The Sewing Sphere
Art • Beauty & Fashion
Escape the algorithms. Enjoy old-fashioned chronological feed order. And hang out with sewing friends in The Sewing Sphere!
Interested? Want to learn more about the community?
Christmas Photo Challenge Day 1

It's here, it's here!
#HolidayPhotoHop2020 Day 1!

Post your photo for the prompt Red and introduce yourself to everyone. I've posted mine.

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

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!

post photo preview
Interested? Want to learn more about the community?
What else you may like…
Videos
Posts
Studio video tour!

I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild

00:03:06
Paint!

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

00:02:15
Time-lapse floor install (part 2)

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

00:03:11

YIKESSSSSSSSSSSSSS....... Folkwear Croatian Shirt Faillll...
I thought, "This shirt has no fitting whatsoever. Surely I don't need to muslin this, just use my measurements... " HA.

I'm sending you to the link b/c I think you should know about patternreview.com if you don't. But yikes.
https://sewing.patternreview.com/review/pattern/208009

Oh, I got the fabric from a deadstock place in Singapore (which ickily shipped from China) and I'm 75% pleased with that. The fabric is super comfy and soft, and it showed up quickly... but there were a couple of holes. Bubbo, fwiw.

post photo preview
The Plan

So this is my plan for all those fabric covered triangles. Make eleventy million little triangles into a million slightly bigger triangles. Then make those into a bunch of hexagons and put them all together into a giant hexagon.

The last photo is my "map" once I've made all the triangles. Colored outlines are just so I can see the hexagons because I'll get better joins at the points if I assemble like this instead of long straight runs of rows of triangles. Plus it will be easier to hold smaller sections as I hand-stitch.

I think I only have about 150 papers left to cover with fabric, but I need to start laying what I have out to see if I need any specific colors (maybe some lighter highlights).

Any guesses what my inspiration is? I'll put the answer/photo in the comments.

#epp

My current pile of triangles

I cut more fabric triangles and am in the process of basting them to the papers. We'll see how many more I need after I baste these. I'm guessing I'll still have about 200 or more papers left.

#epp

post photo preview
See More
Available on mobile and TV devices
google store google store app store app store
google store google store app tv store app tv store amazon store amazon store roku store roku store
Powered by Locals