I’ve been meaning to make Ike some pajama pants for quite a while — I have a bit of a hard time finding inexpensive ones I like, so it seems one of the few boy-clothes things that’s worth sewing — plus it’s something where we can have fun with the fabrics, and I want to [...]
This is a project I should have given up on at the beginning, but my legendary persistence ox-brained stubbornness kicked in, and I just had to see it through.
What happened was this: I’ve discovered that although it’s not hard to find gray or black or even red in men’s XXXL t-shirts, prettier colors — [...]
I sewed this to match a nightgown I made for Mabel a few months ago. (Mabel’s is unfortunately in my mending pile while I figure out a way to alter it — I made it to tie at the neck, and after she’d worn it for quite a while (and survived,) one day I [...]
This one wasn’t as fun to sew, since I had lots of difficulties with the neckline: with deciding how to do it, and then in the actual sewing of it, and finally in its not turning out as nicely as I’d hoped. I’m tempted to detail everything that went wrong along the way [...]
Short version: I sewed a new shirt. See pictures below.
(Note: the pictures are lousy. That’s because I’m too eager to post about my succesful sewing project to wait for daylight photos, and because there was a big smudge on my mirror that I was also too impatient to clean.)
Long version: [...]
Mabel has a friend whose birthday is also today. She made a couple of bracelets for her friend, and then we made this bag to put them in.
(It didn’t take that long to do, but it did make a surprisingly big mess in my sewing room, and I feel like this day is getting away [...]
Rose is four today! She and Mabel are wearing matching jumpers I made for them last year using almost every bit of a tablecloth I got at TJ Maxx, and an Ottobre pattern. This year I moved the buttons down on the straps, which gave enough extra length that they were still [...]
Stitch-in-the-ditch is a technique where you stitch into the well of a seamline from the front of a garment to catch something behind; I use it most often to sew down a bodice lining to the waist seam of a dress or jumper to save the time it would take to sew it down by [...]
I was just experimenting with stitches for a dress for Mabel to wear on her baptism day. I haven’t done any smocking in ages, nor any sewing (other than mending) since before Christmas, and it feels SO good to mess around with needle and thread and beautiful fabric. (Mabel’s been warned that this [...]
This was found by someone at the sewing forum I frequent — it’s a super-sized demonstration of how a sewing machine works. The best part is from about 4:30 through 6:30 in the video.
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