DEADPOOL - a little sewing

As promised ... albeit a little later than intending ... some pics of me sewing Mr. Deadpool.

Seeing these photos brings back memories of my 3 months in Santa Barbara. That was a great place to be for the winter, but I am STILL picking up the pieces of my life since returning home ... taxes, doctor's visits, driver's license renewal, and OY!!! the GARDEN ...

but, I digress. I am going to show you how to deal with all the corners between the red and black sections. How to make them clean and even.

The side of the corner the dents inward needs to be reinforced first.
Draw on the back side of the fabric the exact stitching line and machine stitch along that line about one inch on either side from the corner.

Then you can clip all the way into that corner without worrying that the fabric will tear or run.

This allows the corner to open up to fit the outward pointing piece it needs to be sewn to.

To look like this.

Some of the corners need the black stitched clipped and some need the red. This means you will be flipping the piece back and forth while working, sewing sections at a time.

There are a lot of corners here.

To make all the seams lie flat, I edge stitched on the black pleather close to the seam line. Pleather doesn't press very well ...
A Teflon foot makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE ... it just glides over the vinyl instead of sticking and pulling.

Speaking of sticking and pulling ... the eye patches on the mask are tricky, too.

You can see, I pinned the liv'n' daylights out of it. Those are really, really thin pins that do not leave a visible hole. I found I needed this many pins to keep it from twisting and buckling. The Teflon foot is my friend again.

Also, only sew as much of the mask as it needed for the eye patches. It is much easier to work with the piece as flat as possible.

There will be another DEADPOOL sewing post soon ... really ...