a welcome help
Published: Wednesday, December 13th 2006
I AM RETURNING TO NEW YORK AND VISITING ATLANTA IN JANUARY 2007. PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE AN APPOINTMENT.
I AM ALSO IN LONDON ON THE 11TH JANUARY, PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET ME IN LONDON.
I AM WANTING TO USE CLOTH FROM MY LOCAL MERCHANTS, TO ENABLE THIS, I SHALL NOT BE USING THE FITTING ROOMS OF SCABAL WHEN I VISIT LONDON.
My eldest son Sean, is home on leave from the Army and has been a welcome help to me over the last few days.
Sean helped me for a while before deciding he wanted to join the Army and was pretty good at the tailoring. He was and still is a quick learner and definitely has the tailors eye.
I have a lot on at the moment so it has been a massive help having Sean working with me and surprisingly, Sean has not forgotten anything I taught him from over two years ago. I have been able to task him a job and leave him to it.
I have had quite a few alterations in from clients that have.......er, put weight on!.
The festive season has brought the dinner suits, best suits and fancy outfits into the open since last year and a few pounds have been gained since worn last year. I have had one in for reducing, all the rest are increases.
Mind what can I say, I have put a good few pounds on myself!!!.
As well as all these alterations I also have cutting, fitting and making to contend with and most of this cutting and fitting is required before Christmas.
I have had Sean on most things helping me. I taught him a bit of everything when he worked with me as I firmly believe anyone that you train should be able to cut and make the whole garment and be making it through, not giving it to out workers.
His needle skills are good so he has been doing a bit of finishing on jacket linings for me and trouser pockets etc.
The above picture shows Sean felling the linings back around the armholes of a jacket we have let out.
We removed the sleeves completely and let the side seams out including the chest, on both the cloth and the lining, then let the sleeves out including the lining again.
The sleeves are then re-basted back into the jacket checking the hang and look of the sleeves before I stitch them permanently back in to the jacket.
These are big alterations to say the least, and we have had quite a few of them!
The picture above is Sean hand felling the pocket bag to the pocket facing on a pair of trousers, and also doing the hand stitching on the outside of the pocket mouth. Because Sean has been helping me, I have had to 'feed' him his work, that is, make sure he has something at the same time as me, so he is not standing around waiting for me to finish my particular job.
Because of this, I have had to really get stuck in and work fast and also push him along at a fairly brisk pace to keep the momentum, but never compromise the quality, that is number one always.
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