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#HolidayPhotoHop2020 Day 1!
Post your photo for the prompt Red and introduce yourself to everyone. I've posted mine.
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Welcome to all the new people who have recently joined The Sewing Sphere community! I know Locals can be a little confusing since it's such a new platform. Think of it as a combination of Twitter, FB/IG, and Patreon. The Phone app is really great and amazingly functional - I highly recommend it.
All who join each individual Locals community can read & like the posts that aren't set for "subscribers only". If you subscribe to a specific community, all the features are available to you and you can read comments, comment yourself, share links, photos, and videos.
To subscribe to The Sewing Sphere, go to sewingsphere.locals.com in a browser (not the app) and go to "manage support". When you enter a credit card, use the promo code GRATEFUL2 and you'll get two months free. After that, it's only $2 a month or whatever amount you choose to give above that, and you can always unsubscribe (but I hope you won't want to!) if you don't like it.
Subscriptions are processed by a company called Stripe, and the money goes directly to support each community creator (in this case, me) - similar to how Patreon works.
I hope you'll all subscribe with the promo code so you can participate in the photo challenge! If you have any questions or problems subscribing, please email me at [email protected]
I have only seen good improvements as Locals grows, and I love how creators have so much control over their communities without any Big Tech overlords to mess things up. Let's make this the social media place to be because we're allowed to make it whatever we want! I'm so glad you've joined me here!
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 thought you all might be interested to know what happened to the original treadle base on my antique Singer. This was all my husband’s doing, as he’s wanted to try this project for years. He’s gotten into woodworking this past year, so he’s got more of the skills now. The table portion is from a fold-down IKEA table that used to be my cutting table, back in the pre-kid days when I had a whole room for sewing. (It’s been living in the basement folded up for years, mostly used for garden seed storage and a few small tools.) He added the sink basin and faucet. We’re debating about me making a small curtain underneath that would hide the pipe work, while still showing the treadle base.
This project sparked another room makeover, though this one is our half-bath so it isn’t nearly as involved as our kitchen and kids’ rooms have been. Several of the other items in the picture came from a couple of local antique shops, though the old milk crate belonged to my husband’s ...
I haven't been sewing since a big project finished about a month ago - I'm just burned out (will post photos at some point).
After a couple exhausting weekends of installing a new dishwasher because my 29 year-old mechanical stopped rinsing properly 😥, I was motivated enough to start reorganizating the rest of the kitchen. It's always a domino effect, and I'm still not finished, but I washed the curtain I made a million years ago and properly dusted/washed all the pitchers and decorations on the window shelves. (I even polished the formica tabletop!) So the window area was photo-worthy.
Back when made the curtain, I was smart and used velcro instead of a curtain rod. I put a male sticky-back strip on the top of the mini-blind housing and sewed a soft female strip of regular velcro onto the curtain. The curtain itself is all one piece gathered to that strip of velcro - easy to pull off and throw in the laundry (not that i overcome laziness and actually wash it regularly but whatever).
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Been so busy, I forgot to share photos of the final Paquita costume! Well, most of these photos are “semi-final”—after the photoshoot and first dress rehearsal, his teacher asked me to tweak the front seams below the waist so they would stay close to the body (not flare out like in the photoshoot) when his arms were up. This involved re-doing the bottom trim but the final result was worth it, so! The full sleeves were not as dramatic as we thought they were going to be, but still a nice effect. I really love the elbow sleeve detail and maybe will post more about it later.
