doing a vest and want to add a pocket

[SmilinJim]

I'm doing a vest and want to add a pocket. I'll be lacing all edges and seams and don't think I'll have a problem there but not sure about turning corners on a flat surface. Did a test and ran into troubles right off. I've included a pic of joining 2 pieces with a 90 degree angle and another with a curve. As you can see straight is okay but I get in trouble after that. Any help would be appreciated.

Jim

[pepin1948]

I made a vest with pocket for my hubby a while back, and I did a simple flat (i.e. running) stitch on it.

[Beaverslayer]

Hi, I'm new here and maybe a bit late to help you but I've done a lot of vests.

You should be able to see from the pic how I do my pockets.

[Alan Bell]

Hey Jim, As you can see there is no way around that imagine you did the stitch on a straight line then bent it. You would in affect be making the outside of the bend longer and thus spreading your lace and the inside shorter and tightening your lace. Just working off the top of my head I might experiment with either adding 4 more holes (or a multiple there of if that is your pattern) to the outside arc and running through the holes on the inside an extra time to make it all come out in the same place when it runs straight OR I might try making the distance from hole to hole slightly LESS than the width of my lace. This would make each pass overlap and appear extremely tight but on the curve it may look just right OR try to figure the spacing on the outside curve to fit each hole the width of the string or less and then adjust the spacing on the inside as tight as possible and then even it out on the straightways. Just trying to think "outside the box" and have know idea if any of these things will work!