The client chose an unusually stiff main fabric for dining room curtains, so Janet and I had to troubleshoot by making a couple samples. Client wanted teal bottom band and woven ribbon trim, but it didn't hang well with the stiff print (pic 2).
Controlled pleats work much better, and as I suspected, a vertical teal band keeps the two very different fabrics from fighting (1st photo). We decided to set the woven ribbon aside for table runner and placemats when we get to that stage of decor.
We're treating the three narrow windows as one and will be erasing the arches that don't match any of the other windows with a soft cornice box hanging over the bar - see sketch in pic 4.
#curtains #homedecor
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
Apparently I’m now collecting vintage sewing machines, though I think I’m going to have to cut this off at two for space reasons. My husband and I went to an antique shop downstate that we visited last year and liked, and we found this. It’s very compact because it uses a hand crank instead of a treadle or foot pedal. As far as I can tell in my research, this company was the first to manufacture sewing machines in England, and based on some pictures that I found, it looks like it was made somewhere between 1902 and 1906. This bobbin looks so crazy to me!
I’m pondering something for a current refashion project, and thought I’d get some input. I’m turning one of my old knit dresses into a skirt, because the bodice never lay quite right and I think I’d get a lot more use out of it as a separate. (Plus it already has pockets!) I was playing around originally with just turning the original midriff piece into an elastic casing, but it’s way too bulky with all of the gathering. So now I’m removing the piece altogether, and discovering that apparently I did the gathering directly onto this piece, it’s not holding together with the mesh lining as I’m removing it. (Bad younger me.) I’d really like to preserve this lovely gathering, but I do also need to retain the stretch or it’ll never fit. For now, I’m clipping the heck out of it as I go, but I need to figure out how to baste this back together without losing the stretch, and also what to use as a waistband. Should I try removing that gathering in the midriff piece and use ...
I’m a bit behind on sharing. I can’t show my most recent finished project (two of the women in my book club are sisters whose kids play sports at different local high schools, so one of them paid me to mash up tees from each school into something for their mom to wear to games when her grandkids are playing each other — she loved it!) But I can show the low-budget Viking costume that I made for my older son’s end of year history writing/oral report project. He chose to do his paper on Leif Erikson. The pants and shoes were things he owned. The tunic was a bedsheet and trim from Michael’s. I found the pattern free online, though I had to fudge it a bit under the arms because the proportions were meant for an adult, not a 5th grader. The armor piece was a suede-looking quilted pillowcase that conveniently matched the look of his inspiration picture, and even more conveniently already had a button closure on the back side. All I had to do was remove the rectangle bits that made the ...
