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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

canetoad

(18,253 posts)

5. Thanks Hekate

Reply to Hekate (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 1, 2022, 12:19 AM

Feb 2022

Back to the drawing board, but in a good way.

Sorted the old sewing machine and now it's sewing neoprene well. I believe the original (front) zip on the wetsuit was badly designed - 10-15cm too short, because you need to wriggle out of it by pulling it backwards.

So the current plan is a new, heavy duty longer zip, sewn in with the 1952 Helvetia! (On edit: Helvetica is a font!)

Isn't it a beauty?