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Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18

SkoutSews

Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« on: October 15, 2017, 21:34:00 PM »
I've spent most of this afternoon cutting out, my least favourite part of the sewing process.  No wait.  I hate cutting out.  I appreciate its importance, but it's pants.  Whizzing away with the machine joining bits together is far more fun.  Perhaps that's why I'm not, and never will be, a proper sewist (or whatever we are meant to call ourselves, we hobby dressmakers).

For this reason I decided to have a big session with the scissors and give myself three garments to make up.  The first is another Jazzy Jacquard dress from the 5/2016 Ottobre mag.  My first version worked out well and even drew compliments, despite being a bit of a hash.  It's a comfortable, useful dress so I'm having another go (hoping to match the side seams this time) using a navy blue Ikat printed polyester jersey.  This fabric has a lot more stretch than the previous version, which was a jacquard 'crazy paving' design.

The second was from the same Ottobre issue, the Vignette shirt.  I'm using a Minerva cotton print, a light green with a large off-white daisy print and a bit of texture to it. It's nice and drapey, I like it.

Third, still in my quest for the perfect shirt pattern, Butterick 5526, in a cotton lawn, a Liberty look-a-likey. It might actually be Liberty, but I discovered the print was just ever so slightly off the grainline, so possibly a second. Nice autumnal colours though.

There is a theme here.  All of these blasted fabrics needed to be matched.  So single thickness cutting, grainline slightly off for the lawn, lots of muttering and cursing!  Also I first had to adjust the shirt patterns for an FBA.  The Ottobre pattern had already had the treatment.  It all took ages and I came very close to cutting two left fronts for the Butterick (nearly forgot to flip) which would have been a disaster as fabric was tight.

On the plus side, I have plenty of sewing ahead of me with no nasty cutting out for a while.  A valuable lesson has been learned.  Only self-coloured fabrics for me for the next few projects!

I have a horrible premonition that, despite all my care, the pattern matches will end up out by enough to show that I tried to get it right, but failed. This will look worse than if I hadn't made the attempt!

Onward and upward, I learn a bit more with each garment.

Acorn

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2017, 21:38:16 PM »
You've made me do a quick mental check of my upcoming projects... nope, no pattern matching.  Plains, narrow, wobbly, vertical stripes and vague patterns.

I share your hatred of cutting out.  Cutting out the pattern is the worst, the material not so bad.
I might look as though I'm talking to you, but inside my head I'm sewing.

UttaRetch

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2017, 21:43:02 PM »
Hate cutting out too.  My back can no longer cope with extended periods of bending over a too low cutting table and this one of the reasons I stopped sewing.

SkoutSews

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2017, 21:46:36 PM »
Ha!  I'm not alone then.  UR, I also have backache this evening.

Tamnymore

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2017, 21:51:11 PM »
I cut out on the dining room table which means I have to clear up.when someone wants to eat a meal. I quite like cutting out. As I do the odd thing in tartan I often have a bit of pattern matching to do which I also quite like even though it is time consuming.
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UttaRetch

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2017, 08:04:25 AM »
I only have a four room flat and all my sewing stuff has to be stowed again.  I got fed up with dragging

my improvised cutting table from behind the sofa and then having to clear everything away at the end of each session.

Francesca

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2017, 09:37:50 AM »
I hate cutting too. I need DF to come and cut all my projects for me.

In fact I have thought about cutting everything out for a "season" and jus sewing through them. Problem is I need to do so much adjusting (usually at least two toiles for a woven) that I'd forget what I need to change.

Missie

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2017, 09:56:49 AM »
And another hates cutting out!  I wish I had DF fervour in doing so.  I quite like the idea of doing a few in one hit, but by the time I'd have toiled them, I'd be bored and wouldn't cut them out and would then forget what I'd done!

Gernella

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2017, 10:16:31 AM »
I only have a four room flat and all my sewing stuff has to be stowed again.  I got fed up with dragging

my improvised cutting table from behind the sofa and then having to clear everything away at the end of each session.

Wow, I love that but I can see your point, takes up a lot of space.  I currently use a large desk but since it's butted against the wall, cutting nearest is okay but furthest is a bind.  I do take my shoes off and I am only 5ft 3 but it is still back aching for any length of time which is why I don't wast much time cutting out.
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dolcevita

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2017, 10:59:50 AM »
Good luck with the projects!  I love the Ottobre jazzy jacquard pattern - I've made it twice now with a third one planned.  It doesn't take much longer than a t-shirt and, as you say, is comfy and easy to wear (I'm wearing one as I type!).

I don't mind cutting out so much; fusing interfacing is my most disliked task.  I dislike it almost as much as housework.

SkoutSews

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2017, 11:18:52 AM »
DV, fusing interfacing is high on my hate list too. That's still to do - maybe this afternoon when I get back from the dentist.
I might start with the dress, it's an easy make and I've done one before, so it should be straightforward. Famous last words!

sewmuchmore

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2017, 18:13:03 PM »
Cutting out the  :pattern: is my least favorite job
It's not easy being this perfekt

Janet

sewingj

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2017, 19:37:39 PM »
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Acorn

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2017, 19:44:50 PM »
I'm trying to find us a new dining table to replace our old gateleg that only really sits two people comfortably because of the leg system.

I haven't admitted to anyone that the prime requisite is that it should be good for cutting out...  :devil:  I'll put a pvc cloth on it to protect the surface.  :angel:
I might look as though I'm talking to you, but inside my head I'm sewing.

BrendaP

Re: Butterick 5526, Ottobre 5/2016 12 & 18
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2017, 20:17:01 PM »
I actually like cutting out :snip: though my back doesn't.  It's especially good if I can cut something from less than the pattern envelope says I need. :fabric:

I too use the dining table; fully extended it's 7'7" x 3'5", but I do have to be careful and try not to scratch it.  Little bits and patchwork pieces, especially if rotary cut are done on the big desk in my craft/sewing room which has a large self healing mat always on it.
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