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Another row sewn on the progress pride quilt!
Starting a new post because I don’t want to go find the old one lol
#sewing#sewing wip#quilting wip#progress pride quilt wip#I want to be making tiny monsters#but I also want to finish this quilt#so…both! I’ll work on both every day at least a little
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It's been almost two weeks since my last sewing update, but I have been making progress on a couple different projects, thankfully. I mentioned in my last post that I was hesitant to cut into a king-sized 100% linen bedsheet that I've been hoarding for 10+ years. I knew I wanted to make an apron, but I also knew that it wouldn't take up anywhere near the whole sheet, and I had the thought that I might be able to get two projects out of this one sheet (and the remnants of the matching fitted sheet) if I was careful about how I cut out all my pieces. Possibly a gathered tiered skirt/petticoat, along with the apron.
I measured the two long sides of the flat sheet that had identical ~1.25" deep hems, and I found that each side was 112" or just over 3 yards long, not counting the top and bottom hems. That meant if I did side seams, I could get a 6 yard wide bottom tier for the skirt and not have to do a hem at all, just use what was already there. Not the widest hemline on this kind of skirt (I have a purchased skirt with a 25 yard hem, and years ago I made a 26 yard tiered skirt out of muslin), but with this heavy weight linen it felt like 6 yards at the hem would be plenty.
Gathered tiered skirts are really just rectangles and a bit of simple math. Since the sheet's side hem determined the size of the lowest tier at 224", I figured I would do 2-to-1 gathers and make the next tier up 112" wide, and the third tier up 56" wide. A fourth tier at that 2-to-1 gathering ratio would have been only 27" wide, which wouldn't have fit over my hips, so the skirt would have 3 tiers.
I'm a short girl at not quite 5'2" and I like to wear my skirts pretty low on my hips for spoonie comfort issues, so after measuring a purchased skirt whose length I like, I decided that between 30" and 33" inches in total length would be ideal. With three tiers that length could easily be divided into tiers that are each 10"-11" tall. I added a half inch for seam allowance (but no hem allowance on the lowest tier, since I was re-using the existing hem) to get the exact measurements for each of the pieces I needed for the skirt.
I was able to tear most of my pieces, since the linen bedsheet was nicely on the grain and tore relatively cleanly, thus saving my hands from cutting all those long pieces. I had meant to cut the top tier at 14" tall so that I'd have room to turn under a nice thick waistband too -- and then I totally forgot and cut it at 12" just like the middle tier, lol. I was able to get one of the middle tier pieces and both of the top tier pieces out of the remains of the matching fitted sheet, so I only needed one middle and two bottom tiers from the flat sheet. That left me with plenty of flat sheet left over for the apron, but I'll talk more about that in my next sewing post.
With my pieces all cut out, it was time to start the most annoying part of making a gathered tiered skirt: gathering all those tiers. I'm trying to sew with cotton thread more often these days, but for the gathers I switched back to polyester thread just for the strength. For the two bottom tier and two middle tier pieces I ran two lines of gathering stitches along the top edge, placed pins to divide each panel into quarters, and got to gathering and pinning.
With tiered skirts I really prefer to work from the bottom up, so that I'm always attaching a gathered piece to a completely flat piece of fabric, and save side seams for last. So the bottom tier pieces got gathered up and attached to the middle tier pieces, then the middle tier got gathered up sewn to the top tier.
Since I accidentally cut my top tier pieces shorter than I'd meant to, I did play around with adding a separate waistband for the top tier to be gathered onto. But I couldn't do a full 2-to-1 gather if I wanted the waistband to pull on over my hips, and the waistband made the proportions look weird, like the top tier was too long. So I ended up cutting the waistband off after I sewed it and actually shortening the top tier even a little bit more. After turning under the top edge to enclose the raw ripped edge and then turning under 3cm (~1.2") for a waistband casing, that top tier ended up being about 9" tall, and the proportions of that look much better for some reason.
Before I sewed the side seams, I decided that this skirt needs to have pockets, of course. I knew I was planning to do French seams to protect the raw edges against unraveling, so I put the pockets in with a French seam as well.
With the pockets in place, the next step was to do the side seams (including the pocket bags), being careful to match up the height of the hem and each of the tiers so everything was nice and clean and square. Then I was able to turn under that waistband casing and sew it in place -- my original plan had been put in three separate channels for narrow elastic that would result in a bit of a faux-cartridge pleating look, but actually getting the elastic strung through there turned out to be more of a pain than it was worth, so I ended up picking that out and just using a single 1" wide elastic band in the waistband casing instead.
