I'll keep this short.
I recently completed two TQ's (climashield, I'll be posting those once I take some photos/etc), and was looking to make some stuff sacks with the scraps. Stuff sacks seem so easy... but I've failed miserably two or three times now. Given, they actually work ok, they just look awful.
The problem I'm having specifically is with the cinch portion at the top. The edge where the cord comes out has to be rolled, but with how I've been doing rolled hems so far (rolling hem presser foot), I can't start that close to the edge/end of the piece of fabric. Part of the problem may be that I am having a hard time getting my machine to propperly move the 1oz HypderD by itself, so I can't really lock the stitch in right at the end, as I have to have enough to hold onto to help pull the material through. This makes it so the portion where the cord comes out is a mess of fraying nylon, thread ends, and typically some bunching... It doesn't look great.
Is there some sort of dark secret to all of this that I'm not aware of?
Also, I did some searching, and saw some talk about stuff sacks, but nothing quite like this, so I figured I'd ask.
Oh, and is it necessary to do a felled seam on these? I was just planning on doing a normal run of stitches...
Thanks for the help
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