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anielskaaniela · 1 year
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cadaverkeys · 3 months
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You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).
Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.
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whennnow · 8 months
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Purple Pajama Shorts
June 2, 2022
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[Image ID: a pair of plain purple shorts laid flat on a fuzzy white background.]
With my desire for cute lingerie and sleepwear still going strong, I went looking for more cute patterns. I had bought a non-stretch burnout velvet when I bought the fabric for my periwinkle bralette, so I needed patterns for woven fabrics. I thought knickers might make a nice lower half and decided to try my hand at drafting a pair from Vera Venus' French Knicker Tutorial.
The drafting went pretty smoothly, even though this was my first pattern drafting attempt besides my corset. Surprisingly beginner-friendly! There is one point where you put in darts, then close the dart to flare out the base of the leg, but I didn't want the shorts to be too loose in the leg so I didn't do that.
Once my pattern was drafted I figured I'd better do a mockup in something simple before cutting into my expensive velvet. So I pulled out some of the pale purple cotton broadcloth that I can't seem to get rid of.
That's when I realized that a pair of simple cotton shorts would make great summer pajamas and waste not want not... I decided to make them as a test run more than a simple mockup.
So I cut out my pattern with a half-inch seam allowance all around to give me room to do french seams. The hems got a full inch, though.
I pinned it all together to test the fit, and I'm glad I did. The fit was a bit too tight in the waist. I simply decided not to sew up the front darts the pattern calls for (I'm not shaped that way anyway lol). Satisfied with the fit, I got to sewing.
The back darts went first, then I french seamed the short inseams. The crotch seam went next and was also given a french seam.
Then I pinned up the sides to double-check the fit and was very happy with the result, except I felt like the waist sat a bit too high in the front. I experimented with folding the center front down a bit and settled on leaving the side front seams at the height they were but dipping in an inch at the center front.
With that settled, I french seamed the full right side seam and the left side seam below the opening. If memory serves, the pattern drafting instructions call for an opening on both sides, but my hip-to-waist ratio is small so I can get away with one opening.
Next it was time to finish the opening. I opted to bind the opening in one long piece of bias tape. The tape was a quarter-inch wide when folded but attached to a half-inch seam allowance. The binding on the front side of the opening gets folded under and still overlaps with the binding on the back edge to form a sort of placket.
Then I could attach the waistband. I wanted something thin since the shorts are already pretty high-waisted. I cut a piece of fabric two inches wide so that once it was folded in on itself it would be a half-inch wide to match my seam allowance. I was too lazy to attach it properly, so I just encased the raw edges of the waist inside the waistband and topstitched it all together.
I finished the waistband end on the front half of the opening to line up with the edge of the opening (mostly), but the end on the back half extends a bit. A buttonhole went on the front end, with a button on the extended back edge.
For the hem, I folded the edges under twice and machine-stitched a bit over a quarter-inch from the edge. My folds weren't super consistent on the inside but no one will see that so it doesn't really matter to me.
To finish I spaced three snaps evenly down the side opening. My side opening is about 7" long, so the snaps are about 1.75" apart. The opening was pulling in an odd way because of how the front placket was folded under but not secured, so I quickly topstitched short lines between each snap on the front.
From drafting to done, I think these shorts took about three or four short evenings of work. They're almost entirely machine stitched except for the button and snaps. All the raw edges are encased to ensure that these survive the heavy wear they're bound to get.
The shorts are just slightly loose in the waist, but they definitely would have been too tight with the front darts. The bottom of the crotch seam could be an inch higher and still fit well. When I make these shorts out of that next burnout velvet, I'll take the front side seams in by about a quarter-inch on each side and try raising the crotch seam a half-inch (just in case).
I'm super happy with how these turned out and they're definitely going to be my go-to pajama/lounge shorts this summer!
Until next time
Stay warm. Stay safe. Stay healthy.
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quiltingwitch · 4 months
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Swords for a sword lover, finally complete ⚔️
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the-cricket-chirps · 7 months
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Ellen Morton Littlejohn, Margaret Morton Bibb
Quilt, Star of Bethlehem pattern variation
ca. 1837–50
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vincentbriggs · 3 months
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Do you have opinions on sewing machines? I ask because my family is trying to get into making our own clothes and I'm at a loss on how to even start researching and thought you might have opinions.
