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2020 Plans
Jan. 2nd, 2020 03:52 pmPosting something like this on Instagram was FAR too overwhelming, but maybe on here it won't be so bad.
I said to some people on Saturday that I was ready to start sewing again. I started to make a list of WHAT to sew and quickly got overwhelmed. Then, yesterday, I pulled out the English gown I started at the end of 2018 and finally worked on it. Enough that the hem is reset and sewn down, the waist ties finished off, and the dress got its front hems, then its actual hem. My official resolution for 2020 sewing is taking more care in HOW I sew. I had already been thinking about it, vaguely, but I was like fine, I'll try basting up a hem before sewing it. And I'm a convert. I eyeballed the hem instead of meticulously pinning it up and pressing it. I used REALLY BIG basting stitches. Then I just rolled it up and stitched it down. The basting meant the fabric didn't shift, it stayed better, and it was so much easier to make "fine neat" stitches.
Now I am heading into Sleeve Island. Not only am I trying to fix my swallowtail jacket sleeve pattern without recutting the sleeves I made 5 years ago (b/c I don't have enough fabric leftover to cut one-piece sleeves), but i'm about to do sleeves on the English gown. I think I'd like to do long-ish sleeves, like the ones in AD's Italian gown pattern, since I am basically following that guide only with an English gown. And that sleeve looks an awful lot like the jacket sleeve, which in turn looks an awful lot like the riding habit sleeve if it were a one-piece sleeve.
Other Sleeve Islands: two WIP sweaters. Whyyyyy. Why sleeves, why. Sleeves no longer looks like a word.
( Other projects )
I said to some people on Saturday that I was ready to start sewing again. I started to make a list of WHAT to sew and quickly got overwhelmed. Then, yesterday, I pulled out the English gown I started at the end of 2018 and finally worked on it. Enough that the hem is reset and sewn down, the waist ties finished off, and the dress got its front hems, then its actual hem. My official resolution for 2020 sewing is taking more care in HOW I sew. I had already been thinking about it, vaguely, but I was like fine, I'll try basting up a hem before sewing it. And I'm a convert. I eyeballed the hem instead of meticulously pinning it up and pressing it. I used REALLY BIG basting stitches. Then I just rolled it up and stitched it down. The basting meant the fabric didn't shift, it stayed better, and it was so much easier to make "fine neat" stitches.
Now I am heading into Sleeve Island. Not only am I trying to fix my swallowtail jacket sleeve pattern without recutting the sleeves I made 5 years ago (b/c I don't have enough fabric leftover to cut one-piece sleeves), but i'm about to do sleeves on the English gown. I think I'd like to do long-ish sleeves, like the ones in AD's Italian gown pattern, since I am basically following that guide only with an English gown. And that sleeve looks an awful lot like the jacket sleeve, which in turn looks an awful lot like the riding habit sleeve if it were a one-piece sleeve.
Other Sleeve Islands: two WIP sweaters. Whyyyyy. Why sleeves, why. Sleeves no longer looks like a word.
( Other projects )
