Archive for the ‘sewing’ Category
well, my dress is almost finished. Yesterday I worked on sewing on the second to last piece. I had nightmares about it after I went to bed. The dress was 4 inches too short somehow and made me look fat. The piece I have left to sew is the next collar point piece. I think [...]
It’s amazing how little you (and by you I mean me) can manage to get one in 3 hours. I’m still working on my dress in fits and starts a little here and there. Months ago I had a huge tearful saga about the sleeves. Who knew sleeves were such little bitches? I had made [...]
Bazaar Bizarre was fun! I went over to the county fair building on Saturday to help with general set up (btw, it’s great fun to volunteer at this sort of thing) and, because I am weird like that, had a satisfying time setting up a million tables. I slacked a bit with my gigantic coffee [...]
I’ve been making spats and reading more crappy romance novels. Vim’s cat died and Jack has all his teeth (totally unrelated things). The black and white spats have pink silk lining and velvet buttons. The other one is authentic Burberry raincoat fabric and has cheerful cloud lining (one cloud in there has a cute silver [...]
This is not the first dress I have worked on. Mama Pajama gave me some hilarious Elvis in Space fabric like 4 years ago and I cut my fabric and even started sewing. Right in the middle, though, I moved and never picked the project up again and then I moved again and now there [...]
I’m taking a garment construction 101 class right now. So far it’s been pretty good. Here is the dress I will be making: I bought 3 yards of this cute Sevenberry Japanese fabric for it: In class we first learned about fabrics and some basics for picking out a pattern. I had that fancy vintage [...]
I’ve made a few baby blankets recently. They all came out pretty cute. One of them I forgot to take pictures of!! it was cute – yellow birdseed by alexander henry with green minky and yellow binding and yellow flannel backing. oh wait, here’s one lame picture: Next I made one big and one small [...]
I mentioned on a previous screamything post that I was entering a slight manic phase. I’m not sure that’s exactly true but I have 3 brazillion projects right now. I was in Peidmont Fabrics the other day when my hand reached out for this gorgeous Liberty of London cotton lawn print. I mean look at [...]
Madness, I tell you.I’m sitting here doing like 45 things at once. Emailing, researching for interviews, thinking about fabric, worrying that I should go home (i’m in a cafe), and thinking about all my millions of projects. It’s suddenly all about layering. In fact one of the projects I would LIKE to be doing soonish [...]
Were do you get your fabric? I think we all have our go-to local fabric store – for me, the big chain store is Joannes. Joannes is fine for cheapish everyday fabrics. The Joannes near me recently closed and so I had to journey to a nearby town to go find one but that one [...]
I purchased the wonder jacket pattern quite a while ago and have finally tried it out. MAN. It is CUTE. and EASY. and FAST. I really like how each size has it’s own pattern paper. I would have been seriously annoyed it I had to use chalk to size it. This one is size 2. [...]
So there I am, sorting through my fantabulous button tin and what happens? My kid wakes up. Goodbye buttons! But then we are peacefully playing upstairs and I think, “Surely I could just open this one and sort out the little boring ones”. So I do. And then I turn around for ONE SECOND. And [...]
How weird is it that my great grand kids will be able to look me up online? Will there be an ‘online’ at that point? Or will it be more like having to dig up the archives of the 8 track tapes in a dusty treasure trove of personal effluvium in an outdated medium. I [...]
I’m so busy that somehow I am not sure I am getting anything done?!! UGH! Today I have dentist appointment, I swear I have that guilty schoolgirl feeling that I’ll be scolded for my obvious disregard for dental hygiene. Plus, it’s a new dentist and I have to bring Mr. Pants with me. I loved [...]
I’ve not been napping, okay, except for 15 minutes today… I have also been making some spats. Fancier than my usual ones. I do so love picking fabrics, lining, buttons, etc. these are pretty fun to make with only stress surrounding the buttonholes. Sewing on shank buttons is a total bitch, it makes my wrists [...]
I’m all excitedly looking through my clothes to decide what to wear to Blogher. Not that it matters AT ALL. And yet… it’s not like I will be having anywhere exciting to go (sans baby) in who knows how long. So why not dress this bitch up, yo? This is primarily a social conference, eh? [...]
As I type this Vim is sitting next to me sewing a baby ‘wife beater’ undershirt for Jack. I’m all having a fit because I don’t want to use the term ‘wife beater’. I mean wtf? But what can I say? muscle shirt is not th same thing. sleeveless white ribbed under shirt? UGH! Anyway. [...]
I bought a new machine. I had a price range at first and I looked at all the machines in that range. I am incapable of staying in my price range. Not only do any and all sales techniques work on me but I secretly covet the fanciest thing in the room. In this case [...]
Yep. Something is rotten int he state of my sewing machines motor. It whirrs slowly and sluggishly and then casually, groaning, moves the needle up and down as if through molasses. Well, CRAP! I guess I’ll have to go out and purchase a new machine. This fills me with dread. Also, glee. I went to [...]
Like a YEAR ago I read something on someone’s blog that has been disturbing me ever since. She was making a distinction between Homemade VS Handmade work. Now, normally I would consider this distinction to be about whether or not one used ONLY ones hands to produce an item or whether one used a machine [...]
