I was just about to cut out a pair of shorts from McCall's 6328, and realised I've somehow managed to lose piece 12 - the back yoke! So I was just wondering if any of my readers happen to have this pattern and would be willing to scan that piece of the pattern and email it to me... that would be really great!
Thank you in advance, and hopefully I can either find a piece of the pattern or make one up so I can get stuck into these shorts!
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Monday, 17 December 2012
Package bonanza!
Over the last two weeks, I've received the most post I think I ever have, aside from birthdays! Here's my little collection, three packages from three lovely ladies!
From Kat over at Petticoats and Peplums, I have my Pay It Forward gift. She's made me a crocheted (I think??) pincushion, purple on one side and green on the other, and also sent a set of adorable heart shaped buttons and a thread tin with a lovely vintage lady on the front.
Next, this amazing polkadotted knit fabric and a copy of Tiramisu from StephC at 3 Hours Past! I won this one in a massive giveaway she was doing, and I count myself very lucky to have won. Can't wait to sew up this dress! I wonder if the direction of the dots will give a similar effect to the stripes in the pattern illustration... that will be interesting to experiment with, I've not sewn with anything polkadotted before!
And lastly, a treat to myself after finishing exams, from Sarah at OhhhLulu (her blog is wonderful, and I would love one of everything from her Etsy shop!!) - the Bon Voyage underwear set! No pictures of these on me, so you'll have to take my word that they fit perfectly and feel amazing on - definitely recommended!!
All in all, I'm counting myself very lucky this week before Christmas! And once again, I want to say a huge thankyou to Kat, Steph, and Sarah for my wonderful packages.
From Kat over at Petticoats and Peplums, I have my Pay It Forward gift. She's made me a crocheted (I think??) pincushion, purple on one side and green on the other, and also sent a set of adorable heart shaped buttons and a thread tin with a lovely vintage lady on the front.
Next, this amazing polkadotted knit fabric and a copy of Tiramisu from StephC at 3 Hours Past! I won this one in a massive giveaway she was doing, and I count myself very lucky to have won. Can't wait to sew up this dress! I wonder if the direction of the dots will give a similar effect to the stripes in the pattern illustration... that will be interesting to experiment with, I've not sewn with anything polkadotted before!
And lastly, a treat to myself after finishing exams, from Sarah at OhhhLulu (her blog is wonderful, and I would love one of everything from her Etsy shop!!) - the Bon Voyage underwear set! No pictures of these on me, so you'll have to take my word that they fit perfectly and feel amazing on - definitely recommended!!
Friday, 23 November 2012
Sneaky preview!
Just thought I'd post a quick preview of what I've been working on since exams finished!
Here's me and my friend Kim out for breakfast this morning before she heads back to Darwin, me with a slightly dopey face on (I may switch out this photo if it turned out better on her camera!) and my new circle skirt with little anchors.
Full post about this skirt hopefully coming soon, when I can convince my sister to help me take photos!
Full post about this skirt hopefully coming soon, when I can convince my sister to help me take photos!
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Checking in...
Just a quick note to say yes, I am still alive! Just heading into exams now - 12 more sleeps until it's over and I can STOP STUDYING for 2 months!!
I have big plans for what I want to do in terms of sewing for this holidays, and possibly a big exciting project lined up - though not as big and exciting as Natalie's! (Side note: even though it's been like six months, I still go to type in splatastic into my URL bar to find your blog, and then wonder where all of the new posts have gone - super smart right here!)
In a related topic - does anybody know where I can buy sequinned fabric with the sequins sewn on, online? Preferably gold or bluey but I'm not going to be too picky, because at the moment I can't find any anywhere! And do you have any tips for sewing with said fabric? What I've gathered so far is to keep the sequins away from the seamlines, get a denim needle just in case and prepare to break a few, and pick something with as few seamlines and darts as possible - but any other information you can give me would be greatly appreciated!
I have big plans for what I want to do in terms of sewing for this holidays, and possibly a big exciting project lined up - though not as big and exciting as Natalie's! (Side note: even though it's been like six months, I still go to type in splatastic into my URL bar to find your blog, and then wonder where all of the new posts have gone - super smart right here!)
