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UttaRetch
Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 13:17:54 PM »
I've
seen
sewn one seam of a GIANT circle skirt and want to put in the textile bag. It's too damn hot and I am dripping with sweat that runs into my eyes.
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DementedFairy
Birmingham UK
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Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 13:22:10 PM »
Stop throwing stuff away woman! Give it a break and go back to it later x I can only sew in the evenings lately when things cool down a bit
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Catllar
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Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 13:36:25 PM »
I'm not sewing at all - got a dress on Doris waiting to be finished, another one in bits on the table and ironing board. They're going to have to wait till the weather breaks a bit.
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dolcevita
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Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 15:22:06 PM »
I get hot just flicking through my dressmaking magazines at the moment. Very little sewing going on in my loft in the current temperatures.
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Bodgeitandscarper
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Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 15:42:24 PM »
Now I've got my new big fan-on-a-stand I thought I could cut out a new top, but then realised that it would blow the pattern away, so I won't bother moving from my armchair on front of the fan. It's just far, far too hot to sew.
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UttaRetch
Re: Enough already
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Reply #5 on:
August 07, 2018, 16:31:28 PM »
@Francesca
: I do have a standing fan, but it's heavy and awkward to carry downstairs where I have set up my sewing machine on the dining room table.
I have sewn up the other side and although I planned on trying an invisible zip, will put in a ordinary one BY HAND. Because of my miscalculation, the waist is enormous and I have to work out how to make it small enough to fit my waist. I think I will just improvise pleats.
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DementedFairy
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Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 16:37:37 PM »
I have too many tissue pattern pieces and bits of ribbon lying around to risk a fan in my sewing room!
I just tried to channel some mojo by sticking two patterns together, now I'm printing some more of the ones I succumbed to most recently. Oh dear, I must get sewing!
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Fiona M
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Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 16:40:09 PM »
I suppose elastication is out of the question?
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UttaRetch
Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 16:41:41 PM »
I must get sewing too. I live for New York on 16 August and have three skirts to make for the trip. I thought I had a zip that would do, but no, of course not. My fabric stall lady only had very long ones and sewing shop staff are so slow and not very helpful. I was also boiling by then and in a bad mood having earlier spent 45 minutes in the back.
@Fiona M
: absolutely.
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UttaRetch
Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 20:19:15 PM »
The zip will go on one side and I am just going to make a large centre fold in the front and back.
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DementedFairy
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Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 20:20:43 PM »
Quote from: UttaRetch on August 07, 2018, 16:41:41 PM
My fabric stall lady only had very long ones
@Fiona M
: absolutely.
I only buy really long ones these days and chop them to size. Less fuss!
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UttaRetch
Re: Enough already
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August 07, 2018, 20:24:21 PM »
The fabric stall lady doesn't do Wednesdays, so I a going to bite the bullet and go into the shop.
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sdBev
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Re: Enough already
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Reply #12 on:
August 16, 2018, 01:59:46 AM »
There is a time for sewing and a time for sitting in the easy chair in front of the A/C. Think now is the time for the later.
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UttaRetch
Re: Enough already
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August 16, 2018, 08:37:27 AM »
@sdBev
: all done now. If you are interested, you can see my holiday skirts
here
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UttaRetch
Re: Enough already
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August 24, 2018, 21:01:10 PM »
Excuse the 'slack Alice' bra strap in one of the photos.
I am glad that I took my wrap tops because the off the shoulder top drove me mad and I only wore one. Charity shop here I come
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