Monday, August 19, 2019

Pattern editing

Hello,
I've had a hectic and also a quite productive summer (at least when it comes to sewing...) and my sewing machine is definitely showing signs of ageing, maybe she just wants to retire? (I don't know), so these past couple of weeks I've sewn a  couple of dresses. One is from cotton jersey (the striped one) and the shirtdress is a cotton fabric one.

 I combined two patterns for the shirt dress (a regular shirt pattern and a shirt dress), the dress is almost perfect but not quite what I was aiming for. I messed up the buttons and the sleeve placket didn't turn out so well (I don't even want to show a picture, I made them the wrong way).  And I didn't have enough black or orange buttons that would have been good with the fabric. I had already done so many simple (and stupid mistakes) and I ended up using white rose buttons.



I'm quite strict with myself when it comes to sewing clothes, if the result is not to my standards I won't wear it, even if the garment I made probably is still wearable. I dislike it if the stripes don't match or the sleeves are off and so on. I've been told not to be so strict and just enjoy my hobby, and guess I need to learn how to not be a total perfectionist when it comes to sewing... But I'm still looking for the perfect shirt dress pattern...


Friday, August 2, 2019

Summer update

Hi dear readers,


My summer break is almost over and I'm so glad I've had time to do some knitting and sewing. I think I've become more and more a type of person that does handicrafts during a short period of time. These past couple of weeks I've been sewing so much that I though I broke my machine (but thank God it still works well). I've had that sewing machine (Pfaff select 1538) for about 13 yrs now and I hope it would still work properly for couple more yrs. I gotit  after graduating from elementary school and it has probably been one of the best graduation gifts I've ever received from my parents (so good sewing machine is a good tip for graduating cratf enthusiastics)
I've had an extreme energy boost to finish some unfinished sewing work I've had around my house for probably a year or so. I finished some toddler/baby clothes and a dress from viscose and a skirt from cotton fabric.


We moved to a smaller apartmant a while back and our home gets quite messy while sewing, and I just had to buy new fabrics from Summer sale. But if you get fabric for 5€/meter and have time to walk around the shop,who doesn't end up buying quite a few meters of nice fabric? I bought these colours to make some dresses for fall. I hope to get them started soon. Now I just have to figure out a place to store them and draw/cut pattern pieces.


We also made a trip to eastern Finland I had time to knit in in the car. I knitted a panda, all in all I'm quite satisfied with the result, but somehow I messed up the face. I did the decrease rows for nose like I would do for a mouse... But it is cute anyway, next time have adjust the decreases or do a separate nose.

I bough that cute jersey in the picture from Christmas sale, I got small pieces for 10€ ( I mean really small pieces) and I had to make sleeves from other fabric.
That penguin fabric was just so cute I had to buy it and I'm so happy I was able to use it. I bought the fabric pieces without checking the size first (I know that was stupid) and I had to think really hard on how to fit the pattern pieces to get back and front pieces from fabric. I still have a piece of seal jersey that I haven't used yet, that will probably end up being a hat.