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My first ever victorian outfit is DONE! I made all these things!!
#adventures in sewing#arts n crafts#the skirt and jacket are both made from 1895 patterns#the shawl is from an 1860s pattern#everything else is improvised lmao#i also have a stripey button up shirt and another petticoat#i'll get someone to take good pictures in daylight this weekend#so people can finally see my outfit is blue and not black lmao#anyway all of my clothes have massive flaws#but for a first ever victorian set (where i used actual patterns!) and after just one year of sewing#and i did a lot of this by hand and often while sick too#so i'm happy (or at least trying to convince myself i'm happy)
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Today on: "Adaptive sewing that looks stupid but works," we have this.
Can't hold your fabric taut because your fingers hate you today? No problem! Chip clip and a random bit of lacing to the rescue.
#My life is just one dumb-looking contraption after another tbh#adventures in sewing#spoonie problems#-- and their subsequent solutions
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Well I did my first crouch stitch(the blue wavy thing) and it went as well as I thought.
French knot stitches are still the worst though.
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Pinfora-ish style of apron I've been working on.
#adventures in sewing#no pattern sewing#the whole point is the pockets and that it's on my shoulders not around my neck#because a regular apron puts too much strain on my neck
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Frog friend frog friend
I made a FROG out of SHARKS 🫠🐸
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Another cute little dirndl! The colour of the bodice and apron match better in real life.
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Different workspace. Same cutie problem.
#sorry I’ve been radio silent#I bought a house and it was traumatic#now trying to find the muse again#adventures in sewing#quilting#Bebe!
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This is the skirt I made!
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Spent the weekend dealing with urgent life admin and also organizing my fabric stash.
I sew too little to have so much fabric, seriously, it's an issue. But then I usually sew complicated things that mean they'll take looooong to finish, meaning I don't get to sew as much as I want to. But I think I'll change that, now that I feel much more confident about my sewing prowess :)
Anyway, I obviously compounded the problem today when I bought more fabric at the Dutch Fabric Market when it came to town 🙃 Not too much, but enough.
But my stash at home is starting to be more easily accessible and I now have a record of how much of which fabric I have. Or well, started on that 😀
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my quilt project is done! hopefully this'll stop some sunlight coming into my kitchen (and also my neighbour's peeking). it's incredibly wonky but also so cute <3
#adventures in sewing#quilting#quilters of tumblr#arts n crafts#you'll all have to forgive the terrible lighting i took this picture at midnight lmao
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in further moving news, i did the maths and i won't have a sewing space until mid august when we move into our new rental, which puts a dent in my winter coat making plans because by then i won't really need one as winter will practically be over. so predictably i've decided to just make it now, in between packing all my stuff, when the house is a mess and i'm already stressed about a million other things. why not put a time crunch on this project too!
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I don’t need to buy a sewing machine.
I don’t need to buy a sewing machine.
I don’t need to buy a sewing machine.
I don’t need to buy a sewing machine.
#overwhelmed with the urge to start sewing projects that I nowhere near have the skills for#I two projects I need to finish#adventures in sewing#artemis speaks
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Back.
Front.
Close up to try and catch the little bit of sparkle.
Close up to see the stitches. (Chain stitch by a coverlock/cover-stitch machine.)
In the tub to wash out the stabilizer. (Looking lacy.)
#adventures in sewing#making a lacy shawl with a cover stitch machine#using three stitch types. three needle. two needle. one needle#this might end up being my bat cape that my lace bats get attached to#but I have to wait until it's dry to see if it's going to work or not or if the bats will be too heavy for it
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There is exactly zero photographic evidence of the dress I made for my senior ball back in 2001, and honestly I'm kinda grateful for that.
It was a choice. I had a very distinct vision, and I did not execute it well, but I did come up with something wearable and all the "this is homemade by a person who has taken exactly one home ec course" weirdness was hidden.
It was a floor length princess-seamed yellow satin gown.
Yes, yellow. Like.
Sparkly golden yellow.
(like that gif? The fabric I got was exactly that color.)
Now. A yellow gown is not a bad thing. It was a very pretty color. But there were some odd choices made.
Ok, so first of all I had been struggling for 4 years to find formal gowns for various dances that I could wear a bra with. Because hello double Ds in freshman year, I was BUSTY. Strapless bras did not work for me (although I find myself wondering if bra tech has advanced since then). So what was my solution? I said "fuck it, I'm sewing a bra into this dress." And I did.
It worked really well, but then I had old tatty bra straps sticking out of my pretty satin dress.
So... trim to the rescue!
What did I use for trim? I'm so glad you asked.
I used a black feather boa for trim.
I whipstitched it all along the neckline, and made it into straps. Fluffy black feathers. On my pretty yellow dress. One like this:
Just so you have an idea.
And then. I put one around the hem, too. For balance. Look, I don't have a sane explanation, I just really liked the color combo for some reason. It was 2001, I lived in wide-leg overalls with pockets big enough to fit several paperbacks, my fashion sense was non-existent.
I paired this dress with black suede pumps and black satin opera gloves, by the way.
Because of course I did.
Um. I don't know if I've really painted the right picture here.
You gotta picture Kate Hudson's "How To Lose A Guy" dress
But like... cheaper fabric, poorly tailored, and trimmed with BLACK MARABOU FEATHER BOAS. I cannot emphasize that enough.
#adventures in sewing#i also made a hair accessory#using satin scraps and leftover feathers and rhinestones#like the really cheap rhinestones you get in little baggies at the craft store#the ones that are plastic and foil#it was pretty tho#and my dress looked better than the girls who just wrapped themselves in different colors of Saran wrap#yeah#that was a thing#at our ball
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Look at this cute little dirndl I made!
#Adventures in sewing#Sewing and quilting are two different things#I've been a quilter for over a decade but sewing is new
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So. I randomly made a quilt block today.
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