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The Emporia => In the wardrobe => Topic started by: snoozi soozi on August 21, 2020, 11:39:16 AM
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Decided to start making up a pair of trousers which I cut out aaages ago, not really feeling in the mood but thought it would kick-start my mojo which has been absent for a while now.
Well, I only went and edge-stitched both pairs of pockets together, then stitched them onto the front of the trousers. Can't comprehend how it happened, how many pockets have I stitched into garments?? :headbang:
Don't know whether to laugh or cry so I've left it for now, made a cuppa and then will get ready to go out :)
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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
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Bummer!
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Yep, leave it alone for now. Probably safer! :)
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@snoozi soozi, at least you have messed up on something proper. I have totally failed at making a single wearable mask. :(
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@UttaRetch ,you just haven’t found the right one for you yet. The patterns are all wrong. Ooh, where have we heard that before? :thinking:
I have tried a few and still not come up with the perfect one. The worst one I think was one that was designed by an engineer that supposedly had taken all sorts of things into consideration and shaped it for a human face. Major fitting problem, didn’t sit anywhere near where it should have.
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I can pm you a super easy one that actually fits very well. It is fabric hungry though.
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I just can't get the elastic in the holes I've made and out of around seven I made only two are what you might call presentable (to someone else). They are too flipping fiddly and to be honest I regard them as not worth the time and trouble when I can get on with something I can wear. I don't really want to make a statement either, bought pasty blue will do me nicely and they are washable.
Every page you turn coming through the letter box is masks, masks and more masks. A whole new industry has been set up on the back of Covid. I need a grumpy doofer.
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We are on the same page @Gernella. My mask making foray is over.
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I have just sewed a dart the wrong way and didn't realise until after I had pressed it so I had to unpick, press it out, and re-do it. It's a gored skirt which I have made at least four times over the past few years so you would think I could make it in my sleep.
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I took pictures of my sampler fmq, popped on the thread and posted. Checked the links work and saw I've missed a whole square and two half squares of the watermelon fmq
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We are on the same page @Gernella. My mask making foray is over.
Mine never started. I bought OH a package with multiple washable ones and a new box of the disposable ones I'm used to wearing for house and yard work. I don't go through many of those as it is.
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Still making daft mistakes on my skirt. I was overlocking the seam allowance and wanted to use just 2 threads, firstly I was threading the lower looper incorrectly, it took me over half an hour to sort this out. When I eventually overlocked the edges they weren't very flat, and when I came to do the lining seam edges I realised that the little lever for rolled hemming was in the wrong position. The machine is now set up correctly and I hope I can finish the skirt without any further problems :headbang:.
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Knocking out a long sleeved t-shirt. Quite silky Jersey fabric. Top stitches my neck binding, super happy with it - next side seams! Did one whoe side then realised instead of sewing the side seam with my faux over lock stitch, I'd sewn the side front seams together and the two sleeves :headbang: unpicking has begun.
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My big mistake for today was emerging from my sewing room where I was quite happy and seeing half a bowl full of pots hubby had created and dumped them :angry:. So now after playing hell up I'm in too much of a grump to go back and finish what I started :headbang:.
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I may have accidentally fused fusible interfacing to my iron. Forgot to turn it over (black on black) and put the tea towel on top.
Cue rush to the shops to buy fresh tumbledryer sheets to clean it all up. Took 4 whole sheets, but the iron is now squeaky and brand new looking! Phew!
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Oh don’t that make you cross @Surest1tch ?
We have a dishwasher but still the cups, glasses etc often only make it to the worktop....on top of the dishwasher!! :angry:
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Tumble dryer sheets? @Syrinx how does that work? I use wash up liquid on a warm iron to get it off. :)
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Oh it's amazing! So you turn the iron back on and let it heat up. Fold a teatowel up, pop a dryer sheet on it, wipe the iron on it. All the sticky stuff comes right off. You can also fold/screw it up and wipe stuff off the iron with it (I did a mix of both as a lot of interfacing on it!)
