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Started work on my dinosaur bones shirt. The dark colours don’t do my stitching justice in photos! Attached the pocket, shoulders & front facing all with layered flat seams, and prepared the collar for attachment. Plus, I’m never using iron-on interfacing again!
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It was extremely frustrating attaching the collar and sleeves, but youtube was my friend. Also, I feel that my flat seams need admiration because they are just perfect! Now I’m just waiting on buttons to arrive.
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I started work on the leggings using the same pattern as before by using the french seam method this time around.
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I’m making up a prickly shirt for my fiancé. I am very pleased with how the pocket and enclosed seams all turned out. I am displeased by the collar as I had to basically make it up as I went since the pattern was poorly explained and I swear missing steps. There is visible stitching…
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Forgot to take progress photos of this project. I needed something for the top of my upright piano, so I decided to create a quilted runner with sashiko panels. Fabrics are a mix of standard quilting patterned fabrics and traditional woven japanese fabrics. Top stitching was done following the borders of all the rectangle blocks.…
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Finished stitching up an orange slice. Pattern from #StitchYourDream on etsy. I want to adjust the colours for a blood orange and frame as a pair for my kitchen.
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I’m only doing a partial fursuit so I made a dtd with shorter arms and legs. Then taped it up to pull a pattern. Many things wrong with this including being too tight/small and the side zipper placement is wrong. More work to do!
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Made some donut fabric weights for my future SIL, then decided to make myself a large set too.
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I wasn’t too sure whether this pattern would be suitable for the K’rahmyteh costume, so I made up a pair in fashionable stripes as a test. This is honestly a beautiful pattern and allows for french seams if you want. My only edit was to machine blanket stitch the raw edge where the waistband is…
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Did up my partners’ owl cushion over a weekend afternoon. For some reason I thought it was a clever idea to sew the opposite sides first…um, no. Don’t ever do that when quilting, you just end up having to unpick the corners to make everything line up properly. Some other hot tips are: always pin…