crafty types - what projects have you got on the go?

[Biddlybee]

Cheers, thing I'll have to get someone to give me a hand.

 

[ebonics]

this is the fabric

I want to kiss this fabric on the mouth, I love it so much! Please post a picture of the dress once it's made.

As far as my own crafting goes, I think I broke my roommate's sewing machine. I have until Sunday to figure out what's wrong with it or skip town and start a life on the mean streets.

 

[Biddlybee]

If all else fails they're selling sewing machines in Lidl next week

 

[RubyToogood]

I want to kiss this fabric on the mouth, I love it so much! Please post a picture of the dress once it's made.

As far as my own crafting goes, I think I broke my roommate's sewing machine. I have until Sunday to figure out what's wrong with it or skip town and start a life on the mean streets.

I took mine to the Wimbledon Sewing Machine Company (which is in Balham) to get it repaired and serviced the other day. Bizarre place - massive warehouse full of sewing machines, and there's a sewing machine museum upstairs.

 

[Pip]

I want to kiss this fabric on the mouth, I love it so much! Please post a picture of the dress once it's made.

As far as my own crafting goes, I think I broke my roommate's sewing machine. I have until Sunday to figure out what's wrong with it or skip town and start a life on the mean streets.

There's a really old sewing machine repair shop in Parkway which is excellent.

As soon as the pattern arrives, I'm making a rip off Chanel dress
Black long sleeved shift dress with white cuffs and princess collar.

 

[ebonics]

Bless you all for trying to help me scam my way out of admitting to my roommate that I broke one more thing of hers! Unfortunately, I'm in Los Angeles. I'm sure there's...someplace... around here I can take it. If not, I plan to fake a home invasion and toss it off the balcony!

 

[spanglechick]

i start my jewellery course tomorrow at 10am. just read the email, and i'm sposed to bring a sketchbook, which i don't have. but i'm rather assuming that there will be some enterprising merchant selling them in the area of central st martins, no?

very excited!

also getting itchy to start my corset project but have nowhere to set up the fab 70s sewing machine* i got off ebay. should be picking up a little table for that soon, though (maybe tuesday night).

*not really fab, but exactly the same as my mum's, so not scary to use.

 

[Tank Girl]

ebonics, have you survived the sewing machine trauma? which option did you go for, fix or chuck off the balcony?

well today I've managed to alter the pattern and get the dress to fit a lot better, hopefully I'll get it finished on my day off this week

what fabric have you got for your corset spangles? and have a brilliant time on your course!

 

[spanglechick]

what fabric have you got for your corset spangles? and have a brilliant time on your course!

i'm making it out of peachy pink dull satin coutil (like ballet shoes), with old gold binding for the top and bottom edges and maybe to make accents over the boning. i've found some suspender elastic and clips to match the coutil too - so it'll be underwear.

if that goes ok, i've also got the bits to make a two layer one with red satin with a woven star pattern. which will be outerwear. they're both underbust - which i'm hoping will be easier... but i kind of have plans for a full length one with panels made of this excellent flamingo fabric i have. bit carried away, maybe...

 

[RubyToogood]

well today I've managed to alter the pattern and get the dress to fit a lot better, hopefully I'll get it finished on my day off this week

Stop me if I've said this before, but my top tip is to try things on inside out, over the underwear you would wear in practice, and adjust the seams with pins like that. Or at least you can put marker pins in the right places like that. But don't forget to leave yourself enough room to move.

 

[Tank Girl]

I'll use that tip in the future I'm sure this was a case of rebuilding, as the back was about 3 sizes too big

 

[*Miss*Sparkle*]

I'm off to Shambala festival at the end of august, and the fancy dress theme is Rio Carnival So I'm making myself a most excellent carnival costume - it's quite different to anything I've tried to make before so I'm sort of making it up as I go along. I've started off by making a floaty skirt thing that will attach to my wrists with cuffs so it will look like butterfly wings when I move my arms. I had no idea that it was so time consuming to sew sequins on things tho - it must have taken an entire evening to do the cuffs!