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Thanks I will try that next time :)
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Forgetting to top up my supply of white thread. Why do I always run out of white and black thread but more importantly why am I always surprised when I run out. :facepalm: Clearly, I have some planning issues.
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Mistake of the day? Right here. Right now.
In case you can’t figure it out, the grid is a plastic layer which helps to align things.
It needs to be taken away before stitching commences.
:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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:laughing:
I do like your fabric though @fajita. :loveit:
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:laughing: Looks like your positioning was spot on though @fajita
I knew there was a reason I don’t usually use these
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I've made a second jersey top out of leftovers and a remnant later offered. Doing swimmingly well until I got to the binding. Not much fabric left managed to get one cut but smaller than usual, which I thought I could manage with, it was too small.
So plan B, I did another one turning the fabric the other way, but had to add a piece in the back. Looked fine, machined, coverstitched, went onto the sleeves, which were just over 3/4 with lack of fabric, which was a bonus as I expected only enough for short sleeves. Coffee.
Went back to do the hem. Then started looking at the neck again, it was alright, but it wasn't. The fabric is not smooth, it is made to look knitted, not cable knit but in raised strips. My strips were horizontal and not vertical and the more I looked at it the worse it looked.
So, some ripper work this afternoon, which is going to be a dog to do, when I sew things down they are not going anywhere after.
What I don't like about this stuff as well is how it coverstitches. My sample was fine but looked tight later, which I realised was because the test piece was on the straight and I was stitching across the strips.
And after making a super viscose knit dress I anticipated enough for a top with short sleeves with the leftovers. I measured yesterday, not enough.
Going back to the remnant top, I might go to my remnant tub of jersey leftovers, there might be something there that I can use for the neck without having lots of joins.
Bummer.
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Oo eck @fajita
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Yep!!!
You are not alone!!!!
I have sewn up a pair of pants real good.
So much so that I couldnt get them on!!!
I have also sewn the pockets up so you cannot get anything in them and the pocket pouches to the trouser legs!!!!
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Pete
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Oh it's amazing! So you turn the iron back on and let it heat up. Fold a teatowel up, pop a dryer sheet on it, wipe the iron on it. All the sticky stuff comes right off. You can also fold/screw it up and wipe stuff off the iron with it (I did a mix of both as a lot of interfacing on it!)
Who knew? Thanks for that. Perfect timing. I was just wondering where to get iron-cleaner here as I just finished mine the other week.
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Oh it's amazing! So you turn the iron back on and let it heat up. Fold a teatowel up, pop a dryer sheet on it, wipe the iron on it. All the sticky stuff comes right off. You can also fold/screw it up and wipe stuff off the iron with it (I did a mix of both as a lot of interfacing on it!)
I didn't quite think this would work, but today I got my iron sticky from interfacing. I thought, I would try it and it is AMAZING! I really thought it would stick to the iron :faints: could hardly believe my eyes. I got a nice clean shiny iron and it smells good too. Thank you so much @Syrinx :thumbsup:
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Hallo-
We've all been there - sleeve put in backwards :(... Then set in too far (no longer big enough) :facepalm:...
then attached it to the wrong hole :headbang:... then finally put on correctly :dance:
Looking forward to sleeve nr 2...
William
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@William That’s why you’ll hear a weird muttering from my sewing room from time to time - “ back head wider than front, right side of sleeve, wrong side out garment, notches matched, stitch underarm, ease in crown “.
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@William Once you have the first sleeve in correctly the second one is much easier!
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That's because you only have to check it's right side out!
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I was cutting the sashing and border for littlest goddaughter's quilt. I sensibly cut the longest, widest strips first - for the border - and put them on one side.
I have now done all the sashing, and the patterned border, so I reached for the pieces I had set aside. Yes they were there - I bet you thought I was going to say they'd disappeared! However, I found that I had cut two of them instead of four, and what's left over of then fabric can't reasonably be made to work. :facepalm: Now I have to wait for another 1.5m to be delivered before I can get on with it. Aaargh!