And with that, the skirt was technically wearable, and with some fabrics I might have been happy to leave it there. But the raw ripped edges at the seams between each of the tiers worried me. I've had well-loved sewing projects just shred after many wears and washes because I left the seams unfinished, figuring I would be the only one to see the inside. Ideally I want this skirt to be in my rotation for years and years, so I decided to make the effort to finish those seams too.
My original plan had been to cover the raw edges inside with 3/4" herringbone twill tape. For some reason I was convinced that I had a bunch of it left over from a Wasteland Weekend project from 2018, only to discover that I actually only had ~3 yards left. So rather than ordering more and waiting for it to arrive (and then inevitably having some of that left over too), I decided to just make some 3/4" tape from the linen sheet itself. Since this whole skirt is rectangles on-grain and the tape wouldn't have to go around any curves, I made the tape from on-grain rectangles too, rather than bothering with proper bias tape.
With the hem and the waistband already cleanly finished, I just needed tape to cover the ~3 yard seam between the bottom and middle tier and the ~1.5 yard seam between the middle and top tier. I tore nice straight strips, trimmed off the frayed edges, and ironed the raw edges under to give me that 3/4" width. It's three layers thick in the middle but only 2 layers thick on the sides, since it isn't a proper double-fold tape.
Then it was just an issue of pinning it over the raw edges inside the skirt -- first from the inside in roughly the right place and then from the outside to make sure it lined up with the seam well.
I stitched-in-the-ditch from the outside right where the gathers met the next tier up, and then went back and did another line of stitching just slightly up from that, using the width of my machine foot (~1cm) as a guide. That covered all the raw edges inside and reinforced the seam, and gave it a nice neat appearance from the outside.
It also had the added benefit of behaving almost like cording on a corded petticoat -- the gathered seems have a lot more body and stiffness now than they did before, which gives the finished skirt a really lovely lofty structure.
The whole skirt ended up being about 31" long, right in that 30"-33" length I had originally aimed for, and when I wear it low on my hips where it's most comfortable, it just brushes the tops of my feet.
My plan is to wear this mostly under other long skirts and dresses, more as a petticoat than a skirt on its own (tho it is heavy enough and neat enough to be worn on its own, if I want). That lofty structure from the seam finishes adds a lot of floof to my other long skirts, just barely peeking out the bottom of the purchased green skirt I originally measured to figure out the length for this one, and hiding completely under my purchased 25 yard burgundy skirt but giving it enough extra volume that it doesn't drag on the ground quite so badly.
As the colder weather sets in I'm sure this will get a lot of wear under skirts and dresses (including the several dresses I'm still planning to sew in the next couple months!), but even now in the last heat of summer it's quite comfortable to wear, since it's linen. Jack commented that it seemed like a lot of work for a skirt that won't be seen (and it did manage to remind me how much I dislike gathering long lengths of fabric), but as long as it's functional and gets used often, I feel like all the effort was worth it.
While I was putting this together, I also cut out and started assembling the apron project from the same bedsheet. Even with all those pieces cut out, I still have enough linen left over for at least one more, maybe two more projects. Next up I'm going to get to all the finishings on the apron (which will be getting its own post once it's done) and keep trucking along on the handsewn eyelets for the Lengberg Castle Bra-thing. And once those two are done, I think I just might be ready to finally start on all the dresses I want to make with my new fabric.
#sewing#tiered gathered skirt#peasant skirt#bellydance skirt#if you can sew a straight line on a sewing machine you can make this skirt#I wouldn't recommend trying to sew it by hand but it's a good beginner sewist project#the math is really easy and you can work upwards from the hem like I did or downwards from your waist measurement if you want#gathering in a 2-to-1 ratio (so the final piece is half its original width) is pretty standard but you can also do 3-to-1#bedsheets and quilting cotton are excellent options for this kind of skirt#and if you're careful with re-using hems like I did or using the finished selvedge edge of the fabric you can avoid hemming it entirely#long post#my sewing#2024 mood#linen petticoat project#linen apron project#which is actually all assembled and just needs all the hems and finishings. but that'll probably take me most of this next week I think#post on that coming eventually#and then: DRESSES
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It's wishlist sharing season, so here's mine. I use Throne because I can add things from other websites and not use Amazon as the the only option. If you're a creator, consider setting up a wishlist.
