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In the wardrobe / Did I invent a seam?!
« on: March 11, 2019, 15:28:16 PM »
OK don't laugh, I think I invented a seam. I've consulted my book of Complete Dressmaking Skills and it's not in there...

What happened : I'm making a shift dress from drapey polyester and was about to 'overlock' the seams after sewing them when I realised - too late, as per - that I should have done French seam as it is likely to fray away to nothing the messy little swine, and overcasting will look reight rough. 

Not wanting to unpick a perfectly good seam I folded and pressed both sides of the seam allowance in on itself and stitched it together on the fold, capiche? (If I could post a pic I would but need instruction on that :S)

So, it's a hybrid flat fell seam and French seam - a French fell seam p'raps?   8)

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In the wardrobe / Help please.....
« on: March 05, 2019, 17:01:17 PM »
Oh dear, I'm feeling v out of my depth with this one. Re: previous post on the Sarah shirt toile, I have made a second toile with larger sleeves, having jiggled about with blending them into the armhole of the shirt, but it looks so wrong I'm wondering whether to carry on.  Thing is I don't know what to do with regard to fitting and alterating.

As it is right now, I can get the sleeve on but the shirt shoulder hangs below my shoulder, but I need the room in the back so I can stretch my arms forward.

What's the usual procedure with this kind of thing? Should I make a larger size shirt altogether and make adjustments on all of it? I need different size shirt, sleeve, yoke and the bl**dy lot, aaarrrrgh!

In case you can't tell I'm stressed


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In the wardrobe / Girls vs Boys
« on: March 02, 2019, 11:36:39 AM »
I'm constructing a shirt toile which has a pleat in the back piece just under the yoke. The pattern doesn't specify which side to insert the pleat (r/s or w/s) but I'll put it on the r/s anyway. It got me thinking that we always see men's shirts with the pleat the other way, anyone know why this is?  -<

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Fun with Fabric / Good cheap calico
« on: January 20, 2019, 15:55:15 PM »
Forgive me if this subject has been raised previously but I'm a newbie. I need advice on where to get some cheap-ish calico to make patterns, pyjama bottoms mainly, which I know will be used time and time again, therefore being sturdier than a paper pattern.

There is one fabric shop in my hometown with very limited stock of fabric, it's wool and haberdashery mainly  :'( oh, and a Dunelm. About 20 mins away in the next town there is a lovely fabric shop - pricey - as well as a Boyes which I know stocked calico the last time I looked - early last year.

I mainly shop online due to the lack of availability where I live so I don't feel hard done by in the slightest, it's a big world out there. In the past I've bought v wide sheeting or used charity shop duvet covers and the like, but there's something about calico that I really like and hanker after using  :S

Any suggestions for the good, the bad and the ugly....?

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Dolls and Toys / Toy pattern
« on: October 15, 2018, 22:13:26 PM »
Apologies but I didn't know which category this falls into, I'm banking on a moderator helping out with that....
Are there any toy making experts among you?! I'm attempting a Jo Carter pattern for a stuffed elephant, my aim is to make it into a doorstop.  It's a free pattern from simply sewing magazine from aeons ago, my first try at anything along these lines. I've had a couple of head-scratching frustrating 'moments' already but figured them out and rectified them successfully.
Now I need to sew the back legs, each leg is just one piece; but I'm beginning to think there may be a pattern piece missing...let me explain.

The back legs are as fat as the front legs and all four legs have the same size of bottom foot to stitch onto them. The front legs consist of two pieces - inner and outer. The only pattern piece for the back leg is called inner back leg, methinks if it was just one piece it wouldn't have the magic word inner to describe it...?!

I've stitched up the front legs already and stitched the bottom foot onto them, this worked out nicely so I just know the back legs are not going to be big/fat enough.

I've searched online for any advice/youtube vids/anything but drawn a blank   :S

Sorry for rambling, I hope this makes sense to somebody and maybe some of you have attempted a toy pattern before, perhaps this particular one.  I don't want to abandon it but I feel that its main aim in my life is to make me cry  :'(

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Access All Accessories / Hi people, I have an interfacing question
« on: August 15, 2018, 13:39:41 PM »
Hello sewists

I joined a short while ago but I'm just getting round to introducing myself.  I live in sunny scunny with a man -Touche - and three hounds - Sooki, Max & Poppy.  I'm very lucky to have my very own sewing house at the bottom of the garden  :P  I took up sewing about three years ago, inspired by The Great British Sewing Bee, and have since inherited my mother-in-law's Janome machine which I love.

While I'm here I'd like to ask a question: what's the difference between fusible fleece and foam interfacing? I have a pattern which uses both so I'm assuming they must be different somehow but I've never heard of foam interfacing.  Any guidance gratefully received...

Sue (Snoozi Soozi)

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