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Inspector kitties interfering very cutely with my curtain making project

#Kitties #TuxedoCats #sewing #NaughtyCats
Photo of a black and white kitty looking down at a huge piece of pink, black and blue fabric she is sitting on
Photo of two black and white kittys looking down at a huge piece of pink, black and blue fabric they are sitting close to. They're also looking at a tape measure which has been pulled out and laid on the fabric
Photo of a black and white kitty looking down at a huge piece of pink, black and blue fabric she is standing on. Seen from above
Photo of a black and white kitty looking up at a huge piece of pink, black and blue fabric that is hanging from an ironing board. She looks angry. There's more white fabric crumpled in the foreground
#sewing #kitties #tuxedocats #naughtycats

I have been told that it is customary to do an #introduction post, so here I go.

I love #cats, have 2; #squid (arsehole) and #newton (fatso).

#music is important to me and I have something playing most of the time.

#sewing and #knitting are my hobbies as well as #gardening. I sound like an old woman! Oh wait I am!!

Love #books have way too many. Too many on #baking and #crafts

Oh I talk too much and laugh way too loud - might also find me dancing in the aisle of my local supermarket.

xx
#music #introduction #Cats #sewing #books #knitting #crafts #Gardening #baking #squid #newton

Here is my tatreez progress, I finally finished a piece. This is basically the Bateekh / Watermelon / بطيخ motif but I only used two colours because I'm a beginner.

I am participating in Tatreez and Chai workshops, part of the Threads of Diaspora project organized by CPSA London. Their project is going to be beautiful.

https://cpsalondon.ca/cpsalondoncalendar/5nya7fynsnkh9ypa9lb05atceaers9-ajzfr
https://tirazain.com/archive/p/lily-f5j49-2ydlp-jkdr3-mm25j

#Palestine #FreePalestine #tatreez #PalestinianCulture #craft #sewing #embroidery #Gaza #LdnOnt
Close up of tatreez cross-stitch embroidery on coarse black fabric. There are four columns, each with four green watermelons separated by red vines. The quality of the stitching starts off rather poor but improves somewhat going from left to right.

Tatreez Workshops — cpsalondon

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#sewing #craft #ldnont #palestine #gaza #freepalestine #embroidery #palestinianculture #tatreez

Today was my first Tatreez & Chai class!

Thank you Rasha and everyone else. I had fun and learned some important basic skills that I had been missing after trying to learn on my own during the past week.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB63vumRAQE/

Here is a photo of my progress, some of it was done after class today. My first cross-stitches ever.

This is for my project with @Haneenalbrqouni

@palestine

#FreePalestine #Palestine #PalestinianCulture #tatreez #crafting #sewing #embroidery #resistance
Close up photograph of some tatreez cross-stitching that is in progress. There are two small pieces of aida count 11 cloth, one white and one black. Between the two pieces of fabric is a tatreez pattern printed on paper of watermelons and vines. On top of the piece of paper rests a needle threaded with red thread. The white cloth on the left has two green watermelons cross stitched in somewhat poorly. The rest of the pattern is drawn onto the fabric with pencil . Resting above this piece of cloth is a floss of green thread numbered 895. The black cloth on the right has a single watermelon cross-stitched a little more evenly than the two on the white fabric. All three watermelons are green thread. Above the black cloth is a floss of red thread numbered 321.
#sewing #resistance #palestine #freepalestine #embroidery #crafting #palestinianculture #tatreez @palestine @Haneenalbrqouni

Nothing special, just a basic t-shirt. But at least it’s done now, 33 days later. 🤦🏽‍♂️ @sewing

For the sake of distraction and my mental health, I should start #sewing something new right away. But for the sake of my physical health, I should stay off my feet and give it a break for a while. Hm.
Front exterior view of a freshly sewn peach jersey t-shirt laying flat on a large cutting mat.
Rear exterior view of a freshly sewn peach jersey t-shirt laying flat on a large cutting mat.
#sewing @sewing group

This is the longest I’ve had a #sewing project on the go: 30 days so far! @sewing

I’m still recovering, albeit very slowly, after our landlord shut off the A/C for 14 days and sent me to the hospital. It’s been a long, tiresome month. #MECFS #SEID

I’ve gotten as far as putting binding on the t-shirt collar seam. Trying to sew while sick like this made me miss the binding right near the end, but thankfully chainstitches pull out easily. The second pass was much better! Sleeves next, eventually…
Binding being sewn onto the collar of a peach t-shirt using an industrial coverstitch machine.
A peach t-shirt with binding sewn on the collar; you can see that the binding was missed right before the end on the right-hand side.
Interior rear view of a peach t-shirt with binding sewn on the collar after a successful second pass.
Exterior front view of a peach t-shirt with binding sewn on the collar after a successful second pass.
#sewing #mecfs #seid @sewing group

🧵 2/2 @sewing #sewing

Thankfully I’ve broken the habit of wasting time to save thread.

