Welcome! I’m so happy you’ve decided to join us in The Sewing Sphere!
I miss the days when the online sewing community was about sewing and general fun. Connections were easier to make and friendships easier to build before algorithms jumbled everything up and only let some people see what you shared. I want to build a welcoming community that enjoys sharing many varieties of creativity and talent – not just sewing. We all have lives outside of sewing, and we can all inspire and learn from each other in so many ways.
I love learning, and I have discovered a love for teaching too. Useful skills should be passed on to those who want to learn, and not guarded like magical secrets. There is plenty of room for everyone. And I truly believe that the more people who understand the time and skill that goes into sewing (and making in general), the more the rest of the world will come to value what we do.
I’d like this little sphere of the internet to be a place where people come to get away from the daily stress and hostility that is so prevalent on all the other social media platforms. For now, I just want to create a space to hang out with friends and perhaps do some live chats. In the future, I may offer premium content on this Locals platform, such as sewing videos/lessons. Let me know if you have ideas or suggestions for any other types of content you’d like to see from me.
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Escape the algorithms. Enjoy old-fashioned chronological feed order. And hang out with sewing friends in The Sewing Sphere!
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I keep meaning to cut something new out to sew, and keep not having time. But in the meantime, I thought I’d show something I started several weeks ago. About two years ago, a geography project that was in our curriculum was to create an embroidery design, the unit was on Ukraine and this had to do with traditional embroidered garments. So my oldest made this design, and asked if I’d use it in my own sewing sometime. I had to sit on this one for awhile to plot what to do, but I finally started it. Last year’s ice dyeing had this leftover sweatshirt fleece from some shirts I made when the boys were younger, but it only dyed on the back side. So I’m using reverse embroidery to put his design on the front piece of this sweatshirt, so I can also use that piece of fabric in a way that won’t look like my clothes are inside out. I also have a back yoke piece cut, but I’m only getting to work on this around once a week right now, so I’ll need to either speed this up or drop that ...
I just need to vent. I was hemming some jeans today and one leg was perfect. Did it in one try. The other? It took 4 times of sewing and picking it out! I’m done now but that was such a pain. I hate stretch denim so much. Can anyone else relate?
Almost time to start quilting panels for my jacket pieces. I have one more front section to piece and I need to lengthen the hood pattern (why does everyone always draft hoods too short?) and then I can make "sandwiches."
I took this photo before I stitched a strip of background fabric to each side of the stripes so that the pattern piece of the jacket back is completely covered.
