Dress Of The Day with Angela

  This sequin pinafore dress which I bought from St Luke's is too small, too tight and the light colour doesn't flatter my full figure. Also I don't wear backless tops.  However, when I lifted the short dress up and the top fell down over the skirt, I thought, I only have to sew up the horizontal hem and I have a large, sequined evening bag. I found a thread of matching colour. However, any colour would have been adequate. By turning the garment inside out to sew, the thread which I used did not notice from the outside.   Button thread would have been stronger. to make the thread stronger, I doubled the thread, tying a knot at the end. When sewing any garment with doubled thread, in theory you could oscillate the direction of the first couple of stitches to secure both ends of the thread, to avoid the irritation or lump of a knot. I had done this previously and it was not a success.  I started my sewing and had to leave it to go out for the evening. When I came ...