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Sewing

Lady Grey Coat, Still Going After All These Years

April 13, 2012

The Lady Grey Coat is still a project in progress and is now suffering from all of the woes of my love-hate relationship with sewing. It will be done within a few weeks, I am at all of these final, yet time-consuming, finishing steps, and realizing and bemoaning all of the things that went wrong [...]

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Sometimes I just wonder

March 12, 2012

Sseriously, sometimes I wonder why I even sew. Things never come out the way they were imagined after pouring hours and hours into them. Case in point, this pattern (Simplicity 3906) for a dog ramp. If it said unsuitable for obvious one-way prints, I didn’t see it. Ding number one. The way they think you [...]

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UFO: Picking back up on making the Lady Grey Coat

January 31, 2012

Is this the third time I have restarted this project? Well I just realized my fabric is plaid (yes, I can be an idiot) and I gave no thought at all to matching plaid lines. Screw it. It will be what it will be. I am thoroughly enjoying putting to use the tailoring techniques learned [...]

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Sewing Technique Spotlight

January 31, 2011

Tailor’s tacks. They were a great mystery to me. In a way, they still are. I have not successfully used them, but I am in love with the idea of eventually doing so. Threads Number 145 had this tip below (quoted as printed) as the featured reader tip by Laurie Wilcox. Easy Tailor’s Tacks Sometimes [...]

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Crêpe Sew-Along, what the heck, we will call it week 4

January 31, 2011

My progress can be summed up into two words. Very little. I have cut out the underlining and am using a flatlining technique (that I utterly failed at before) to bind the seams and underline in one step.

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Lady Grey Sew-A-Long Week… Ummm, on hold

December 30, 2010

The Lady Grey is once again on hold as I try to keep up in the Colette Crêpe Sew-A-Long. More details on that in my next post.

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Lady Grey Sew-Along Week 5

December 14, 2010

Since the Crepe Sew-Along has begun, I have to work on this one around the edges. And I have to recover from my Snuggie beating as well. So… I am going to try to get the pattern cut out of the fashion fabric this week. I have it laid out, and I think I came [...]

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Colette Crepe Dress Sew-Along Week 1

December 14, 2010

Here is the fabric: and here is the pattern: And here are pews with all the little people. It is muslin fitting time, and I am on my first muslin of the bodice only. I need to transfer these changes to the pattern and make another muslin to tweak. It fit fine across the bust, [...]

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Snuggie Update

December 9, 2010

Okay I would be pathetic if a Snuggie was kicking my ass, but that isn’t what is happening. The pattern is crap. I didn’t think it was possible for a Snuggie pattern to be crap (other than the inherent crappiness that some fashion snobs think that Snuggies have in their very nature), but it is [...]

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Lady Grey Week Three

November 22, 2010

Crap, crap, crap. The dreaded “learning experience” has hit this project. I screwed up. Several times. First, the whole armhole thing was a tempest in a teapot. I forgot that since the sleeves were not yet inserted, the seam allowances, which were increased to one inch for the muslin, were still there, narrowing the armhole, [...]

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