@Andrew @Deborah Pickett I routinely use it (my singer heavy duty 4411) with 500 den cordura.
It struggled a bit with multiple layers of TPU-coated cordura plus 3d mesh plus webbing, while sewing around a big panel with stiffening in it that made it tricky to move it around smoothly :D
It was this seam:
And then I've sewn silk with it (I'm not going to say it was effortlessly. silk is never effortless :D )
But I've never done patchwork, so I have no idea if it's missing some feature that is really useful for that.
The one thing I didn't need right now was a new project, right?
It will have picot stitches (or something like that) on both sides, and it will go on my next corset cover.
Aaaaand I've published another #FreeSoftWear pattern that has been in the almost-ready limbo for a few months.
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
The finished object picture is from a different item (made in a lighter gray) than the one in the step-by-step pictures, but I've kept the latter a bit overexposed to see the details, so it doesn't really show (also, my camera did odd things with the colour balance, which varies a bit between shots) :D
One day I will learn how to draw proper pattern drawings, but today's not the day.
I still have things in the backlog, but they all require a bit more work than these two.
@FreeSoftWear group #sewing @sewing group
(edit: added the url I had forgotten in the original post)
And after sitting on it for something like two months I've published the pattern for my modern (it uses fancy stitches that weren't easily available on victorian age sewing machines such as zig-zag :D ) / vintage (it's based on something from when I was a child :D) nightgown.
It's still missing a worn finished object picture, but it's too cold to take it right now, and if I wait for them I will forget about publishing the pattern, so I'll add it later, hopefully in the spring.
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
(Thanks to my mother for crocheting the yoke, I only did the sewing part on this)
#FreeSoftWear @FreeSoftWear group @sewing group #sewing #crochet
ok, apparently the accepted way to get a pattern to be transferred on fabric with tailor's tacks is to remain in the same room with the fabric and actually do it, with no interruptions. who could have thought!
(yes, the green tint on the photo still comes from the #pinephone and its updated software)
now it's tea time, and then maybe before this evening I'll cut everything out and move on to cutting the lining. if I don't have to do other things (such as maybe look at what happened to the pinephone camera software? maybe).
Have I ever mentioned how much I love *having marked* the seamlines on fabric with tailor's tacks?
and how much I hate actually doing it? :D
it took me the whole day to lay the pattern on the fabric and start doing that little bit, thanks to interruptions and procrastionation.
(also, apparently I got the problematic update on my #pinephone that broke taking pictures :D )
*surprisingly* sewing the sleeve to the right side has made it fit :D
I will have to add some structure to the top of the sleeve to prevent it from deflating as it is doing in the mock-up, but I think I can say it fits and proceed with cutting the real fabric.
Which I got for cheap as a bolt end, but was still expensive fabric, so I'm absolutely not trying to postpone the moment, why do you ask? :D (it's going to be made in dark grey — I think it's called — tropical wool, lined in gray silk, and the center will have the option to be filled by at least two different plastrons)
And then, I may have accidentally another :D
The square-ish dice work better than the round ones. I haven't tried the lozenges yet, because I've then realized that using them in the most obvious way wouldn't be fair, and we didn't want to bother with choosing the side to count :D
Sooooooo, I may have
accidentally
a new game of Ur set
and uooops, while taking the photo one of the green pieces was misplaced, but I've played the game afterwards and it was there :D
I'm experimenting a bit with alternate shapes for the dice, the coin-like ones work decently, but they get mistaken for the main game pieces when getting the game out of the box, and they also roll around quite a bit.
And something tells me that I've attached the sleeve to the wrong side on the mock up :(
it's just basted, but still.
at least I hope that it's attached to the wrong side, because otherwise it's significantly wrong.
I'm not proud of this layout, but it's just the mockup, I'll do better with the real fabic (where the pieces will probably be shorter, so I would have had to change the layout anyway)
It begins.
I'm actually not sure whether I'll go fully #1890s with this jacket (with moderation :D) or I'll keep the sleeves fitting: I'll decide after I've sewed a mock-up.
Now, the question is: is this Mazzini or Vetinari?
Picture taken at the Museo del Risorgimento, Milan
#SillyCuratorPrompts #WoobleWednesday
I didn't read the description, of course
OTOH, a voice in my mind has been saying “you can't comb a hairy ball” for the whole time it took me to paint this :D
The phone released the two pictures I've taken yesterday
I believe I've done something wrong, since I've used way more rope than the internet tells me is typical for an average project, so I'll either have a lot of leftovers, or a result that is denser than usual.
As a learning thing, I'm fine with either.
@Sibylle I wouldn't mind. the phone minds a bit more, at this hour in the night¹ :D
The white part is a reflection of the light, they are just regular big sewing needles (size 2 sharps - I believe that bookbinding needles should have a rounded tip, but right now this is what I have)
Now that I've tested them, I believe that they will have to be bent a bit more, especially the top one.
I don't think tomorrow I'll have time to shoot proper pictures, but I hope in the weekend I will.
¹ it's not really night, it's just dark :)
uops, apparently it's not safe for me to go to the haberdashery to buy just a spool of buttonhole thread.
