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Just so anyone knows,
My company has just made it a lot easier for a commissioned sales associate (me) to get credit for online sales.
So if you have somewhere between $180 and $23,000 usd and don't know what to spend it on, talk to me.
Especially if you need a Janome M17. Like really, please talk your friends with too much money into buying a Janome M17 from me. Maybe buy a couple.
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The top sewing project like the making the top is so cute & really impressive ! I wanna get into sewing as well to make my own accessories and clothes for dolls. I don't where to start tho. Well anyways that's all I wanted to say 🧘🏻♂️❤️
Aw thank you pretty!!!💕💕 I appreciate that sooo much🥹💘
Sewing is so fun and definitely rewarding!! Sewing doll clothes seems like such a fun idea!!
I’m definitely doing that for my kids when I grow up!! 🪡 📝 🧵 🪡
I started by watching a few tutorials and reading basics on how to use a sewing machine and then I started really simple with sewing scrunchies 🎀
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Hell yeah we be making oven mitts yall
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ok. went to the fabric store today and successfully hemmed my depop velvet pants and successfully sewed the tiger to the jacket and successfully bought fabric glue because i need to admit that i have to take some shortcuts in order to make my life easier. i simply cannot hand sew the rest of my appliqués. everyone was very suitably impressed with my Vision™ and had many compliments 👼🏼 i had to hem the pants twice because the first time i didn’t cut off enough fabric so now i’m basically an expert 💅🏼 i also got to use a coverstitch machine for the first time and by god those things are amazing. also i got a burrito from my favorite taqueria bc i was in my old neighborhood and now i’m going to EAT IT!!
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My sewing machine decided it's time to start giving random error messages again whenever I sew.
It's a cheap, 200 euro digital machine, you get what you pay for.
First repair was 3 years back, 110 euros.
This time the estimate is 120 euros.
I am gladly gonna pay for that because 1) I refuse to buy a whole new sewing machine just because the bobbin tension fucks itself every 3 years, 2) sewing machines are one of the few things that still have repair shops semi-widely available, and 3) machine quality and inflation are making it that I couldn't even find an equivalent machine for the same price if I wanted to.
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I was wondering if you would know how long would it take to make a dress for a ball in the 19th Century, before electricity was widely used. Like that was still a time when you went to a tailor to get your clothes made, especially for special occasions so... how much advance would you need? I'm guessing even longer if it's the tailor your friends go to as well and you are all going to the same ball, but on average, what? A week? With a trying test in between choosing the design and having it ready, I imagine...
Oh interesting question!
I've heard a week or two weeks as a turnaround time in contemporary sources from the late 19th century, when electricity had technically been harnessed but electric sewing machines (if they existed at all) were vanishingly uncommon
I imagine it helped speed things up if this was your regular dressmaker who already had measurements and custom-fitted patterns on file for you. even very wealthy women saw no issue with having multiple dresses made up from the same pattern with different fabrics and embellishments, back then. although, of course, the intricacy of the trimmings requested would factor into the production time as well
notably, before the infamous Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897, the hostess intentionally sent out invitations only three weeks in advance so that the guests wouldn't have time to order costumes from European couturiers and would have to patronize local dressmakers/tailors instead. so if a month or more was the lead time necessary for an imported fancy-dress costume, 1-3 weeks for something domestically made seems reasonable
(said hostess, Cornelia Bradley-Martin, saw this in the light of an economic stimulus to the garment workers of New York City. given that there was a recession on and the total cost of the ball ended up around $400,000- in 1897 dollars -the general public did not take such a charitable approach. there was massive outcry in the press and from the pulpit, and the city actually raised tax rates specifically for the Bradley-Martins and their friends the Astors, due to the astronomical excess of the ball. even the Victorians could at times be, as the youths do say, based. but I digress)
it's also important to keep in mind that most dressmakers did not work alone, but had a team of seamstresses working under them. so it wouldn't just be one woman struggling with a massive backlog of orders- these were usually multi-employee businesses, running like well-oiled machines to churn out handmade bespoke garments with impressive speed
...often criminally underpaid and with Not Great working conditions, but that's off-topic for the question at hand
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