Soo... Your sewing away and your machine starts to make an odd noise and feel a little weird when sewing do you...
A. Carry on regardless and hope that "All is well"
or
B. Immediately stop sewing and check it out. Re-thread the machine and grab a piece of scrap fabric to test it out
If your answer is B well done, your a better person than I think most of us are! :)
If your answer is A then your probably going to end up with something like this
Eeek what a mess, Its a good job that it is on the inside and the top stitching looks fine otherwise I would be screaming right now.
What are you making do I hear you say, well I'm attempting the Sew Weekly Pillowcase challenge, ok I know its late but I had a bit a of faff trying to find some funky pillow cases. I admitted defeat with this when I found these
EXTRA LARGE!!! Win! So I decided to attempt a shirt out of them (they are humongous!) and I'm a little concerned about how easily they came apart. I mean I pulled at a thread and it just unraveled on me... Worrying!
Showing posts with label Note to Self. Show all posts
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Monday, 13 June 2011
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Ginger is done
Well I finished on Thursday but that's not the point now is it?
I 'm rather pleased with it but I'm still deciding if I should add pockets to it or not.
The lowdown
Pattern - Ginger by Colette Patterns
Fabric - Some crazy Royal Blue polyester stuff from the stash (£2.50 p/m??), The pretty floral cotton from the London Dress (probably about £1 for the amount used)
Notions - Piping cord (stash), Invisible Zip (£1.35)
Total cost - £1.35 actually spent to be able to make it but it probably actually cost me around £8
Time to make - including pattern adjustment and mock up skirt around 6 hours
I was a little dubious about how easy this skirt would be to put together at first since everybody has been raving about it, seriously they can't all be right! Well consider me proved wrong, it is easy. Aside from the pattern adjustment I had to make, which was made a gazillion times easier with Sunni's directions, it went together rather well. Although it took me 6 hours to make from start to finish, it won't actually take me half that time when I make it again since the fit was fine with the mock up I don't need to do any other adjustments to the pattern, yay!
Oh and Note to Self: if you want to use the crazy polyester stuff again remember that it doesn't like to iron during construction of garments!
I 'm rather pleased with it but I'm still deciding if I should add pockets to it or not.
The lowdown
Pattern - Ginger by Colette Patterns
Fabric - Some crazy Royal Blue polyester stuff from the stash (£2.50 p/m??), The pretty floral cotton from the London Dress (probably about £1 for the amount used)
Notions - Piping cord (stash), Invisible Zip (£1.35)
Total cost - £1.35 actually spent to be able to make it but it probably actually cost me around £8
Time to make - including pattern adjustment and mock up skirt around 6 hours
I was a little dubious about how easy this skirt would be to put together at first since everybody has been raving about it, seriously they can't all be right! Well consider me proved wrong, it is easy. Aside from the pattern adjustment I had to make, which was made a gazillion times easier with Sunni's directions, it went together rather well. Although it took me 6 hours to make from start to finish, it won't actually take me half that time when I make it again since the fit was fine with the mock up I don't need to do any other adjustments to the pattern, yay!
Oh and Note to Self: if you want to use the crazy polyester stuff again remember that it doesn't like to iron during construction of garments!
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