Anyone else going to join me on the Sewing Bee watch?

[flubba]

A bit excited about it

:o

Mark's shirt i made in 2011 for DS

I chickened out of adding the lacing at the neck, because i used the shorter neck opening.

I don't know why Lauren didn't just check Patrick's fly

[innocent]

Great shirt, Bruffin :)

Hello LRD I do remember you! That was a lovely thread and was what inspired me to get sewing and making. Hopefully I've improved a bit since then :) Quilting is hard but addictive - my machine's not quite up to the task nothing to do with its owner :o but I'd love to get better!

Ah, RueDe, no I don't mind you linking to my blog :) --but can everyone ignore the crap posts please

I like my buttons to flummox my servants while they're dressing me, so sometimes I mix it up and have the buttons going the other way round :o

I thought the Brummy lady was a bit mean to keep putting doubt in Lauren's mind with asking her if she'd got things the wrong way round.

Ooh yes, good idea, Soup you dirty old thing :o

Thanks for the link. I'll have a read later. :)

I nearly bought my machine yesterday. I chickened out though as it's a lot of money to waste if I get it wrong. And I might have to try and make something and that's a bit scary.

So that spotty paper that Tilly was using, is that dressmakers' pattern paper? It looked quite soft, almost like fabric.

she used special pattern cutting fabric.
It's like the tracing paper us normal pattern cutters use, but woven. which means she can sew it too.

(if you ask me, it's like a cross between a pattern and a toile)

MrsPennyApple "Recently though, some manufacturers have realised this is out dated and irrelevant, and make it all the "mens" way. "

which believes me to think that manufacturers are twats

I'm left-handed. I'll have mine the correct women's way, thanks - it makes dressing myself a lot easier.

Plus, baby's clothes should all be done the women's way too - how many babies can dress themselves? But no, boys' baby clothes are done the men's way and girls' baby clothes are done the women's way.
Which means that of course, fo DD, I prefer the men's way, because of the left-handedness thing. But it drives DH crazy because he's right-handed.

flubba - i think she'd already got things the wrong way round.

Manufacturers are twats because they assume the majority are right handed? Really?

Unique Hey, don't shoot the messenger, I didn't decide it should be that way! There are left handed men as well, you know, they're probably not happy about having their zips fasten the wrong way either! Just like right-handed women have been having their clothes fasten in a way that suits left-handed people better FOR YEARS.

In case my point about baby clothes was unclear, yes, I put buttons on the right and holes on the left, as you look at the item (the womens' way) for that precise reason.

Can I ask a really stupid question please? What is interfacing? What is it's job?

Sorry if this is really obvious but I am slightly a lot clueless.

flubba I've had a quick look at your blog. It looks wonderful. I'm going to have a good read as soon as I get the chance. :)

It's used to stiffen things like waistbands and lapels/collars. It's a like a thick tissue and often has an iron-on adhesive on one side.

A piece of firm fabric or other material inserted and usually sewn between the layers of a garment to thicken or stiffen it.

yes, like a thicker stiffer tissue like fabric.

Oh thank you. That makes sense. Can you just buy it like material then?

Yes, you can buy lightweight, mediumweight or heavyweight interfacing in fusible (iron-in) or non-fusible (sew-in) finishes, and in black or white. Or you can choose to use some other fabric not specifically sold as interfacing as a sew-in interfacing.

Soupy - have I done something to offend you today?

yes, manufacturers are twats because they assume that everyone prefers something that they decide is better.
Everything is biased to right-handed people and it's fucking unfair (and sometimes downright dangerous)

Although, I have to say, I did laugh when I watched the Sewing Bee and that poor girl struggling to get the fabric through the machine because she's right-handed and the sewing machine is the only machine in the history of the universe to be left-handed.

yes, interfacing is very useful - the best type is fusible (so you iron it on), because it doesn't slip.

It really does make a difference to how a fabric lies.

Unique&Amazing, are you especially grumpy today?

Everything is biased to right-handed people and it's fucking unfair That will be because the majority of people are right handed.

yes, they are, but it wouldn't hurt to make things more neutral.

It got me wondering if all the older sewing machines were right handed as children of yore were forced to use their right hands.
I never thought about it before (being r handed) but scissors and things are mostly for right handed people so we have left handed scissors and saws and everything as all the males here are left handed.

no, they weren't.

sewing machines have always been this way.

the inventor Elias Howe was left-handed.

of course, if you talk to a right-hander, they go "but all the stuff and gunk is on the right hand side, meaning that it's easier to change this that and the other while you're sewing"

but, if you think about it, the free-arm is on the left, meaning that if the hand controlling everything being fed through the machine is the left, it's a lot easier to get it all done.
any adjustments you need to make to the fabric is all there on the left.
and all the right hand use to do was turn the handle.