I have mostly quilt supplies on mine, but there's also tea, teacup/mugs (I collect them), watercolor paint (because mine were in tubes and solidified, making them useless), clothes, some food, books, and some fairly random items, and a new game console. That last item is a pipe dream, but it would make me sooooooooo happy.
The budget ranges from $7 USD to just over $500 USD.
In order of preference for what I would like most:
XBox Series X
Teacups/Mugs
Watercolor Paints
Books (not including quilt books)
Fabric
Thread
Clothes
Quilt Books
Food
Throne takes care of the mailing address and all that other stuff. If you happen to have my mailing address and want to send me something not on the list, go right ahead.
If y'all would rather give me money, I strongly suggest doing so by way of a purchase from my shop. You get something, be it a digital download or a quilt (I make them as small as 1.5x1.5 inches and up to queen size), I get money, and I free up precious space for new things.
Thank you!
#chaosfay wishlist#wish list#wishlist 2023#holiday wishlist#2023 wishlist#I have a $0 budget and will instead be making gifts. Some small items will be added to the shop as well if I finish gifts fast enough.#if you would rather commission me for something very small like a mug rug please contact me about this. I don't really want to work on#commissions right now because I have other things to work on. namely hand quilting because I have several quilt tops that need to be made#into finished quilts and then listed. one of them is a gift for a local friend so that one isn't gonna be listed and is in fact the next#quilt I'm hand quilting after I finish my current project#also go make a post with your wishlist and tag it appropriately. there's a couple blogs that reblog the wishlists.
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spent 80% of my day making the pain-in-the-ass squares for my ace jon quilt and consequently my body is 80% pain now
#there are two squares from the fanart#and one of them is extremely nice to do with just squares and rectangles#and - crucially - i cut them out correctly#the showpiece squares are much more fiddly and i'm going to go back in time and beat myself for not cutting the pieces out correctly#the hourglass blocks are all a half inch too small and i don't know what i did with the 2.5 squares but they are shit as well#but there are only five showpiece squares left to do now so i can absolutely knock those out in another day#and then i'll get to work on the filler squares and making rows#i really wasn't sure i'd be able to get this quilt done by end of year but batch sewing really helped#so if i can Focus and also Not Break My Back with this. i might even get the top done by the end of this month???#and then it's on to the worst part. the absolute worst part. finding backing.#(but also this is if i go the square route. whereas my original plan would add another 2 rows)#(and i was getting lazy but like........... 7x9 quilt............extremely good vibes from a 7x9 quilt........)#but then there's ALSO what i'm planning on doing about the actual quilting#because with all the very close calls with too-small blocks i probably NEED some dense quilting#but i haven't figured out my free-hand quilting foot and i don't want to practice on a quilt i've poured myself into already#so.......i guess i'll have to send it away 🥺#agh i'm Tired i just want to have the finished thing in my hands#BUT WILL THEY LET ME BIND IT? binding it is my favorite step i need to bind it myself i can't deal with strangers doing my baby's binding#i don't know!! and my back hurts too much to think about it anymore#quilting tag
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Y’ALL. I have finished my 7th quilt!
#quilting#dracula daily#dracula quilt#js#textile art#my finished quilt tag#sewing#snail trail at sea#quilt log#technically I can and should add more quilting to it.#but also: I just want to finish SOMETHING after having months and months with 4+ WIPS/UFOs#now to get my bf's postage stamp thing closer to done
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Making progress—about 1/4 of the cutting is done. As you can tell, this will be a very simple quilt. But I’m excited to put it together and try ?? Hand quilting ??? Maybe?? Idk we’ll see.
#my projects#quilting#I would like to finish all the cutting before the new year#also want to finish my embroidery ideally#we shall see
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i was like aw i wish knew someone getting married i want to make a wedding quilt and then i remembered my best friend is moving out for the first time this year so i get make a housewarming quilt instead. such joy!
#also i want someone to get married because ive never been to a wedding and i want to go to one#i think love is groovy and all that#unfortunately all my friends are. yknow. my age.#and my brothers are both losers!! so now we wait for my cousins to get it together maybe#which is really only in the cards for one of them atm tbh#but well a housewarming quilt is cute too :3 and i love my best friend sooo much so! ofc she can have one#i mean my brother moved out this year and i didnt make one for him. sorry man. but also not his vibe at allllllll lol#also i hadnt even finished my first quilt yet at that time so#sewing#that said if any of u guys are getting married um invite me!!
