After participating in the past Fall for Cotton, I couldn’t stop myself from joining in Spring for Cotton. I’ve recently bought some beautiful cotton fabrics from Stoffamstueck and I was planning on making some vintage inspired dresses, so this came just in the right time. As I’m planning to make …
Tag: sewing
Completed: 1947 Tiki Dress
I never expected to participate in the Vintage Pattern Pledge. Sure, it’s a wonderful initiative and I love vintage designs, but my luck buying vintage patterns was not always the best. First, I can’t find them locally, so I have to buy online, and the times I’ve done it the …
My first pair of jeans: a wearable muslin
Sorry for the radio silence, but between the jeans breaking my machine and one of my medications being raised, I’ve been a little bit off last week. The jeans took a bit longer than expected and they fit worse than expected too. The change in the medication makes me nauseous …
A couple of things about sewing machines maintenance
As you know, my machine broke last week when I was sewing my first pair of handmade jeans. I was heartbroken because I was not sure if I was going to be able to finish these jeans and because my machine had to go away for repair for the first …
Watching the GBSB outside the UK
We’re watching the Great British Sewing Bee series 3 and enjoying the fact that there are more men that in previous occasions and they seem quite competent (I’ve never thought Koen would like this show but he loves it). We watched previous seasons on Youtube, but this time we didn’t …
Denim killed my sewing machine
My progress on my jeans was slow but more or less steady. Last week I didn’t have a lot of time for sewing because Koen’s sister was here visiting, but I could still get some short random moments to stitch here and there. I used part of my lunch break …
Completed: the skirt that took forever
I started this skirt more than two months ago. What was going to be a very simple half circle skirt turned into something that almost did not get finished. If you’ve seen the pictures of my garments on my dress form for the last couple of months, you’ve noticed a …
Colors online
I usually avoid trying new yarns unless I’ve read very good comments on them. One spends so many hours working on a garment, stitch by stitch, to have in the end a horrid result, pilling, a bleeding dye and other knitter nightmares. I think pilling is one of the worst …
There’ll be jeans
After a couple of years of experimenting, it seems this year I’m trying to sew what I need at this moment in my wardrobe. I needed some tops other than my t-shirts, I made blouses. I have two old pairs of jeans, and I need new ones, then I make …
I’m joining the Vintage Pattern Pledge for 2015
I enjoyed seeing what others have made last year for the Vintage Pattern Pledge, but I didn’t join due to my limited experience and based on how difficult is to get vintage patterns on this corner of the world. I always die of envy when I read other people’s stories …