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Any advice on best practice to sew the "spine" of a frame bag? My two side panels are done but my first attempt at sewing them together with a single strip went poorly. I tried to follow Mack Workshop's video but he seems to be doing way better in angles than I am. Here are the problems I encountered so far:
Fabric is bunching up a lot on the angles. Should I cut a pattern into the strip to ease that? How far in? My seam allowance currently is a very conservative 1.5 cm as I was afraid to fuck up.
How do you close the strip once you've gone all the way around? I don't care to leave an opening like Mack Workshop does, so I was just thinking of leaving some extra fabric and simply stitch the two ends of the strips together at the end?
I'm wondering if sewing 4 straight panels on each side of the panels like they do on bikepacking.com (instead of a single strip), then stitching them all together at the angles would make my life easier. What do you think?
(I'm using VX21.)
(edit : removed my comment about the length of the strip, apparently I can't do math)