Niece1 has a birthday coming up, and after a few "what does she want for her birthday?" texts to my sister, I finally got a request for something I should be able to make in time. I'm trying a new-to-me pattern brand because this is the sling style backpack she chose.
The instructions look decent at first glance (lots of photo step-by-step) but I have to admit I'm a little annoyed by the "rough draft" feel of the pattern pieces - lots of random dips and points instead of smooth curves and lines. So I'm cleaning up the pieces and smoothing everything out before I do anything else. And just from walking the pieces together, I can tell the corrections will make for easier assembly in the end. I know it's possible to correct for things like this as you sew, but why not do it in the first place and save yourself the fiddling required later?
#bagmaking #CloudsplitterBags #SummitPack
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 finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
