My spouse has a bunch of workshops coming this summer covering a lot of cool DIY sewing skills!
Patternmaking, design, and sewing classes for a bunch of skill and price levels! You should definitely come take some! Ruby is a great teacher and will help you look good and have fun doing it!
#VisibleMending is not only for #clothes. This #colourful#handbag with abstract roses helped me against dark winter days. Suddenly I discovered this terrible hole and decided to mend it. It was not easy to find the fabric (more in the Alt texts) but I saved my handbag! 😊 And now it's a unique piece of individual design! @visiblemending@sewing
Jeden zweiten Dienstag im Monat trifft sich die Gruppe "Freising nadelt" im Gasthaus "Lerner". Von jung bis alt sind hier alle vertreten, stricken Socken, Mützen und Pullis. Auch Männer sind dabei.
I was rummaging through old photos and found this testimony of how I started (and then got hooked on) #VisibleMending. Moths had eaten holes in my favourite jumper. I was furious and swore revenge with a needle. Since I couldn't embroider properly or be accurate, I "needle-painted" yarn moths. Today, everyone thinks the jumper is an expensive designer piece. 🤭
Finally finished... the Georgia O'Keeffe/organs jacket. Mostly merino/nylon from independent dyers. Spot the eyes, lungs, brain and hearts. The Georgia O'Keeffe references include the goat skull/flower, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, grey charcoal spirals and abstract flower close-ups (that's what I'm calling them).
That's a top down (more or less) raglan construction, about 10 cm below the separation of body and arms.
According to the order confirmation I should have 5 cones of the yarn, though I can't find one of them at the moment. But with 500 m / 100 g I should be fine, even if that cone really doesn't reappear again.
🧵 1/ My new #VisibleMending project: This linen-yarn T-shirt is a memento of my dog, who once got stuck at the bottom with his claw and tore a hole. It's darned in the shape of a yellow beetle. To make the whole thing more harmonious, I'm going to do a few small appliqués elsewhere today. @visiblemending
🧵2/ Process of "harmonising" a T-Shirt that had a very flashy #VisibleMending with an embroidered beetle. There are no holes under the appliqués, they are used to create the overall look. Next comes a vertical appliqué from the right edge of the collar. @visiblemending@fibrearts
My #knitting project of the day. Or of these days.
But I'm getting close to finishing it. It's a top down worked short sleeve top and I'm adding a border similar to the one around the neckline / on the sleeves at the bottom of the shirt, 5 or 6 repeats of the lace row.
And one of them is already done.
Next decisions: how to finish the neckline and whether I need a finish around sleeve ends.
I told you I'd show you my coat, and here tis, in a screen grab from video so it's blurry, but I look better blurry. #Sewing#SlowFashion#SashaStarlight
This morning, I added a few rows to the jumper I finished last week as I've worn it a couple of times and found it was a tad shorter than I'd intended but now it's spot on!
I finished just before 3am this morning and I'm so proud!
There are a lot of issues - the shoulders are on the wrong way and one is in the wrong place, it's miles too big width wise, it's a touch short. But I made it and it's wearable and cute and I love it!
OK, I have a thought on the oversized issue and may try running a ribbon through the bottom and maybe top ribbing so I can drawstring it a bit so only the middle is oversized which I don't think will bother me the same.
Time for an update on the socks I'm knitting! The first one is almost ready to start the ribbing, about 15 more rounds to go. I did include some calf increases 😉
One reason was, that usually when holes started to appear it usually was the complete sole that started to disintegrate and after 10 or so years the yarn started to get brittle. The other one was, that I really hated doing it the way my grandma taught me.
Then a few years ago holes started to appear much earlier and mostly at the ball of the foot. Often after only two years.
I finally dropped by @laineysluck tonight and while I didn’t get the chance to meet sweet Lainey, I had a ton of fun digging through the bins! I came out with a top and a nightgown. Woot!
For some reason, I’d been under the impression it was in Hintonburg (why?? 🤷♀️) but it’s actually on Bank Street, right by the 417, so easily accessible on foot, by transit and by car.