In a related topic - does anybody know where I can buy sequinned fabric with the sequins sewn on, online? Preferably gold or bluey but I'm not going to be too picky, because at the moment I can't find any anywhere! And do you have any tips for sewing with said fabric? What I've gathered so far is to keep the sequins away from the seamlines, get a denim needle just in case and prepare to break a few, and pick something with as few seamlines and darts as possible - but any other information you can give me would be greatly appreciated!
Monday, 1 October 2012
Hundreds of Apples dress
Here it is, my first project all semester! Sorry about the lateness, I know in my next post I said I'd post this the next day. I've been waiting for a day when this horrible forehead acne breakout I've been having settles down, but it doesn't look like it's going to, so I'll just go with it!
I'd been eyeballing this material at Spotlight for a while, but for months and months and months it was on the $15 a metre table, and I decided that even though I love it, I don't love it quite that much!! These last holidays, when I was doing A Christmas Carol, we were actually there for another reason entirely and I spotted my apple material on sale for $5 a metre - so of course, I just HAD to have it!
I also had McCall's M6503 sitting around in my pattern stash, and I have been itching for another dress in this style, so it was a match made in heaven. Interesting story: I was going to time how long this dress took me, but I realised when it took me three hours to cut out the pattern and the material and mark it all that the figure was going to be ridiculously huge!!
I made view D, with the standup collar, pleated skirt, and sleeves. I also added piping along the lines of the collar and the waistband, which was an adventure - I've never done that before, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! I got little wooden buttons to close the front of the dress, but I'm not entirely sold on them - what do you think? I've been considering switching them out for some self-cover buttons with red satin, to go with the piping, but I think that might be a bit TOO matchy.
I even did some tricky stuff at the junction of the collar - though I tried to be all artsy with my photo and it didn't turn out properly...
I'm really proud of how the inside turned out, although it is a bit of a mish-mash of seam finishing techniques - both proper ones and ones I sort of made up as I went along! The right side is all french seamed, including the pocket - I tried this tutorial that I found on Pinterest, and it worked wonderfully! The pocket pattern was borrowed from Butterick B5317, which I've used three times to make (as yet unblogged) dresses for myself and my sisters. The pocket is only on the right hand side, because I only usually use the right pocket in my dresses/skirts - though it would be good to have it on the other side too! Does anybody know how to add a pocket to a seam with an invisible zipper in it?
The left side has this strange sort of seam finish that I sort of made up myself - it's kind of like Hong Kong seaming I think, except it's done with double fold bias tape that I just folded over the edge and stitched once. Anyway, all of the edges are tucked in, so that's nice.
The shoulder seams are done in a similar way, and then stitched down pointing towards the back.
I used the same technique for the sleeve/armhole edges as I did for my Style Print dress, flat felled around a curve. This time I had a bit of trouble making the edges sit properly, so I basted the seam twice - once straight after I had trimmed the inside (bodice) edge to half its size, I folded the sleeve edge over to the seam line, and once basting it into its final position. I then sewed the seam on the machine as usual, and removed the basting, and it worked perfectly!
The only change I made to the pattern was to make an 8 at the shoulders/bust tapering out to a 10 at the waistline and skirt, which seemed to work perfectly! Anyway, that's about all of note for this dress, so have a lovely day and thank you for visiting!
I also had McCall's M6503 sitting around in my pattern stash, and I have been itching for another dress in this style, so it was a match made in heaven. Interesting story: I was going to time how long this dress took me, but I realised when it took me three hours to cut out the pattern and the material and mark it all that the figure was going to be ridiculously huge!!
I'm really proud of how the inside turned out, although it is a bit of a mish-mash of seam finishing techniques - both proper ones and ones I sort of made up as I went along! The right side is all french seamed, including the pocket - I tried this tutorial that I found on Pinterest, and it worked wonderfully! The pocket pattern was borrowed from Butterick B5317, which I've used three times to make (as yet unblogged) dresses for myself and my sisters. The pocket is only on the right hand side, because I only usually use the right pocket in my dresses/skirts - though it would be good to have it on the other side too! Does anybody know how to add a pocket to a seam with an invisible zipper in it?
The left side has this strange sort of seam finish that I sort of made up myself - it's kind of like Hong Kong seaming I think, except it's done with double fold bias tape that I just folded over the edge and stitched once. Anyway, all of the edges are tucked in, so that's nice.
The shoulder seams are done in a similar way, and then stitched down pointing towards the back.
