I set the duvet cover down with the zip pinned in place and the cover thoroughly supported and flat on a large table behind the sewing machine and to my left.
Following Carinthia’s instructions carefully, I now have the zip sewed in place. There is a minor problem to sort out which is caused by my having managed to cross the loose ends of the zip at the open end but beyond the open bit of the duvet-cover, so I am in the process of carefully un-picking that bit and re-fixing about two inches of zip-sides parallel with each other instead of in a neat St Andrew’s cross. How this happened I shall never know. I have come away for a few minutes to breathe carefully through my nose and not say any of the Words which occurred to me when I realised what I had done.
Once that is beaten into submission, there are two short open bits of seam at the top end of the duvet cover which are a really good idea: you are supposed to catch the top corners of the duvet through the hole they provide and thus pull it into place. The result in practice is two very dirty corners of duvet and a trip to the dry-cleaner, so I shall simply sew up those seams and solve that particular problem once and for all.
I do get the feeling that this particular cover was a prototype, and they gradually improved the design as they went along.
I was kinda pleased with myself, even if it did take all day one way and another.
Everything I used apart from the sewing machine is put away, and that stays out for the time being because I have another couple of small things to mend. Just not right now.
, but the Fiery Red are stunning