Thanks. Yes. Pins!

Neil.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Sheilah Rogers <sheilah@sheilah.org> wrote:
> Yes, well those ones on the hatch, for instance, with soft rods on top and bottom (in my 86 westy, i think the same in yours) could have given me something of a crick in the neck while doing, but lining them up was very easy.
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> I used pins to secure the new fabric onto the old fabric (with a hem folded over already). Then I just did a quick stitch all the way around the edges of the pinned panel, removing pins as I went.
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> Going with the flow rather than fussing over the distance between stitches makes it go pretty fast and typically yields (at least for me) a more uniform stitch.
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> Did I nail it this time?
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> On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:58 AM, neil n wrote:
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>> Re: second set of eyes.
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>> Was thinking that it might be a challenge to line up the new panel by
>> feel on curtains installed with upper and lower rods

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