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so, with my weekend unexpectedly free, i think im gonna have some time to start a new project this weekend- but im not sure which way to go, so i am once again bullying you all to help me decide
the break up robe:
i have preeeeetty much everything i need to finish this project, or at least get quite a way in- its gonna be the harder of the two options as i have to (mostly) make the pattern from scratch so i dont expect to get much past the mock up stage this weekend, but i think once im started, i might be able to do bits and pieces in a spare hour over the week.
im quite looking forward to this, its far more in the comfort zone of things ive made before, but it also has its fair share of new techniques to keep me thinking! i expect this is gonna be a semi long project, so progress will be pretty slow but hopefully steady
also this project is the same velvet as the skirt i was making, so im expecting the same technical issues as that (ie. it is velvet and velvet is evil) and the lining is probably just as evil in the exact opposite way... so.... fun..... :)
the lighthouse painting quilt:
i am VERY excited to work on this one right now, however im not sure i actually have enough colours to make any meaningful progress on it. its gonna be an easier make (i think), i already have the pattern prepped, so i should be able to get right into assigning colours to sections and cutting them out- however if i am missing colour sections from my plan, im gonna run up against being able to do any actual sewing- i might be able to get the land and lighthouse done, but the whole background could be pretty much pointless to start when i cant do 90% of the seams.
im not sure if its worth starting any of it when im not sure when ill be able make the next jump in progress (and im worried when i get other colours i might want to move things around), but on the other hand it /could/ be good to get started on some of the prep work so i dont have to do it all in one hit when i just wanna start on the actual project.
#i feel like everyones gonna pick the robe buuuuut im personally undecided! itd be good to start cutting for the quilt but#im pretty certain im gonna have to put it down sooooo idk#i also know yall are really into the quilt project!!! thought that could jst be bc im talking about it more rn#i thiiiink i said everything i needed to say about each project! i think the most important detail is that i can pretty much finish#the robe but i will have to stop the quilt at some point#nyxtalks#poll#nyx sews#sewing#ofmd#im just assuming yall have seen my posts before and know exactly what this project titles refer to#its pretty self explanatory buuuut if youre confused sorry ':) i didn't want to make this even longer w pictures
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Jumped online to do some pricing research for quilts and oh boy, I am not immune to 40% off fabric by the metre, nor am I immune to enamel bakeware being on sale
#personal#morgan does crafts#i have like 3 quilts in my brain that I want to start#I need to nut out my log cabin quilt for the quilt show#I need to decide what I'm putting in the town show in May#like I have so many things to decide and the fabric is on sale and I am BEING TESTED#like idfk what I'm gonna do with 2m of gingham#but by hell I'll find out#this is not counting the crafts that I haven't yet finished#ie my cross stitch and my longstitch#i've also been intruiged by ink painting#i'm no good at art but i think it would be just fun to try
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Another woodland flannel baby quilt! This one took a little less than four hours from start to finish, including ironing and cutting out the pieces
#sewing#handmade#quilt#quilting#woodland flannel baby quilt#I still need to wash it but it’s about three yards of fabric total out of my stash!#…I also bought three yards of flannel today to (in the future) make a flannel shirt#so this is a net neutral#except that I have a finished baby quilt and some more fabric#but this weeks goal is to decrease my stash!!#so I have more work to do#I want to get at least one more baby quilt done this weekend
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A conversation at a wedding, beside the gifts table. There is a large box wrapped in violently purple paper sitting beside the table.
Guest: That's a big box. Wonder what's in it.
Me: A custom handmade quilt on an oak quilt rack.
Guest: Really?
Me: Yup. Wanna see?
Guest: Sure.
Me: *shows pics on my phone*
Guest: Wow. You made that?
Me: Yep. Finished it last night.
Guest: That's amazing. Very purple.
Me: Yeah, (bride) asked for that.
Guest: Oh, she knows about it?
Me: I worked with her on the design. But she hasn't seen the finished quilt yet. It's a surprise.
Guest: So you take commissions? Could you make one in, say, two weeks?
Me: That depends. Do you have ten thousand dollars?
Guest: What.
Me: Materials, labor, overtime to make that deadline--yeah, it would start at 10K. Might be higher if you wanted expensive materials or some really fancy technique.
Guest: That's a lot of money!
Me: It is.
Guest: Did you charge (bride) that much?
Me: No. Hers is a gift.
Guest: A ten thousand dollar gift?
