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EDIT: Was supposed to be lamé for the title, but apparently, the é was not acceptable... go figure. So, you're stuck with the title of "LAME trim".~
Okay, here is another one of those "hey, I'm doing this right now, I wonder if anyone is interested in this being a tutorial? I mind-as-well take pictures just in case it helps."
Working with lamé trim can be a pain, but not impossible. Just remember, the larger the size of the piece you're working with (i.e. trim versus a skirt), the more wrinkled it will get, and the easier it will be to screw it up.
I personally don't like lamé except under certain circumstances - I love it as trim, so long as it behaves. There are many other alternatives out there, though, so I suggest that if lamé is giving you a hard time, look around and see what else there is that is shiny
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I still think I get too wordy with tutorials, but ah well. You'll have to deal with it
Please forgive the horrible, horrible drawings, too. I can't help it - I only have a touch-pad to draw with at the moment, and there is so very little you can do with them...
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It was just the angle of the photograph, I didn't do anything to the lame. I am not sure how to get it to "tone down" the shine off the top of my head
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Another thing is to use a stretch needle (usually for swimsuit type fabrics).
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A belated reply, sorry!
I never really had a lot of success with stretch needles, but I may give them a go again, thank you for the tip!
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Also embroidery, metallic, or topstitch needles, if you need a sharp tip.
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Just a thought, but I found it is easier to work with when cut on the bias- the fraying is a lot easier to keep under control that way, so you don't have to clear little sparklies out of your serger for days afterwards
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I now know exactly where my ruffly lame shirt went wrong- apparently, about the time i thought it was a good idea in the first place
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I agree with your friend - whenever I go shopping and need something shiny, I always pass right by the lame with a repulsed look on my face. But this makes it seem more reasonable!
Please keep up the "oh I just thought I'd take pics while I'm making this" tutorials! They are so helpful!
And I don't think they're too wordy - I think they're hilarious, actually!
p.s. I found you through ACParadise. I was thinking of suggesting a "tutorials" section for their forums, what do you think?
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I'll definitely keep up with those! I have a couple more on my hard drive now, and I'm hoping to get them up soon, too
Ah! I haven't been on the ACP forums for ... ever, it seems! It's just so hard to keep up with all of them (and, it seems cosplay forums tend to breed drama, so I avoid that when I can 
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I usually back my lamé with fusible interfacing so it's a little stiffer and easier to work with. It still frays like a bitch, though, so the serging the ends is a neat idea. I wish I had thought to do that on my Fire Emblem costumes sooner. Soooo many hours wasted folding moar to combat fraying edges.
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Ah! I never thought to do that, quite honestly
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lmao. Love the hand drawn embellishments.
Lame is another enemy. A zipper in lame...now there's a nightmare for ya.
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Great tutorial (only just spotted it - too busy looking at other stuff I suppose) I don't think your tutorials are too wordy - but I think I'm guilty of being wordy myself
In the UK and France there's a great alternative to lame (I don't know how to create the accent without digging out my ascii codes 
I've used it for some things - it has different properties and different applications but for shiny shiny trim it's fab!
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Very helpful indeed.
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Me too!
And I found the only way to sew it onto something nicely is by hand - no topstitching XP
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LOL, yep, but it takes sooooo much time!
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Very cool - I have quite a few in my gallery, if you'd like to link to or whatnot with those, too
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Well, you could add them yourself as well - this is a wiki.
Just go to the appropriate page on the wiki, click the "edit" button at the bottom of the page, enter the link to the tutorial in the same way as the other links, and save the result...
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Cuz i am such a loser in sewing, i'll say that ur a professional.
xD
I can only sew skirts.. lol. not that i wear them though. (i mean like, i will wear one if i am a sisseh) Pants r my best frens... xD
say, i'll just put this tutorial to good use. Then i can sew a better costume! ^o^ Yeahhaa!
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Oh awesome! Thank you!!
Hehe, I love skirts
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Weh? Heeey, pants are the best ya know?? Its fun making pants!
...Well, to me at least.
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*shivers* Pants scare the heck out of me... stupid fly zippers 
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Lol. I had fun making them though. ^^ Well, different poeple, different opinions I guess. xD
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INDEED! I am glad that there are poeple out there who actually enjoy sewing in general, tho - I was starting to feel like one of a very small handful XP
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I MUST 
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I had a mental picture of you glowering at the lame(accentsymbol) and going "LAME!" as you have been known to do on occasion.
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It is true. I did that while trying to slip-stitch it in place.
It was not a happy day yesterday...or the day before, I can't remember which...
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I was wondering about the title too, but... well... for all the trouble it gives you, maybe it's appropriate? xP
Stuff like this will be really helpful if/when I ever start sewing anything beyond blankets (I love blankets so much though.. o.o; )
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I 
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especially since it gets so cold in my room... luckily I have a small electric heater (our main heating doesn't reach the upstairs very well, if at all, so we can only heat the first floor of the house)
And when it's windy, it gets colder IN my room than it is outside... I'm not sure how that works...
Glasses break in my room when it gets that cold in the winter though... o.o;;
So what do I do? I put my bed with the long side up against the coldest wall in here because it's the most convenient for where I have to put my tv... which I never watch... o.o;
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Yep, same here... I'm constructing a video of my room being cleaned, and have a small snipit of me talking about it and such and showing the differences... there's like... five videos now..
I think it's mostly to remind me to never let it get nearly that bad again... I don't want to let it get as bad as it is now again, either o.o;;
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Definately something I will keep in mind for future cosplay. 
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Awesome! I am very happy to hear that 
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No way! Your tutorials are purrfect!
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You bet I will
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Yay! 
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nyooo~! You must have audio too!! 
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Ya know. I still think Lame is about the most terrible thing ever to be called fabric. I actually think it capable of giving me nightmares.
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I agree.
And it smells horrible when you melt it
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Actually I like what you may consider 'wordiness'. You include all the extra little hints that we may not have picked up from just looking at the pictures, which is what I find some tutorials like to do.
xD Now I wonder where my iron has run off to this time.
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I love your tutorials ^_^
A "lame" trim... lol! I admit at first ir made me rise my brow and wonder...
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It's a pain in the butt, that is for sure~
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You know we love you for these tutorials, right? I love lame' but I do usually just gather it and use it in tiny bits!! Great technique! Thank you again!
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