No, I don't know what to do with it, yet. maybe on a skirt? maybe on a capelet? maybe on a decorative apron of some kind? right now it will go in the stash until I find the right fabric and the right project.
Yesterday we went for a walk and @Diego Roversi took a few pictures of the flannel shirt I've just finished (and I forgot to button it up completely before the pictures were taken, uoooops)
The pattern is always sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… , but I've cut away the excess material in the front rather than pleating it.
#sewing #HistoricalSewing #1880s @sewing group #FreeSoftWear
Project red shirt has started!
red as in Garibaldi, not as in Star Trek, and right now I've only done one cut, and then moved on to other things (it was time for tea :D ), but I plan to finish cutting most pieces tomorrow and then start (slowly) #sewing
@Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto: uh! I used to do this to create conscripts (fill a page with random scribbles, find the nice looking ones and clean them up as characters of the conscript), but why have I ever stopped, it's so relaxing!
After the first page I made two pages of non-washi non-tape and I'm seriously thinking in the vague direction of plates for the inner covers of a book :)
If somebody needs *that kind* of encouragement :D it's sennelier acrylic ink (purple) and deAtramentis Dark Red fountain pen ink, with a Brause 361 pen on clairefontaine tracing paper and clairefontaine dessin croquis blanc 55 g/m². vintage quality :D photo taken with a pinephone in low light :D
From today's wikipedia trip: a 1920 ad for work clothing that mentions that they are made by unionized workers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rai…
(sorry, I don't have the energy right now to copy the rest of the text, it's mostly what one would expect, but if somebody can write a complete image description I'd be grateful)
I've published a new pattern, for classic jeans.
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
They are based on a menswear block, so for people who need more fullness in the front than in the back; one day I will also draft the same pattern based on a womanswear block, but right now I don't need jeans-like trousers in non-denim and I don't have a source for decent denim, so don't hold your breath for it :)
@sewing group @FreeSoftWear group #sewing #sewingPattern #jeans
Third layer cut!
I was tempted to only use two layers for the straps, since this time they wouldn't fit under piece A, but then I tried to squeeze it somewhere else and… WIN.
I still have to finish other handsewn things, but I have the cutting mat on the table, and I decided I might as well start cutting the #AugustaStays, and then maybe later in the weekend I can make the buckram.
Natural linen would have probably been better than white¹, but oh well, in 200 years they are going to be yellow too :D and they will be trimmed with powder blue cotton
¹ yes, it's white³, the blue tint is courtesy of the vintage effect² in the pinephone camera :D
² no, it can't be turned off :D
³ and now I must look for a UV light to find out whether it's merely bleached or it also has optical whiteners, but I don't know where it is
Beside the nightgown, the sewing plan for this week involved making a second bathrobe like the one I made a few weeks ago (in the picture, this one is a darker gray) so that a) I now have a SPARE! (rather than just one disintegrating bathrobe :D ) b) the bulky fabric isn't taking up space in the stash anymore c) I've taken improved step-by-step pictures to publish the pattern.
Today I've done all of the machine sewing, I only have to hemstitch all of the binding by hand (because I'm a masochist).
And this makes it three garments for which I have written instructions, taken pictures, and “only” need to edit those pictures and add them to instructions to be able to publish the pattern.
Now that the corset top is done, I've resumed working on the flannel shirt, as I'm probably going to need it quite soon, weatherwise.
Yesterday evening I had planned to flat fell the sleeve seams, instead I've finished hemstitching the collar to the wrong side, and attached the back to the yoke.
Today I want to do the side seams by machine, as that's the last machine seam, and everything else will be done by hand.
The pattern is sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… , with a flat front instead of the pleats.
The stays-inspired corset top is done!
It's made from an old pair of jeans, spray painted with sparkling blue fabric paint and bound with black bias tape.
I've used some paracord for lacing, but I think it isn't sparkly enough, and will probably look for something else in the stash.
Worn over a skirt and petticoat the tabs do something funny, but that was just to be decent while taking the pictures, if worn *below* the skirt they should do their jobs.
Of course it is quite wrinkly, since it's unboned (there are just zip ties on both sides of the eyelets), but I'd say it works quite well a) as a costumey fun thing done with things I already had home b) as a general idea that I've cut the right size of the pattern and can proceed with cutting the real thing (and then properly fit them according to the instructions).
@Giulia per intenderci su quanto sono ossessionata: al momento (e praticamente in ogni momento in cui io stia indossando una gonna) ho addosso queste:
le misure sono sufficienti per farci stare un asciugamano (almeno se è di microfibra) :D
il messaggio di benvenuto accogliente del comune di Beregazzo con Figliaro
e la seconda e quarta riga erano pure lampeggianti!
E comunque, ditemi che non penso a voi, dal pomeriggio di oggi lungo la Lomazzo-Bizzarrone, chiesa dei santi Pietro e Paolo a Beregazzo (comune di Beregazzo con Figliaro).
Con anche il bonus dei paesi coi nomi lombardi intrinsecamente divertenti!
Ammirate le rampe per permettere agli angeli di fare cosi con gli skateboard!
Immagino che questa vada per le #chieseBrutte2023 ? comunque #chieseBrutte