Well, today, I finished the skirt I’ve been working on. I gave up on the blind hem. I think the fabric was a little too unwieldy (ie: hard to press and get it to actually stick), and I’d tried the hem so many times, I had a bunch of stitches I couldn’t entirely pull out […]
So, having given up on the shirt I was working on, I needed a bit of a sewing win. I’d bought some simple gray suiting fabric to make a skirt from a book that gives instructions for patternless skirts, but realized after buying it I’m pretty much a pattern girl. Fortunately, I’ve been sitting on
So, what’s a girl to do on a dreary, rainy, Memorial Day weekend? Sew! (Seriously, I’m wearing a sweater and socks. Some start of the summer season!) I made some binding and a hanger for the sunset quilt, and sewed the front of the binding on. I’ve got the hanger positioned on the back now,
So this weekend’s exciting development in sewing was bias binding tape! Which I’m not entirely sure I really installed correctly, but it does make a nice, neat armhole. I also started on the yoke of the shirt, which is rather gather-rific. And since the fabric is so sheer, it’s really gathery. I’ll admit to a
So my original plan on Sunday was to work on the shirt I cut out about two weeks ago. I got all the way through step 2 (see, there are pre-gathers!), and saw that I hadn’t read the notions list, and therefore didn’t have single fold bias tape. So that didn’t last very long. Since
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The other crafty thing I did this weekend was start on a shirt. I went on a buying binge of both patterns and fabrics right around Christmas (when Joann’s tends to do the buck a pattern sales), and it occurred to me I should really try to use something that I’d bought. So I’m attempting
I finished the hoodie on Sunday. I will likely go back and resew the sides to be a little more close fitting (it’s pretty loose right now), but for the most part, it’s a great pattern – the fit in the sleeves and bust it great. I can totally see myself making this in different
I recently purchased the Sewing with Knits class from Craftsy. If you sign up for the site and don’t buy anything for a while, they’ll send you a class for $19.99 offer (and they have sales occasionally as well), and 20 bucks for a class with five patterns included seemed like a pretty good deal.
The landscape quilt is done. It took a little longer than I originally planned because I had to re-jigger the hanging tube. I’d originally applied it a little lower than it ended up (above), and it just didn’t look right. So off that came, and up it went. The only problem now? We don’t actually
So, in other crafty news, I took out the landscape quilt again this weekend. Yesterday, I sewed all of the layers on. I also got the backing pinned on, made the binding, and got most of the binding sewed on, until I realized I had done the corners completely wrong. So I ripped those out,