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In the wardrobe / Re: Style Arc Roxy Shirt Finished
« on: July 15, 2019, 13:48:15 PM »
bumping this back up as I've just finished two Roxys.

First one was an 18 (right size as per pattern) and apart from lengthening body and sleeves by 5cm I made no adjustments.

Result: just about wearable, but def not oversized, in fact the slimmest of slim fits.  I'd make it like that again if that was what I wanted, but only in a stretch fabric. And I wasn't sold on the bum-freezer tails although I liked them in the drawing.

Second go: made a size 20.  Converted back to a lined yoke and integrated the tails into a single back piece.  Didn't have enough scrap fabric for sleeves so it's a summer vest type thing.  Much much better, so I'll be using this for a proper white shirt next which was the point of the whole exercise.

Side note: the sleeve placket pieces are not what's shown in the SA instructions, which have a single placket piece.  I'll go for the latter next time.

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The Haberdashery / Re: Repurposing
« on: July 19, 2018, 00:41:14 AM »
I use an expired debit card for turning up hems. I can line up the fabric edge with various bits (long number/ magnetic strip/  expiry date/ logo etc) depending on the depth I want, I can press fabric over it without it melting (so far) and it’s small and bendy enough for most jobs.  “Your flexible friend” in fact, for those who remember that old advert.

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A Good Yarn / Re: Life is too short for this
« on: June 12, 2018, 14:39:02 PM »
Yes I saw that too and had a silent guffaw about it.

Strikes me there are a lot of cool young people out there who don’t remember having to knit a dishcloth in primary school. If they did they’d treat this, and the accompanying instructions for knitting your own tea towels, with the disdain it deserves. Even if they are in organic hemp yarn, hand spun by an off duty tech startup entrepreneur on a wheel they built themselves ...

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A Good Yarn / Re: Stylish sleek patterns - do they exist
« on: June 10, 2018, 23:31:59 PM »
Like you I want clean lines and no frills. I’ve made a number of things by the following designers - all have a big following on Ravelry:

Veera Valimaki
Joji Locatelli
Maison Rililie

Also have a look at Purl Soho? - they have a lovely free sweatshirt sweater pattern that I’m about to use a 2nd time.

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In the wardrobe / Re: Another fine mess just avoided
« on: May 24, 2018, 19:34:59 PM »
Good work!  I had a coffee-fuelled morning of contemplation myself when I'd finished my moto jacket (Style Arc Ziggi) about how to do the snaps.  In the end i chickened out and left them off altogether, and until I read this I'd completely forgotten they were ever an option, since the jacket looks just fine (to me) without them.

If I ever make another one - which I well might, I love love love my stretch fake leather one but am wondering about lime green scuba for a laugh - I'll be braver and go for it

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Patterns Discussion / Re: Sticking pdf patterns together - help!
« on: May 17, 2018, 15:14:31 PM »
Another glue sticker here.  Plus a 'cut as you go' convert. Print in greyscale and use a 'light' setting if you can to save ink.

No-one's mentioned the actual paper you use I don't think.  Personally I reuse anything that's been printed one side only.  Taking up sewing again has finally seen off the huge pile of scrap paper I've accumulated.  So my PDF patterns are a glorious mishmash of paper in all colours and when I turn the pieces over I am reminded (as I'm just about to jack in work) I will never again have to come home from an event with 60 sheets of peach coloured A4 containing feedback forms from social workers in Liverpool or nurses in Port Talbot about what's wrong with what I've just presented to them ...

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Patterns Discussion / Re: Securing Patterns
« on: May 12, 2018, 01:59:50 AM »
My attitude to cutting out has been transformed by the revelation late in life that I could trace around pattern pieces and then cut without the need for pins to distort the fabric and tear the pattern pieces.

I cut out on the floor (no other option) - lay out pieces, draw round them with something suitably non draggy ( a friction pen for wovens, a felt tip dotted around the outline of the piece on knits and my ultra glam pound shop metallic silver Sharpie on black fabric), remove the pattern piece, then cut out aiming to keep to the inside of the pen marks.  Any bits of pen left can be trimmed as you go.

My pattern weights are usually tins of sardines as they're nice and flat but if we've eaten them all then I just use the nearest handful of paperback books.

I can't imagine ever going back to pins again.

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Patterns Discussion / Re: Pattern Instructions....
« on: May 12, 2018, 01:45:40 AM »
I'm just making a pair of Thread Theory Jedediah trousers (I'm not going to call them pants for anyone) for Mr P. While the pattern itself is well crafted (so far) the instructions are terrible, and if I've noticed then they really must be since normally I'm a very compliant follower.

For a start it suggests you need 3m of fabric for a pair of trousers because the assumption is you will just stack fronts and backs in the same direction (as if your fabric had a nap).  Then the order is all wrong - do a plain side seam first and then a felled inseam, so you have to manage topstitching along a tube instead of a flat piece.  And the fly front instructions are incomprehensible to me.

What really irksome is that several people have pointed these things out on the sew along blog posts and the response in each case has been to the effect of "oh yeah you're probably right, we've just always done it this way".  So how about changing the instructions then?

I've only just started sewing again after a whole bunch of years and I am enjoying discovering new stuff and exploring the possibilities of indie patterns, but sometimes these people don't do themselves justice.  I'm just glad that in this case I've had the nous to stop before it's too late and do things in a more logical way.

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Fun with Fabric / Re: Stink!
« on: May 09, 2018, 13:41:13 PM »
Instant flashback to the 70s when I had a beige anorak (off the market - thanks Mum) which smelt of fish despite frequent airing and washing from the moment it came out of its plastic wrapping to the day about 3 years later when I was finally released from its stinky clutches by growing out of it.

Probably polyester, definitely revolting.  :fish:

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Hello from Scotland
« on: May 06, 2018, 00:02:54 AM »
Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome!

 :drink:

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Hello from Scotland
« on: May 01, 2018, 20:41:07 PM »
Quote from: Tamnymore on May 01, 2018, 19:57:57 PM
Welcome. Are you near the sewing emporia of Glasgow?

Fraid not - east coast/ Borders. Occasional safaris to Glasgow only!

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Hi, I'm new... / Hello from Scotland
« on: May 01, 2018, 18:08:09 PM »
Hello everyone.

As seems to be the case for others here, I’ve just started sewing again after a long break. Things have moved on while I’ve been away!

So I’m relearning old stuff and trying new things - I’m enjoying getting into sewing things I might actually enjoy wearing (swimwear, bras, knits) as opposed to the sad and generally ill-fitting box shaped dresses and skirts I turned out in the 1980s and 90s because I didn’t fit into high street fashion.

I’m looking forward to picking up new ideas and inspiration from these forums!


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