But I still haven’t broken the habit of trying to maximize #fabric usage, even though I always buy at least ½ yard extra.

I paid $5/yd for 1½ yds of this fabric and used <1 yard after pre-washing to make a t-shirt. It took me 80 mins to cut out the pattern pieces on grain, but I could have saved so much time if I worried less about having a large continuous piece left over. And what can I really use it for?
A 58” × 23” piece of peach jersey fabric lies flat on a large cutting table. You can see a 18” × 2½” quilting ruler in the middle of the fabric as well as a small pile of scraps near the front.
#sewing #fabric @sewing group

I remember when I first started #sewing, I economized #thread as much as possible.

I’d even pull thread back on the machine before starting every seam to not have long thread tails; I never pulled threads through to rethread the serger, preferring to re-thread every time so I wouldn’t waste thread!

Then I realized I was only saving fractions of a cent at the huge expense of time.

Still, I’ve kept all my thread scraps thinking I’ll use them one day as stuffing for a dog toy. @sewing

🧵 1/2
A large ziplock bag overflowing with thread scraps on a large cutting mat. Some of the thread is from serger tails, some from coverstitching tests, some from unpicking seams, and some from daily sewing.
#thread #sewing @sewing group

Dear elves, I don't want you to make shoes or #sew clothes for me. Instead, it would be really nice if I could make clothes while you do my office job and pay the bills so I can just concentrate on #sewing
#sewing #sew

#WeekendSewingClub final update. Still a bit of finishing to be done on the fly opening, but I’m ready for an evening off! I’m pretty satisfied with how these turned out. I love a woven selvedge, so I was pleased to think of keeping it visible on the inside waistband. And I’m definitely more of a shorts-suit person than anything more grown-up, so Will actually wear this lot.

#sewing #tailoring #maker #homeMade #iMadeItMyself
Me wearing homemade, dark-green, pleated shirts, with black tights, shoes and tshirt.
Me wearing homemade dark green jacket and matching shorts
Photo of the inside waistband of the shorts: featuring the woven selvedge edge of the fabric as edge-finish. Also visible: black acetate lining.
#sewing #weekendsewingclub #tailoring #imadeitmyself #maker #homemade

I made a tiny handbag for a friend and I'm really tempted to make another one for myself. It's so cute! It holds a mobile phone, some cards and money and really not much else. That's why I don't think I need it. But ... 🥰 According to the instructions, there where more slots for cards and no zipper pocket. Considering that we are in Germany after all, I added that. Never leave the house here without some loose change ... 😆
#sewing #handmade #naehen
On an offwhite shiplap door a small handbag is hanging. It's beige with a floral pattern in navy, a lighter blue and white. The bottom, the strap and bias binding of the flap are blue.
The same small handbag from another angle.
The bag is lying on the table. It's open to show the blue lining.
View into the bag. There are card slots and a zipper pocket.
#sewing #handMade #naehen

I also enjoyed visiting the Te Rua Makerspace at the library of the University of Canterbury

https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/library/library-facilities/te-rua-makerspace It was fascinating to hear how the library managers seek to engage and include the various parts of the university community. #3dprinting #sewing #fashion #makermovement #innovation
Makerspace

Te Rua Makerspace | University of Canterbury

Te Rua Makerspace is a place where UC students and staff can create, craft, and dream. See what's on and find out what you can do at Te Rua Makerspace.
www.canterbury.ac.nz
#sewing #3dprinting #innovation #fashion #makermovement

How many machine stitching people like me sometimes need a solution for not confusing a brand-new machine needle with a gently-used-but-still-good one? I found a solution that works for me, and I’m really pleased! Details are on my blog at https://sandymike.net/blog/2024/08/31/a-solution/.
#quilting #sewing
A wooden box with hinged lid. The box is divided into eight small sections, intended for tea bags, but it is full of packages of needles. The lid has a sort of large pin cushion custom fitted into it, marked with a grid for various types and sizes of partially-used needles.

A solution!

