"Now I've wondered more than 2 hours why you would need to wonder 2 hours! No
one else has posted to ask about this, so I guess I will: Where was your
difficulty originally, that made you come up with this formula?
It sounds like the formula determines distance between holes based on the
number of holes. But I would determine the spacing of the holes first, and the
number of holes would be however many I needed at that spacing. I frankly
wouldn't know how many holes I was going to use till I was done, and I don't
think I've ever bothered to count them. It's the spacing I care about."
Well, I make a larger distance between the holes, at least 1inch, so if I
started marking the holes from the top to the bottom, in the bottom there might
be an either too small or too large distance from the center front seam. That
wouldn't, I guess, look very good. So that's why I first mark the first and
last hole, then measure the distance, say how many holes I want (to make
approx. the distance between them I want) and calculate the exact distance
between the holes. I admit, it really sounds complicated, but for me it's not
and I'm sure that the last hole will be in the right place.
By the way, the making of that formula didn't take me more than 5 minutes, I
just wondered a bit about how do I actually calculate it and put it into a
formula.
But if you place holes even under the center front seam (that means the holes
are in place where there is no opening any more, did I get that right?), then
your method is surely easier. I actually never even thought about placing the
holes there. I never had the chance to go to a museum where I could see a dress
with spiral lacing clearly in detail. So that's why I didn't even think about
it:-))
Now when thinking about it, I don't only make medieval dresses, I make
corsets and other garments of later periods where I use spiral lacing. And
there it's sometimes important to have the first and last hole in the right
place, so that's maybe why I'm making it all so difficult:-)
"Something I do before I start all of this: I baste a line down each edge,
exactly 1/2 or 5/8 inch from the edge and parallel to it. When I mark my
eyelets, my marking lines cross the basting line, forming a + . The eyelets go
on those intersections. The basting helps keep the lining and the main fabric
from getting off-kilter while I sew the eyelets. I remove the basting after the
eyelets are sewn."
I do that, too.
Zuzana
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