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ickaimp has been stealing the awesome in my house with the banner painting. Cause my sewing has taken a dive. I got my studio converted from guest room to studio on Tuesday and then finished up 3 pairs of pj pants that I had intended for Christmas 2011. Yes, 2011. Le sigh. Well, the one's for mel turned out just fine I think (he hasn't put them on yet so maybe they are also jacked) but the pair for me is too short in the crotch and too big in the waist band. Sighs. I can fix it. I just need to undo the elastic waist band and resew it smaller and not have it fold over so much.
On saturdaylferiongave me awesome advice to cut out a prototype dress for my new hangerrock pattern since I was limited by a 25" piece wide of fabric that makes my standard pattern not quite fit efficiently. And since my new dress is out of handwoven fabric I'm really glad I did do the prototype out of linen since I CAN'T ADD. I'm FOUR INCHES TOO SMALL in the chest on this dress. **HEADDESK***
Le Sigh.
So, tonight I will be reworking the prototype by adding in fabric and then reworking my pj's to have some success before working on the fighting tunic and my final dress. I hope.
I will have some help this weekend on things thanks toswordmage which is good cause man am I running out of time quickly.
Oh, well, we need to fail to succeed properly.
So to succeed I want to point you to this article on why you an your press iron should be the best friends ever for sewing. I had not done a 4 step process to pressing seams, I had only done a 2 step. This is in valuable and really shows why its really important.
A Word from the Pressinatrix.
ickaimp has been stealing the awesome in my house with the banner painting. Cause my sewing has taken a dive. I got my studio converted from guest room to studio on Tuesday and then finished up 3 pairs of pj pants that I had intended for Christmas 2011. Yes, 2011. Le sigh. Well, the one's for mel turned out just fine I think (he hasn't put them on yet so maybe they are also jacked) but the pair for me is too short in the crotch and too big in the waist band. Sighs. I can fix it. I just need to undo the elastic waist band and resew it smaller and not have it fold over so much. On saturday
lferiongave me awesome advice to cut out a prototype dress for my new hangerrock pattern since I was limited by a 25" piece wide of fabric that makes my standard pattern not quite fit efficiently. And since my new dress is out of handwoven fabric I'm really glad I did do the prototype out of linen since I CAN'T ADD. I'm FOUR INCHES TOO SMALL in the chest on this dress. **HEADDESK***Le Sigh.
So, tonight I will be reworking the prototype by adding in fabric and then reworking my pj's to have some success before working on the fighting tunic and my final dress. I hope.
I will have some help this weekend on things thanks to
swordmage which is good cause man am I running out of time quickly.Oh, well, we need to fail to succeed properly.
So to succeed I want to point you to this article on why you an your press iron should be the best friends ever for sewing. I had not done a 4 step process to pressing seams, I had only done a 2 step. This is in valuable and really shows why its really important.
A Word from the Pressinatrix.
