So here are the pictures of my mending on my purple stretch leggings.
No idea why the colours are so drastically different in each picture when it's exactly the same pair of leggings, but hopefully the pictures illustrate the mending of the hole!
Today in #handsewing: using up the tiniest scraps from a previous project to make sachets filled with balsam fir needles. They're so cute and smell nice, too!
the drawers have been finished. I haven't worn them yet.
the binding on the bottom of the #AugustaStays is done, that on the top is almost all attached, and then I need to sew it to the back. I'm procrastinating the cutting of the lining.
I've cut and started hemming the shoulder sack / marked bag. Wait, have I just started a new #handsewing project before finishing the ones in progress? Who does that kind of things (me. the answer is me. :D )
this morning I finished the last machine seams on the denim vest and attached the buttons, I need to to the buttonholes and then it's wearable.
the pieces for the shift have been cut, except for the fact that the side gores are still attached to the main body. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to sew everything together (and that may change the exact size of the gores).
And I've realized that I've probably done one of the seams of the drawers wrong¹: I can fix the instructions I'm writing, but then they won't have a picture of that step until I do another pair of drawers. it will have to be.
¹ as in: perfectly serviceable, but not the way the book I was following probably intended.
News from the land of hobbies:
I have learned to hand-sew a neat 90° corner, and pretty nifty semi-decorational pocket. I attatched it to my old slacks and it is actually functional. (:
Next trial - hidden pocket.
These pants will be covered in different kinds of pockets as my skills progress. :P
I've been relaxing by sewing together a cape for my partner. It still needs hem decorations, but I am proid of myself getting the pieces together correctly. :P
It wont be a showstopper, but could be something they can wear next fall when it's finished.
Spouse has a thick cotton jersey with giant holes at the elbow. I realized that we had another knit shirt the right color that nobody would wear, so I cut patches for the elbow from it.
Ordinarily I prefer to sew knits with a zigzag stitch on the sewing machine, but I’d have had to unpick the sleeve seam to do that, and I didn’t want to.
I basted on the patches and then went on a quest for a hand sewn stitch for knits. I found some; other suggestions welcome.
I have finished the robe, here's the rest of the making of photos!
Here, joined by Karvinen for felling the hem turn. All the little things you can do with fiddly corners when you're sewing by hand. Mitred obtuse corners! Finishing the sleeves by turning the cuffs.
Doing felled seams by hand on the side seams:
You don't have to trim the seam allowance that gets turned under if you simply offset the edge of the fabric. You turn the longer edge over and under the shorter edge, fell down with whipstitch, and the raw edges get encased and secured.
On the right side you see a little line of the fabric grabbed by the whipstitch!
The way you make the collar of an 18th century bedgown. There were probably a dozen different ways, but this is one of them, and delightfully simple!
You cut open the front with a slit along the top edge, insert a folded over collar piece with its edges turned under, then fold it over to sandwich the raw edges, and whipstitch or topstitch in place.
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
Have finished the very simple linen nightdress. Straight seams by machine and felling and details by hand. One of those things that look like nothing in photos, especially unironed like this, but are very comfy to wear 😄
Every time I finish the neck opening in a different way and can never decide what I prefer.
When I taught dance classes, videos helped me and my students remember and refine. As a sewing teacher, when I started 3 years back, I realized the same tool would also help me and my students. So I exclusively create content for my full time sewing students at Richard Robinson Fashion Academy, and sometimes I’m just showing off… #handsewing#sewingskills#tinystitches#sewingteacher#ottawasewist
Making a super basic and simple (and zero waste) petticoat for a house skirt. This half of an old duvet cover is a very thick, dense and very very soft cotton.
I folded the sheet, marked a 4cm dip along one side and cut there, to make the centre front 8cm shorter than the back. Machine stitched side seams, then felled down the seam allowance by hand. Currently in process of hemming.
Musti is often keeping me company when I sew, but there's a lot fewer clips or photos of him doing so, because his velvety black fur gets pretty much lost in my black clothes!
I'm sure it will come as a great shock to those who know me that I am once again sewing an apron out of a leftover piece of exquisite linen by hand to soothe my brain wrinkles.
This new smaller gauge linen thread feels quite lovely to work with!
One of my cats (oh, I know which one) chewed a hole in my comfy madras pants. They have large cargo-style pockets on the thighs, and I just realized I can cut out fabric behind the pockets to use as a patch, and then replace it with something else because it's hidden. And I might just make it a little longer on the inside so my phone fits better. #sewing#cats
Next up, folding under the edges of the patch and basting them into place, and then sewing it into place with tiny blind-hemming stitches. #sewing#handsewing#mending
Oh, and the donor pocket. You can't tell from the outside that there's a different fabric. But I know I have flowers in my pocket! #sewing#handsewing#mending