There are times when a sewist uses a machine needle for a very short time and then has to change types. What to do with the partially-used (but not used up) needle? I’ve always simply put the…
Quilting and more ...
#sewing #quilting

Things are moving right along with the #PsychadelicFloral shirt that I’m making for myself to wear at the Elfkin showcase next month. I’m about to attempt a new-to-me method for attaching a convertible collar where the collar goes on *before* the yoke is closed. Theoretically, it allows me to catch in all of the layers of the fronts, front facings, collar, and yoke pieces in one go. Theoretically. #sewing #ElfkinCouture
Front, yoke, and collar pieces of a shirt lay flat on a gridded cutting table. The fabric is a vintage 1960s floral print silk in greens and pinks.
#sewing #PsychadelicFloral #ElfkinCouture

I realized on my walk this morning that I was wearing a totally me-made ensemble.

Dress: McCall’s 7121 from Spoonflower fabric
Shirt: Liverpool shirt from Amy Butler patterns, stash linen
Bag: self drafted pattern from Spoonflower fabric

#sewing #handmade #memademay
A selfie of a Caucasian woman smiling at the camera. She is wearing reflective rose gold sunglasses. Her dress has a v-neck and is a brown jersey fabric printed with raspberry leaves and brambles, with a pale blue fitted linen overshirt. Over her shoulder is a cream-colored tote bag with cotton straps, printed with autumn leaves and teal bicycles.
#sewing #handMade #memademay

Day 6 is another Made for Mermaids Tinsley dress. I'm not so keen on the drapey bamboo jersey. With a former cotton jersey, the skirt flares more, balancing my hips and giant boobs
#sewing #memademay2024 #memademay
A middle aged white lady wearing a strappy sundress with blue and purple paisley
#sewing #memademay #memademay2024

I pledge to wear at least one me-made garment each day. My goal is to evaluate my wardrobe, see what I don't wear and why and hopefully come out with some sewing plans for June
#sewing #memademay
On a pink background, bold red letters: Me Made May 2024. Bottom left corner: @sozoblog
#sewing #memademay

#WeekendSewingClub

It’s the oversized blazer, done except for the front fastening. I just need to summon the energy to go out and find a suitable button.

Super pleased with this as my first start-to-finish garment of 2024, and an eminently wearable one.

#sewing #tailoring #maker #iMadeItMyself #itHasPockets
Me wearing the (very nearly finished) houndstooth tweed coat. It’s an oversized blazer with big, patch pockets.
The houndstooth coat (grey and dark navy check) hanging up. It doesn’t have a fastening, yet, at the front. It doesn’t exactly need one, being so generously sized it hangs closed of its own accord.
#sewing #weekendsewingclub #tailoring #imadeitmyself #maker #ithaspockets

I have received back the edited photos from the summer of the fancy lad, and they’re fancy!
(I made a #cosplay of a Sakizou illustration. It kept me busy and sweaty until Dragon*Con)
If you followed #sewing last summer, you might have seen me post non-stop on this project for two months.
This is a close up of my toso in the costume. I am holding the giant acrylic gemstone that is at my neck. There are more around my waist. There’s a lot going on. The vest is green silk with a panel down the front. The vest is trimmed in lace and rhinestones. Watermark reads amiephotos.com
I am dressed in green, white and gold. The outfit is the cosplay of peridot, Sakizou’s gemstone gentleman. The outfit is a lot, and this photo has fancy soft focus and refraction. I am swooshing the cape as elegantly as I can manage. Watermark reads amiephotos.com
Sitting on some post modern office steps while dressed as the fancy lad. It manages to look a bit like a fancy 80s soft focus music video. Watermark reads amiephotos.com
#sewing #cosplay

Noooooooooooo! I’m going to have to venture into Walmart before I can finish my skirt 😭 #Sewing #Handmade
A spool of brown thread on a sewing machine. The spool is nearing the end with about 1/3 of white spool showing at the top.
#sewing #handMade

Inhaltswarnung: Selfie, eye contact

#sewing #denim

Happy Monday, #sewing and #fashion hive minds! As I get ready to open the Elfkin shop, I find myself with a linguistic dilemma with which I could use your help.

Traditionally, the clothing I make is referred to as "tailored menswear." Given that two of my fit models are woman and that it's 2023, I'm wondering if there may be a less obviously gendered term out there.
#sewing #fashion

All the fabric I use is from vintage collections, destashes, remnants and other second hand textile sources like clothing. I'm usually able to cut around flaws but sometimes they sneak in! In the case of this hat, the upholstery fabric unravelled quickly once it was cut and as a result some fibres weren't caught in the seams.

