
On the sides, I have a post from end of March (I think) that covers a double-bound seam. So, that should help with how to do the sides. Shoulders, no. Back seam, there is one, but it's not bound.
Let me also just have a moment. The 501st is good at finding reference but, generally, knows nothing about garment construction. There is a difference between piping and binding.
Piping is a bias-cut strip of fabric that can be wrapped around a piece of cord. This is then sewn into the the seam of the finished garment by sandwiching into the two pieces when they are sewn right-sides-together. When finished, you turn the pieces out and press them and have a piped edge (like on an armchair or sofa cushion). This is not a good solution for heavy, multiple layers of fabric and it creates a huge amount of bulk and doesn't lay well.
Binding is putting the garment layers wrong-side-together (as they will be when finished), basting them and then trimming the edges and wrapping them with a strip of bias-cut fabric. The basted garment has the pre-pressed bias tape applied to one side, folded over and stitched to the other, thereby encasing the raw edge in a nice, tidy strip of fabric. This can be done front to back (if you want to stitch in the ditch and hide the stitching on the front) or back to front (if you want to bring the bias edge to the front and have top-stitch detail).
Hope that helps, cheers!
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