I'm partial to the old cast iron Singers. I grew up using a 15-91, and when I moved out I got a 99k. Both are electric and have the ability to backstitch, and they only do a straight stitch but have a bunch of feet and attachments, including a buttonholer.
It depends on what you want though, if you think you'll be needing zig zag stitch then a newer machine would be better, but you can still get solid metal ones that are decades old and have some different stitch options. I think most of the fancy stitches on those machines never get used though, you can probably get along fine with just straight stitch.
I have practically no experience with modern domestic machines, and I know a lot of them can do fancy stuff, but I don't like how plastic-y they are. I'm sure there are some that are good, I just don't know which ones they are, and I'm sure someone who does use modern machines will have suggestions! I just personally don't like the vibes of working on a plastic machine. It doesn't do the satisfying thunking and clunking of a nice old metal one, you know?
There are lots and lots of secondhand ones that can be found pretty cheap, though they might need some servicing. I bought mine off kijiji from a guy who refurbishes them, but have seen a lot of machines at thrift stores, estate sales, etc.
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aran-made · 8 months
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Made a bunch of wall quilts available here.
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costumeloverz71 · 1 month
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Creating GEORGES HOBEIKA’s Fall-Winter couture 2017
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leulahart · 8 months
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a little sansa doodle because i just know she'd be a fashion girly
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milf-harrington · 2 years
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i keep seeing people say "oh eddie would be x in a modern au" "eddie would be y in a modern au" and im ???
a modern day eddie would still be a metalhead dnd player who's probably read the LoTR triology more than once; he'd just also own all the movies and know a bunch of useless trivia about the actual filming and production.
he'd probably still be a drug dealer, still gets held back a year in high school, probably has a second hand phone with a cracked screen that he only uses to listen to music, skips class because his teachers don't like him, runs a dnd club either in the drama room or the art room, either forges notes to get out of phys ed or just doesn't show up, he strikes me as someone who enjoys the process of burning music onto cd's so he probably has a bunch of mixtapes in his glove box and steve would hate driving with him bc his car wouldn't have an AUX port or anything so he'd either have to listen to the radio or eddie's music
a modern day eddie would still be eddie, he'd just have the luck of getting to experience all the nerdy shit that comes out after the 80's and also modern technology
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gender-trash · 2 years
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the post about fast fashion/sewing one’s own clothes blew up again… honestly the more i think about it the angrier i am about it. with both clothing and furniture we sort of live in a world where the market is being overtaken by disposable items made with cheap materials at the lowest possible labor cost. and like, not to diss ikea or anything — god knows they’ve supplied me with enough cheap bookshelves — but this is exactly why i ended up building my own desk.
my dad tells stories about his mom, who was very talented at sewing — it wasn’t her “day job” but in that part of rural iowa in the 60s she was the person you called if, say, you needed a wedding dress on next to no notice. (i’m also told she was excellent at baking pies, but that’s beside the point.) at that time and place, it was legitimately *cheaper* to make your own clothes than to buy them from the store. they would be made of much the same materials, except that you would substitute your own labor for that of whoever assembled the storebought garment.
today, the fabric to make a shirt will almost certainly cost you more than an equivalent department store shirt would. to say nothing of the cost of your time and labor. part of this is that people who sew their own clothes generally don’t want to waste their time on shit fabric, so fabric stores don’t sell quite the same grade of shreddable polyester. part of this is that our modern globalized supply chain has minimized both labor and materials costs as hard as it can, and this optimization has intertwined labor and materials sourcing a lot more than they apparently were in the 60s.
let’s turn back to the subject of furniture. the equivalent of the cheap polyester department-store shirt is the ikea desk. the desk surface is made of laminated particle-board, which is lighter and cheaper than actual wood; the desk is sold to you flat-pak, and you assemble it yourself, thus saving on labor costs. the laminate surface will probably delaminate after a few years’ use. also as with the cheap shirt, any damage is near-impossible to fix — you could sand and refinish a scuffed plywood surface, but there’s no sanding laminated particle-board. it’s also harder to modify to suit one’s needs — i can drill a neat hole for a monitor arm in my plywood desk much more easily than in a particle-board surface.
