Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Sewing on Aug 3rd, 2010
Miss A was asked to a ’70s party (she had to dress up in ‘olden day’ clothes). Anyway I decided to make her a dress using a psychedelic 70s type print. I picked the above pattern (Burda 9544). It’s been so long since I made any clothes that it took me two attempts to get [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing on Jan 12th, 2010
W is for watermelon. I need to start working out what to do with these blocks only X, Y and Z left.
Posted in Sewing on Jan 7th, 2010
I finished my Mod 9 quilt, which was started in August 2008. Here is the back… I’m reasonably happy with it. My cutting wasn’t fabulous and I was a bit disappointed with my free motion quilting – I should have used white thread instead of purple and I still need to practise more so that [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing, Software on Oct 12th, 2009
Miss A wanted a Pony T-Shirt. I’ve put it all together in Embird. The pony and flower are from Designs by Juju. The alphabet I use in the label is one of Embird’s alphabets (22 I think) and I make the satin stitched borders in Thred. This is Miss P (who – of course – [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing on May 29th, 2009
A friend had a little boy. I made this T-Shirt … Here is the back … The designs are from Designs by JuJu and the T-Shirt is from Blank Clothing. The T-Shirt is lovely, it’s made from organic cotton. Unfortunately it is only available in little sizes (up to 2). Now my other friends who are having [...]
I’ve sewn the backing together for this quilt. There was quite a bit of cutting involved. Each of the large purple stripes consists of two parts and the thinner spotty stripes weren’t quite wide enough, so I needed to added extra purple bits on the end. All the fabric came from my stash! I then went [...]
Posted in Sewing on Apr 7th, 2009
I finished my Summer Shirt (from Weekend Sewing by Heather Ross). I used a thicker fabric than recommended because I wanted to wear this in autumn and possibly winter (with something underneath). The thicker cotton made the button loop a bit tricky and in the end I made a wider version than the pattern. As [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing on Mar 26th, 2009
I’ve made the girls Easter T-Shirts. The above is the front of A’s and below is the back. The Sunbonnet Sue is from here and the flower from here. I didn’t stabilise enough, so the fabric is a bit puckered on the Sunbonnet. I attached the embroideries to the T-Shirt using a small zigzag stitch [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing on Mar 17th, 2009
Another T-Shirt commission. Here is a closer view of the front … Here is the back… And a closer view of the back … I’m really pleased with how this one turned out – very girly. The font is Love Letters from GG Designs. The Strawberry design on the back is from Itty Bitty Spring Fling [...]
Posted in Sewing on Mar 11th, 2009
I’ve traced the pattern and cut the fabric for this blouse … You can find it in this book. On a different topic, I’m very excited to hear that Hillary Lang (from Wee Wonderfuls) is writing a book for Melanie Falick.