I used the same technique for the sleeve/armhole edges as I did for my Style Print dress, flat felled around a curve. This time I had a bit of trouble making the edges sit properly, so I basted the seam twice - once straight after I had trimmed the inside (bodice) edge to half its size, I folded the sleeve edge over to the seam line, and once basting it into its final position. I then sewed the seam on the machine as usual, and removed the basting, and it worked perfectly!
The only change I made to the pattern was to make an 8 at the shoulders/bust tapering out to a 10 at the waistline and skirt, which seemed to work perfectly! Anyway, that's about all of note for this dress, so have a lovely day and thank you for visiting!
Friday, 28 September 2012
Quick update...
Just stopping in really quickly to say, no, I haven't dropped off the face of the planet! My plans for sewing during the semester fell over because I am nowhere near organised enough to do that!
But now that it's lecture recess, I've been working on a new dress - it's about 90% done, and tomorrow I just have to put in the zipper, hem it, sew down the waistband facing, and put the buttons on then I'm done! So I'll be back with some pretty pictures of that soon :)
But now that it's lecture recess, I've been working on a new dress - it's about 90% done, and tomorrow I just have to put in the zipper, hem it, sew down the waistband facing, and put the buttons on then I'm done! So I'll be back with some pretty pictures of that soon :)
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Back again... sort of!
So, it has come to my attention that it's been two months since I last posted! And I haven't been doing nothing over these uni holidays.
In the last six weeks I have...
However, I was a bit sad when uni went back... because this is the list of things I wanted to make over the holidays, written at the beginning:
And just to conclude with a picture, so this isn't just a big block of text, here's a photo from the production! You can see me on the far right.
For anybody who is familiar with the story (or interesed), I was Fred's Wife (yes, that was my actual character's name! We later re-named her Margaret so people could stop calling her Mrs Fred :P). This scene is at a Christmas party Fred and Margaret are throwing, during the scenes with the Ghost of Christmas Present. From left to right we have Fred (Scrooge's nephew), three party guests (one of whom is behind the pole), the Ghost of Christmas Present, Topper (who is one of the Charity Gentlemen, and Fred's friend), and me, Margaret/Mrs Fred!
I'll have to ask around the cast to see if there are any other pictures of me from on the night, because I can't find a single other one of me! In any case, I had some adventures with the tops, so I'll definitely be posting about them at some point!
In the last six weeks I have...
- Had my wisdom teeth out
- Taught myself to knit in the round and finished a beret while sitting on the couch feeling sorry for myself after having my teeth out
- FINALLY cut and sewn my choir dress - still needs hemming because the horsehair braid didn't work out with my material
- Sat and looked at my petticoat material, read the tutorial about ten times, and yet have not cut or sewn it
- Was in a production of A Christmas Carol put on by one of my friends from uni - I was the stage manager and an actor, as well as getting a battlefield promotion to lighting designer and rehearsal lighting operator when the guy who was going to do it was unable to do the show
- For the production, made two skirts, one overskirt, two tops, and little arm ruffly things - hopefully pictures to come soon!
- Am half-way through knitting a beanie for my sister
However, I was a bit sad when uni went back... because this is the list of things I wanted to make over the holidays, written at the beginning:
- Choir dress + petticoat
- Nautical mini-wardrobe
- Fix zippers on owl dress and tulip skirt
- Start on pay it forward presents
- More tops - clinical and some casual
- Fix hem on green skirt
And just to conclude with a picture, so this isn't just a big block of text, here's a photo from the production! You can see me on the far right.
This photo was taken by my friend Nim's parents, on the Friday night performance.
For anybody who is familiar with the story (or interesed), I was Fred's Wife (yes, that was my actual character's name! We later re-named her Margaret so people could stop calling her Mrs Fred :P). This scene is at a Christmas party Fred and Margaret are throwing, during the scenes with the Ghost of Christmas Present. From left to right we have Fred (Scrooge's nephew), three party guests (one of whom is behind the pole), the Ghost of Christmas Present, Topper (who is one of the Charity Gentlemen, and Fred's friend), and me, Margaret/Mrs Fred!
I'll have to ask around the cast to see if there are any other pictures of me from on the night, because I can't find a single other one of me! In any case, I had some adventures with the tops, so I'll definitely be posting about them at some point!
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