Proper sewing again!

Feels like I haven't done any for months! But earlier this week I skimmed apattern off a pair of jeans for a customer, cut them out, and put them together. :) She's comming for a fitting on Monday morning.

I also did the design and printed the pattern out for a pleated skirt. This will need quite a bit of care, as it's not just any old plaid, but the Royal Naver Association tartan! 14oz pure wool, and rather gorgeous. Fitting is this afternoon.

Then I have a really fun project to do: a version of this lovely hat! I'm starting on the toile this afternoon...

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won't be a diary of this hat for publication, as it's for a very private customer. But if anyone has any leads on 1" wide 100% silk ribbon, I'll love you forever! Dyable would be good...

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KATE KATE ,,,,,, lovely hat ,,,, mirjam

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mirjam

Yay, Kate!!! That hat will be fun to make. Gorgeous lines to it. Too bad you won't be able to share much of it. (Maybe one picture or two when it's all done? On a wig stand?? Insert hopeful whimpering here.)

The skirt will be gorgeous. Can't wait to see pics of that too!

Sharon

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Sharon Hays

Well, I shall take lots of pix and mak a diary page, but it won't get published this side of eternity. I need it for my records. I may get permission to send a few pix out to occasional other costumers.

That will end up on mr Posh Frocks page. :)

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Kate XXXXXX

Ooooooo! A kilted skirt? What fun. Ask me how I know... ;-)

Dang, I would love to see that hat in progress.

Beverly

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BEI Design

I can't find a tartan with that name, is it this?

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so, lovely!

Beverly

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BEI Design

Probably a lot better for you if you react to wool.

Beverly

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BEI Design

Nah... RNA Ladies Uniform skirt: just two pleats in the front and a flat back. Dead simple...

I'd love to publish the whole process, but...

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Kate XXXXXX

This one, which is just de lish uss! :D

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and smells lovely, but makes me itch to sew... Just gotta be careful!

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Kate XXXXXX

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>> > If so, lovely!

That's a beautiful tartan, the colors almost blend to purple at first glance. My DGD has finally selected the tartan for her next competition kilt:

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her teacher will pick it up from the mill next trip to Scotland (unless the teacher finds something spectacular in green, in which case that will be DGD's next dance kilt). I'm so looking forward to it, just think 44+ hours of hand sewing. ;-} Beverly

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BEI Design

Dear Kate,

First, Pride and Predjudice is my favorite movie of all time. I love the bonnet. Try Ribbon Connections for the ribbon. It has widths up to 35 mm and you can get it to dye if you don't see the (many) color you want.

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Teri

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Well, I have found and pressed all the bits of the cut-out Mage Robe. I have mended the pattern (lookes like the cats got at it and tore shreds out of it while playing! There were whole ragged chunks missing! I am really NOT that careless, normally... ) Quite a bit more was done of this project than I thought, but the collar seems to be missing... I shall take the pattern out and see if I just failed to cut it out. If the pattern piece is missing, I'll copy it off my own copy of the pattern, so this goes home complete.

Yesterday's fitting was excellent. The skirt fits in all essential detaols, and the customer liked the way it hung. I shall just add an inch or so of ease just over the hips (she has a flat bottom, but 'square' high hips at the back, if you see what I mean) so it doesn't pull that tiny bit at the zip.

I managed a trip to Hobbycraft late yesterday afternoon, and got six more of the boxes I've been packing my thread in. Now ALL the thread is in nice dust-proof boxes inside the Ikea Antonious plastic drawer frame (six plastic drawers with a white melamine 'desktop'), and hidden away behind its 'cozy'. I also procrastinated a bit today, sorting out the Lily feet (I dropped the box, all the feet fell on the floor, and the Curvemaster box scattered those bits in with all the others!), labelling all the feet and bits boxes, and putting various bits away so the decks are cleared for action!

I need to rethread the serger (or set up the Brother in black) as the Bernina is threaded up in navy blue for the jeans project. I'm aiming to neaten all the seam edges of the lining skirts and all the hems before making dinner. The chicken pieces can be defrosting and the rather limp lettuce reviving in a bowl of water while I do so.

The jeans are ready for fitting on Monday morning. Other things on the Need to Do Soonest list are:

Complete Mum's skirt! Complete Big Sis's winter coat... Do Little Sis's giant floor cushions!

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Kate XXXXXX

Well, Kate, it's good to hear you are back in the swing of things!! The restaurant owner decided to go with my suggestion of taking the rather huge cushion and making it into 2 smaller ones (easier and cheaper to repair of the cover gets snagged on anything), so I went with that and thanks to my friendly neighborhood fabric store owner, I

*finally( learned how to use an electric knife to cut foam....not my favorite thing in the world, but at least I know how to do it now!

2 of the cushions are finished with piping and zippers in place and able to have the pulls tucked out of the way. I needed a break from black vinyl, so I am trying to finish DSs "Star Wars" button up shirt. I even managed to straighten the workroom and vacuum up all the piddly bits of thread and fabrics!! I should get back to the 3rd cushion later this week and then on to the cushion cover for the young man that referred me for this job.

Really not much getting accomplished, but I'm enjoying being able to work at home with no children barging in and scaring me half to death (they wait until they are right behind me to say anything - very dangerous for fingers).

Glad to hear you are feeling better and plugging away at your work!

Larisa

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Reading all your doings , make me Dizy ,, you are so eficient !!! mirjam

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mirjam

I'd be scared. Not you, of course.

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reason dial-up and shell accounts are limiting. But I neverhave problems with bots and viruses.

Anywhere? or just .uk?

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Nah... ;) Fitted almost perfectly. Small adjustment done to pattern, and that'll need printing out again before cutting the real thing. I'm still hunting up some really nice heavy satin twill lining for this.

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> Another reason dial-up and shell accounts are limiting. But I never> have problems with bots and viruses. I have occasional ones: not often as DH has been a computer services manager for years and we have some pretty good stuff to keep most out, and good things for zapping the few that get through. Sometimes some prat invents a new thing that bores through, but it's like shipworm: regular checks and treatment keep them in check.

Anywhere. I have no problems ordering from anywhere in the world. I just don't want to have to order 2000 reels of it to get the 15 or so yards I'll need!

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