Me: Well, to the extent that I am part of a quilting tradition at all, the tradition I'm part of is that quilts can ONLY be given as gifts. Anyone who could casually afford to pay for the amount of work involved in a quilt is probably not someone to be trusted with art.
Guest: Art?
Me: ART.
Guest: ...
Me: I also made her a nice satin dressing gown, which she wore for hair and makeup earlier.
Guest: Is that art, too?
Me: I mean, it's got pockets.
#quilting#sewing#fiber art#textile art#quilt#don't undervalue your art guys#also#while pockets might not be art#adding pockets to a woman's garments is def an expression of love
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back to organizing again and i keep underestimating how much work i need to do 😔 cause the main thing thats left is just sorting through fabric but ohhhhh my god....im gonna have to get little cubbies or something i hate having everything in boxes it makes it so hard to organize things in a way i can easily reach stuff but also put it back -_- and not to mention the actual Fabric i have is ummm very little. other than a few packs of quarters i would collect on sale and some project specific stuff...like 80% of my 'fabric' are just my old clothes i want to scrap or clothes ive gotten from the thrift store usually bc they have an interesting pattern or material...i have however generally sorted everything into vague piles so i think ill just put it all into seperate boxes to stack them and have to figure out a better system in the future
#i have a box of yarn with a smaller box inside with stuff like ribbon / lace trim / random misc things in that group#i like to collect random ribbons i find and im just putting it in a baggie lol i think ill also put my bag of patches in there as well#then i have specific fabrics ive bought such as quilting cotton / felt / ....other stuff lol#a small box for all my mink + fabric rhat sheds and gets EVERYWHERE !!!! so it has to be in its own box#the next groups are split up of all my scrap clothing ;#which are lettering (or anything that has like smth small printed or embroidered on it that i can cut up to save for future projects)#patterned (anything from printed pattern that covers the whole fabric to just like flannel or striped or such)#and material (all solid color but can still be used - focus on denim or tshirt cotton etc)#then a sort of...mix group. which is fully finished pieces - usually baby girl dresses lol i dont want to rip them apart without careful#consideration first...and then some smaller misc things but thats whatever#so i think ill put everything in their own box first and then decide what to approach...
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#life is terrible because I want to finish crocheting a blanket#but I also want to crochet a jumper#and also I want to sew a skirt from a pattern I have#and also make a dress#and also start like 5 different cross stitches#and also make a blackwork#and also make a quilt#and also learn to roller skate#and also garden#and also play more games#and also get back into interactive fiction#and also read more#and also do yoga and stretch#and also get fit and go for walks#and also learn photography#and also get back into archery#and SO many more things#and I only have time for like 2 of these things + life admin#it's very unfair#this post was inspired by the fabric my mum gifted me that I want to make into a couple of dresses#but I don't have time 😅😅
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i think creatives deserve regular paid sabbaticals from our day jobs so we can make things
#i think everyone deserves this but i want to specifically call out how much i've created during this week of unemployment#i just finished the SECOND quilt top from my wip list!!!#how many do i have left? don't worry about it 🤪#the fact that my new adhd meds are starting to work also helps lol#m.txt
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🥺 I love this addition so much! Thank you! I don't have anything smart to say so I will just share one of the quilted maps of Linda Gass as a little snack to go with your interesting words
Urban Power vs. San Lorenzo Creek – What’s Next? (2019)
I've started quilting my quilt and I thought it would be fun to approximately quilt in the shape of major roads (thanks yarrow for suggesting this in april) but now I want to quilt it more densely and feel locked into the road thing as 1) it is a sin to lie 2) as i am learning, Boston has an infinite number of roads
I will actually probably do leafs or vines or so on but wanted to share my road conundrum
Additional planning materials:
#you're making me want to take a geography class tbh#also re lying about roads i have the mechanical constraint of wanting dense quilting (tougher finished object) as a higher priority than#clarity of information#which is tricky!#love the chart of Lie Types soooo much.
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recently have been feeling absolutely terrible to the point of just total inaction and staring up at the ceiling in my bedroom thinking about all the things i could be doing and how i am wasting my time but unable to move from my depression
#and now my day off is over i have finished a teeny tiny portion of a new quilt and then i havw to be out at 10 tmrw smh#i just….i just want idk excitement? joy? i feel like i have been nothing but overwhelmed and silent#i also hate when people clock my anxiety in real life even tho im trying so hard to pretend its not there
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