A proper Swiss waist has hand-worked eyelets, not metal.
I said, pfft, we know me, I don't do hand sewing, so I will finally make something like a Swiss waist, and I will use the grommet machine to apply metal eyelets.
And then I did not heed a friend's advice to punch the holes with the smaller die size, and, while that was not a problem for 7/8 of the eyelets, it was very much a problem for that last one.
How did I solve that problem?
...by hand-sewing over all of the eyelets, making sure to catch the edges that didn't get trapped in that one eyelet, and just covering all the others.
(yes, the recalcitrant eyelet is marked by an overly exuberant amount of Fray Check that did not dry clear.)
