My next project.
The jacket that I am currently working on Vogue 8600 calls for snaps – these very large ones. I am still sewing the jacket, but I did sit down and covered the snaps. This is really simple and adds a nice finish to a jacket. I will provide more info once I complete the jacket. However, there hasn’t been much ’sewing time’!
Happy Thanksgiving
Thankgiving is the best holiday of all. No presents to buy/wrap/ or plan on exchanging and this Thanksgiving I will be surrounded by friends and family. Happy Thanksgiving to all my US family & friends and to those abroad, too.
Another new blouse!
For the upcoming holidays I need some new clothes, so I have been working on some blouses to wear and this is one I just finished.
Butterick B0468/B5300
Of course, if you pull this pattern it doesn’t look like this. I added the collar and the sleeve ruffles. The fabric is from Michael Levine’s Loft in LA. I think it was $2 for the whole bit I bought. In order to make the ruffles, I used the directions in Roberta Carr’s book, Couture: The Art of Sewing (ISBN 0-935278-28-1). Since the ruffles are all cut on the bias it is very difficult to make a rolled hem, so I improvised and used what we used to call a ‘baby hem’. In order to get the fabric ’stiff’ enough for me to sew and press I ‘painted’ Pefect Sew’ on the edges and let it dry.
Perfect Sew
I then stitched around the circumference of the ruffle and then pressed and sewed again. Probably not the best instructions; however, the ‘baby hem’ is demonstrated in lots of sewing books.
And, thus I have a new blouse. The buttons are from my stash. Once completed I just hand washed the Perfect Sew from the blouse. The fabric was difficult to work with, but I like how the blouse turned out and I am sure I will wear it many, many times.
Thanks for visiting!
Teaching Sewing
My niece spent the weekend and besides the two hours of Trick O’ Treating we did, we also did some sewing!
She made two pairs of leggings. This time, I only made the casing for the elastic- she did everything else. Of course, in the end, she really doesn’t like to sew. She would rather go shopping for clothes than make them. She just humors me about sewing. She would like to ‘play’ with the sewing machine sort of like ’surfing’ on the internet.
So now back to my own projects. I have quite a stack of unfinished projects waiting and waiting for me!