in both cases, what do you do if you want a slightly higher grade of item? well, obviously you’ll have to pay more money — but it’s difficult to be sure you’re really getting your money’s worth. you have to spend ages and ages comparison-shopping and reading reviews about how quality has really gone downhill since production moved to [new country]. often — especially with clothes — the thing that your money is actually paying for is Style, as separate from Substance. or good advertising. i’ve been halfheartedly in the market for a decent couch for some time, and i’ve noticed that nearly every apartment makeover video on youtube is sponsored by the same furniture website, which of course has provided a free couch — that the youtuber assures us is Really Good, For The Price. as soon as a manufacturer acquires a reputation for Quality, it is in their economic interest to sell out as hard and fast as they can and pocket the increased margin from selling crap at the price of quality until people notice. and in a world where most shopping has moved online, it’s difficult to tell whether you’re still in the actual-quality period. i’m not sure if there even *are* furniture stores around here at quality levels in between ikea and danish concepts (suggesting a market for a mid-tier scandinavian furniture purveyor, perhaps hailing from norway or finland).
because of the sort of person that i am, i tire rapidly of the endless comparison shopping. i don’t want to become a damn couch supply chain expert, i just want to retire the folding chair from my living room. it can’t be *that* hard to build a couch, can it? well, not if one is privileged enough to have the tools and time and space to do it in. i think most of the comments and tags on the fast fashion post are from people wishing they had one or more of the above to make their own clothes with. speaking from direct personal experience, a sewing machine is at least both cheaper and easier to find space for than a minimally equipped woodshop.
the other common piece of advice is to buy used, buy from a thrift store or an estate sale. unfortunately hunting down all your shit used also takes a lot of time and effort, and particularly in the case of furniture hauling the stuff home is a nontrivial logistical problem. again, money or more nebulous forms of privilege (the friend with the truck) are needed to smooth these roadblocks. and it’s really amazing that the solution to “i want an item that is not garbage” is “buy an item manufactured at a time when they were not yet garbage”. yes, of course, the less-durable instances won’t have survived the passage of time, but that’s only part of the effect. things genuinely used to be manufactured to a higher standard of quality. my sewing machine is from ebay; it’s the same model my *other* grandma had, a baseline singer consumer-grade machine. all its gears are metal, and it has a heavy-ass cast metal housing, too. the other household sewing machine is a modern singer consumer-grade machine and for all its fancy stitches it looks sort of like a doll’s toy — the plastic gears are going to break at some point, or the motor will burn out, and if it turns out that the motor on the modern edition is designed to be user-replaceable i will personally eat a hat. i suppose we also used to ask a lot more of our consumer-grade sewing machines, back when sewing one’s own clothes was a baseline household skill for everyone but Rich People, instead of a hobby that consumes more money than it saves you.
i don’t know if my post really has a conclusion. i’m just angry that we live in a fallen world full of miraculous technology and yet we have not solved the seemingly simple economic problem of exchanging a reasonable amount of money for a newly produced durable good that isn’t a complete piece of shit. i am a *robotics engineer*, for the love of fuck; i have a complicated, rare, well-compensated skillset. it cannot *possibly* be a comparative advantage for me to spend my time building a couch or sewing a shirt instead of paying someone to do it for me (ideally also, if i may ask for a miracle, someone who gets things like fair pay and healthcare and vacation time). why is this transaction so damn hard??
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anielskaaniela · 1 year
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Hey there! I'm excited to share my latest YouTube video on how to hack my free bralette pattern and sew two different types of bras using a recycled linen skirt. It's a beginner-friendly tutorial with detailed step-by-step instructions, and I can't wait for you to watch the whole video. out! Don't forget to share your thoughts on these unique bras in the comments. Happy sewing!
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sillythefunny · 3 months
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modern au (totally not an excuse to draw frenchie in a crop top)
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whennnow · 8 months
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A Periwinkle Bralette
May 12, 2022
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[Image ID: a photo of a bralette laid flat on a cutting mat. The bralette is made of a periwinkle-colored burnout velvet with elastic in a coordinating color.]
I was suddenly overtaken by the urge to make cute bralettes as an excuse to buy fabrics I don't get to work with in my historical sewing. This urge hits me every once in a while, so I had a few pdf patterns saved already.
A quick trip to Joann Fabrics left me with a yard each of two burnout velvets - one stretch and one non-stretch.
