Stitch and bitch thread #5 This whole thing is fabricated.

[NutellaEllaElla]

Welcome back seamsters! It is soon to be September and Autumn is on its way.

Your plan sounds perfect SBAM but you’ve given me a reality check by saying your grandma was a child in the fifties 😥

Heh yes, my grandma was a child in the 1920s! I really wish I'd talked to her about fashion back then - she was an accomplished dressmaker - but she passed away back in 2015.

I got a load of feet for my sewing machine, now I just need to invent a reason to use them all:
I needed to use Google Lens to find out what some of them were, and then YouTube to figure out what they were for and how to use them.

Hello all I've not got much sewing done recently as it's been hectic but I thought I would check in anyway.

I had a little bit of good news today so in celebration in my dinner break I went and splurged on some lovely wool for a skirt and a twill stretch type fabric that is probably going to be a cardigan of some sort or perhaps another stretchy dress.

And speaking of Peter Pan collars has anyone got a good pattern for an adult blouse with one? I fancy making one out of some sheerish cream Swiss dot to layer over camis.

It’s a bit bigger than a standard Peter Pan collar but the Nina Lee Bloomsbury blouse seems to be a favourite among the statement collar fans.

Bakerloo blouse! The Bloomsbury blouse is an Edwardian style one that’s also very popular.

There’s also the Megan Nielsen Sudley top which has lots of different options.

Wowzers they are some big collars!

lovely blouses but I can't pull off flouncy stuff and massive collars, I'm quite well endowed in the breast department and flounces on my top half make me look like Queen Elizabeth the first in a ruffle.

The collar on the sudley is perfect!

@InMySpareTime I like that sorting box for feet. I need something like that!

It's an embroidery thread box, but I repurposed it as the feet fitted nicely and I'm more likely to remember to use them if they're labelled.

Hello hello, i've spent a few hours sewing up a toile today. Not completely finished but not far off.

Balls I just sewed my dress shut. With an overlocker. It's a wrap front. Bailey's and walk away.

Oh no!

Baileys is definitely the way to go

Have I ever mentioned the time I sewed the inner seams of a pair of trousers together so I just had one big tube.

Or the time I tried to make a skirt I had made many times before in various views in some lovely but expensive heather/grey linen and managed to cut one piece/length from view A, another from view B and another from view C. It wasn't salvageable.

I've learned three times as much from every mistake I've made than I have from every success.

Oh that sounds frustrating @NutellaEllaElla 😬

I realised today that after joining this thread a few weeks ago, I’ve done nothing more than take a few measurements and endlessly browsed fabrics online. Think I’m going to abandon my plans to draft my own skirt pattern for now and just make one I already have a pattern for. May be that will kick my backside into action 😂

Thank you for your sympathies and reassurance. I bet you could've kicked yourself for cutting out 3 different views @pastabest

@CrimsonAlligator Once you get over the first hurdle of getting started you'll be well away.

It was this summer and I'm still not over it

I've kept all the pieces and if I can bear to look at it again I may try and use it for a children's skirt or perhaps for some sections of a bag I'm planning.

it was the Megan neilsen brumby skirt which I've made a few times. I managed to cut the front in view C (short length no pockets), the pocket sections in view B (mid length with mid size pockets) and the back in a shortened version of the FRONT pattern pieces for view A (long length full pockets).

I also cut the waistband too small as I remembered it had been too large originally. I had forgotten though that I had already sized down on the pattern piece the last time I made it.

Still not sure how I managed to mess it up that badly.

What a nightmare! I've forgotten to mirror the pattern pieces when cutting out jeans - ended up with two identical front legs when they should have been a pair. Thankfully I had enough denim to make a second pair and cut out the original piece the right way round but there was much swearing at the time.

I've just unpicked rather a lot of overlocking stitch but I couldn't leave it in that state. It'd better be wearable when it's all said and done! Doubt i'll have any more time this weekend.

I hope everyone is having a good one.

Sorry folks, this is all making me feel better about my many minutes of trying to get the bottom thread to come up on the sewing machine a couple of weeks back.

Household chores have been performed, fishfinger sandwiches eaten (food of the gods). I now have given myself permission to disappear into my sewing room to carry on with Chandler trousers. Fabric washed and pressed, cutting out done, now just the small job of sewing it all together. What could possibly go wrong?

I confess I never unpick overlock stitches- I just cut them off if I’ve done them wrong 😱.

First cuff on the Josephine is on and looks good, so I’m leaving the other for another day.

Front of trousers is sewn!

Aargh! I’ve made a big mistake with my overlocker too! I was overlocking a seam and got a part of the yoke caught in it. I unpicked up, but it was cut 😢.

I’ve patched it on the back but it’s quite visible still. Any ideas on what I can cover it with ?