I could have consigned this hat to the bin - and a manufacturer may well have simply thrown it away. I want to draw attention to textile waste so it'd be hugely hypocritical of me to cast a hat aside when some simple mending could make it wearable and actually even more interesting.

Visible mending can be so gorgeous! I got a book out of the library the other week and did a bit of weaving to enclose the loose fibres and strengthen the area.

I hope someone will love this hat enough to adopt it and build fabulous outfits around it.

#visiblemending #sewing #slowfashion #textilewaste
Close up on a hat made of a rose brown velour upholstery with floral woven into it. A rectangular patch of pink woven thread is up against a seam.
Two patches of visible pink mending on the side of the hat.
A wider angle so you can see the whole bucket hat. A swing tag says "this is trash".
#sewing #visiblemending #slowfashion #textilewaste

Sweet mercy, the print matched cargo pockets are done! Hopefully the rest of this stitch up proceeds like the wind as it’s all simple stuff from here on out. #sewing #MenWhoSew #lgbt #artist
Two pants legs under construction facing each other at the crotch. Closeup view shows off how the cargo pockets match the underlying print from the front of each leg. Fabric is a pistachio green with magenta toile de Jouy (18th century French illustrations of rural life - this one is Asian rural life) print. Tableaus depicted are a boy on an elephant, a noble on a fancy litter, and two egrets grazing a marsh). Each tableau is approximately 12 inches wide and they have been centered on the high thigh area of the pants legs.
#LGBT #sewing #artist #menwhosew

@sewing@a.gup.pe @sewing@chirp.social This is the Tinsely tennis dress by Made for Mermaids. I highly recommend a test in cheap fabric because the built-in bodysuit/unitard is very fitted and I needed to add length to the lining bodice but not the dress bodice. I love it! If this pattern had been released in the spring, my whole summer wardrobe would have been these.
#sewing #WeekendSewingClub
White woman with shoulder length grey hair takes a mirror selfie: the light pink dress is above the knee with a flared skirt and dark pink straps
I am lifting the hem of the dress to show the built-in shorts with my hand in the pocket.
#sewing #weekendsewingclub @sewing group @sewing

I may have said previously that making my own bias binding was my new worst sewing job, but I lied.

I forgot setting in sleeves is the worst sewing job. This is the 3rd time I'm unpicking this sleeve (so far).

Is there a sure-fire method? Or am I just bad at it...

#sewing @sewing@chirp.social @sewing@a.gup.pe
#sewing @sewing group @sewing

Today my Greist buttonholer arrived. It comes with five templates, a thingy to cover the feed dogs so that only the buttonholer will move the fabric, and a sense of simplicity and elegance.

It's like a walking foot: when the shaft for the presser foot is screwed in place, the lever will fit over the screw that holds the needle in place, and the movement of the needle will operate the buttonholer mechanism. If kept oiled and free of rust, it will last forever.
#Sewing #SewingMachine #Buttonhole
Close up of the needle going through the metal plate covering the little toothy bits which usually feed the fabric through one stitch-length at a time.
Difficult to make out but it's the parts of the buttonholer which attach to the sewing machine, lined up so that you can sort of see where things go
Five buttonhole templates: they are metal shapes with indented teeth for a cog to move along. Each template produces a different length of buttonhole.
#sewing #sewingmachine #buttonhole

The strangest presser foot accessories that came with my Singer 201K. #Sewing #SewingMachine
Part number 35931, which is an adjustable hemmer which might be more complicated to use than it is labour saving, I'm not sure
Part number 36583 is a tuck marker. It has a lot of adjustable bits, but I really don't understand it.
Part number 35932 is a quilting foot and part number 121547 is an upside-down underbraider, which I also don't understand but you use it with the quilting foot.
#sewing #sewingmachine

The case of my 1940 Singer 201K handcranked sewing machine. The way the storage and case works is so, so simple and clever. #SewingMachine #Sewing
Close up of a laughably simple metal key tied with string to the handle of the bentwood case.
A gleaming wooden bentwood case for a Singer sewing machine, sitting on a very crowded desk, with a plastic Janome sewing machine on its left. Scissors and thread are on a pegboard on the back right.
The beautifully arched end of the case with the key in a keyhole near the bottom
Looking inside the bentwood case, you can see the black metal strap securing the handle from the underside, the tiny table flap secured to the inside of the case, and two wire frames for holding accessories in storage.
#sewing #sewingmachine

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