I wanted to start with the stretchy velvet, which is a lovely periwinkle color, and decided to use the free Barrett Bralette pattern from Madalynne Intimates. Then I had to go searching for the other materials I needed - stretch mesh, three (3) different kinds of elastic, and a set of rings and sliders.
The mesh, rings, and sliders I bought from Madalynne Intimates (and I later bought more sliders and a G-hook from Tailor Made for another project). The elastic all came from Bias Bespoke. Bias Bespoke has a lot of elastic in a lot of colors! The three elastics I ordered all had the same color name and looked similar in color, but I was worried they wouldn't match because they were from different brands. They did match, though - nearly identical!
With all my supplies assembled, I could assemble the bralette.
I risked going with a straight size from the pattern, because of the stretch, and it worked well for me. The instructions say to do the center front seam first, then the cup seams, then attach the back. All the seams except the center front are done in such a way that the seam allowances are enclosed. I decided to have all the seams end up enclosed that way, but do the center front last because it made more sense to me.
My sewing machine did not like this fabric. Possibly because it was stretchy and slippery. Possibly because of the varying textures of the burnout velvet. Probably both. But we struggled through.
Then it was on to elastics. The pattern calls for picot elastic for the edges, but I wasn't vibing with picot edging so I got fold-over elastic instead. I should have trimmed off the seam allowances along the edges for that, but I didn't. It's only a quarter-inch difference so it's not a huge deal.
Next I attached the wider band elastic along the bottom, mostly following the instructions.
I'm fairly pleased with how well the elastics went, considering I've never really sewed with elastics, but The edges did turn out a bit wavy and my stitching was sloppy. I think I should have made the elastic tighter in the armscye area too. It's comfortable, though!
After that, it was just the straps. The rings get attached to the pointy part on top of the cups, which was a bit difficult to put through my machine but we made it. Then I attached one end of the strap to the center bar of the slider, thread the other end through the ring and back through the slider like a belt. Once I decided how long I wanted the strap to be and where I wanted it to attach in the back, I could sew it down and I was done!
It's not perfect by a long shot, but it's still pretty darn good and I like wearing it!
There are some things I would change if I used this pattern again. For one, the neckline feels a bit narrow, so I'd add half an inch or so at the center front seam, and remove that much from the back band. I would also straighten out the top part of the curved seams over the bust - my bust just isn't shaped like that, and I get a bit of wrinkling there. I might even go down a size so the band is tighter and the cups are more supportive.
This was a fun experiment, and I enjoy wearing the results! There will definitely be more experiments with lingerie/loungewear in my future.
Until next time.
Stay warm. Stay safe. Stay healthy.
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quiltingwitch · 4 months
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An Exploration of Large Scale Foundation Paper Piece Quilt Designing
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Cozy Swords So Big
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I made this quilt for a sword enthusiast, I’m sure they would clock inaccurate sword proportions right away. It was important to me that the (non magical) swords be as proportionally accurate as possible. I based each blade to hilt ratio directly on historical or famous prop references (can you spot them?) and designed them to be life sized.
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A very sweet boy’s tail for scale against an early pattern draft
The most challenging part of constructing this quilt was working on the RIDICULOUSLY long blades. Typically individual pieces of an FPP pattern are small and easily maneuvered. My largest blade pattern pieces were about 45 inches long, a design decision I would never inflict on anybody but myself.
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The smallest blade- the only one I took photos of because the rest were way too overwhelming to document. The largest pieces were triple the length of this.
Designing the blades to be contained in a single piece of each pattern maximized precision in the parts of the designs that I really really wanted to be smooth and sleek.
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The long blades were very hard to construct, it’s easy to end up with bubbled fabric on FPP pattern pieces so large. Glue stick and spray starch were critical here.
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My only totally impossible sword was designed in a more traditional fpp kind of way, broken into many small pattern pieces. There was a lot more room for error in seam matching, so this block took me much longer to complete than any of the others. I redid quite a few seams to get as close as I could to perfect.
Overall I loved how these large scale FPP designs turned out. I think the result was worth the hassle of working with my comically large pattern pieces.
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the-cricket-chirps · 4 months
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Salvador Dali, Sewing machine with umbrella I, 1941
Man Ray, Beau comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie, (‘Beautiful as the accidental encounter, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella’.) ca. 1933 (6 photos)
Salvador Dali, Detail- Sewing machine with umbrella I, 1941
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