This is the last of my
Minoru jacket tutorials following my Royal Blue Minoru Jacket.
Before making this jacket I had
never inserted snaps. I'll be fine, I thought. There's bound to be a
tutorial on-line. If there was I wasn't able to find it. There
were a few tutorials but with different snaps to those I was using.
I started my practice attempts by, gasp, working it out for myself! The instructions on the tiny
packet were minimal to say the least. My biggest problem was working
out what part joined to what, and which way round.
On my first attempt I inserted
the parts the wrong way round so, unsurprisingly, the snaps wouldn't close. I trawled
the internet again to see if I could find a tutorial. The best I
could find was a tutorial for adding snaps to home made nappies of
all things. The tutorial was helpful in showing which way round to
insert the parts so my second attempt was successful.
Another thing that put me
off trying snaps was the misconception that special equipment was
needed. If you're doing snaps a lot then specialist equipment makes
the job easier but you totally don't need it. I just used the little
tools that came with the snaps, a hard surface and a hammer.
This tutorial shows how I
inserted the snaps on the storm flaps I made on the jacket. As the
upper snaps were inside a hidden flap, they were awkward to
insert to say the least. I suppose in ready
to wear they insert the snaps before the plackets are sewn into the
jacket. However I wanted to make sure the upper and lower snaps
lined up correctly so I inserted my snaps at the very end.
Anyway enough talk, here's a
reminder of the snaps, which gives you an idea of why they were
awkward to insert.
The tutorial can be
downloaded from this link. The link takes you to the Rapidshare home page. Click the blue
download button and this takes you to the tutorial. Select the tutorial
and click download. Unfortunately it is slow to download but you may
be able to speed the process up if you sign up for a free Rapidshare
storage account.
If you have any problems
downloading or with the tutorial let me know.
Happy sewing.
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