Sewing with minkee

[Cherie]

Ugh! I haven't even started the actual sewing yet, but just pinning and cutting the fabric was tricky enough. It slid everywhere and bunched up under the pins despite my best efforts to keep it flat. I'm not looking forwards to trying to sew with it.

[~Raven~]

Yep it's slippery alright! Use HEAPS of pins and take it slowly!

What are you sewing it too? It's really hard when you use PUL as it doesn't have much stretch at all.

[Cherie]

I'm making a honeyboy, with a minkee/PUL outer (I didn't think the minkee would be waterproof enough) and a bamboo fleece inner. The hidden layer will probably be an old cut up flannelette sheet.

Sounds like I'm going to have trouble with the minkee/PUL combo

[~Raven~]

A little bit Cherie but you'll be right

I've had a bit of practice with minky but I still get caught out sometimes. Do you have some offcuts that you can practice on first?

[melbel]

Don't forget the lunch wrap trick. Plt a layer of paper lunch wrap on top and this will stop the slip sliding . Then when you are done just tear the lunch wrap away and voila!!

Also with stretch fabrics it helps to put the pins in sideways not lengthways...stops the bunching up (well most of it anyways).

[Cherie]

Ahhhh ... our course Mel! If I'd put the pins in sideways that would have made a huge difference! I feel a bit silly now for not thinking of it lol.

When you say put the lunch wrap on top, do you mean on the right side of the fabric, or the wrong side? Actually, it would be the wrong side wouldn't it ... and then tear it off before I turn the whole lot inside out and topstitch? That sounds like a good plan. I could even try tacking the minkee to the PUL, and then treat it as a single layer when I'm sewing the rest of it together.

Lots of good ideas here. Thanks