Nothing’s finished until you’ve worn it a couple days and made at least a few more edits to it, right? … More
Tag: knits
Comfy town: completed green velvet dungarees
Woohoo!! 4th(?) hand-made garment completed, including a pretty massive pattern-hacking endeavour. Plus matching scrunchie, ‘cos if it’s not face-mask fabric, … More
Green velvet joggers become dungarees
Ok kids, when I left off on these, I was wearing their basted selves for a day to see if … More
Good morning to the green velvet joggers
Ok I slept on it (briefly), and also found these very helpful looking articles on shortening front rise and back … More
Where is my waist anyway? Fitting the green velvet joggers
You can laugh, but the first easiest fit note is the one I talked myself out of at the beginning … More
Green velvet joggers waistband
First off – success enacting the method I tested towards last night, of doing the drawstring holes with a turned … More
Construction on green velvet joggers
Sewed pocket slant and finished seam with zigzag. Pattern calls to topstitch the pocket/seam down but I didn’t want to … More
Green velvet joggers get cut out – with dungaree potential
This project is a (hopefully wearable) muslin test run for half of a more ambitious dream project, the part I’m … More
Twin needle mystery
4.0mm size 75 stretch on grey knit velvet – skips lots of left stitches and tangles. On quilting cotton – … More
Mending a sweatshirt, or, How small can I swiss-darn?
Spoiler alert: smaller than I can photograph well. I love this sweatshirt, and it’s had one mend before, but now … More
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