What OS sewing have you done today?

luxor4t

KT1985 wrote: »

I made some envelope cushions today out of a table cloth I bought in a charity shop for £1.95 and some ribbon I bought for 20p.

Any ideas of other beginners sewing projects?

How about a fabric carrier bag? details here: http://www.morsbags.com/

More ideas on this great site: http://sewing.about.com/od/freeprojects/tp/beginnerprojects.htm

Have fun & keep us posted!

jollymummy

Sounds great KT. I fancy doing something for fun rather than for someone specific or for my online shop. so I've cut out a little felt owl and I'm going to do a bit of freestyle embroidery on him, while I watch The Apprentice.

jollymummy

PS Here's a couple of sewing links, I'm sure I have stackes more somewhere!
http://sewing.about.com/od/freeprojects/Free_Sewing_Patterns.htm
http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/
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Butterfly_Brain

Just had to throw out an old jacket of DH it was so old and moth eaten plus he cant't get into it anymore - so I have cut off all the buttons and put them in my button box - ready for when I have finished knitting him a double breasted cardi and put the jacket in the recycling.
Buttons and material are so expensive now I try not to waste anything that I can utilise elsewhere.

luxor4t

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Just had to throw out an old jacket of DH it was so old and moth eaten plus he cant't get into it anymore - so I have cut off all the buttons and put them in my button box - ready for when I have finished knitting him a double breasted cardi and put the jacket in the recycling.
Buttons and material are so expensive now I try not to waste anything that I can utilise elsewhere.

Good idea - I've got a set of lovely buttons from a charity shop Viyella jacket waiting to be used, BUT I put my button tin somewhere safe and can't find it :rotfl:

KT1985

I bought loads of buttons really cheaply from our local dept stores haberdashery dept- I asked what they do with odd packets of buttons or ones where a button or two has gone walkies, and she produced a big basket. I ended up buying nearly all of them for about 2 pounds.

I am very new to sewing, and have been shocked at the cost of some supplies, especially fabric itself. I have bought some gorgeous fabric from Ikea for not too much though.

Bunny200

KT1985 wrote: »

I am very new to sewing, and have been shocked at the cost of some supplies, especially fabric itself. I have bought some gorgeous fabric from Ikea for not too much though.

I agree, I find that my sewing for enjoyment rather than to be frugal, having said that this site is not badly priced, found some material for 60p a metre that I'm going to use to make a toy bag for the kids! Also ordered some tie dye cotton fabric for £2.49/metre which I'm going to use to make this. Of course there are postage fees to pay as well. I ordered the fabric yesterday so I'll let you know what its like, always a danger ordering over the net when you can't touch and see the fabric but 9/10 its ok, just if you were trying to colour match something!

Butterfly_Brain

Bunny200 wrote: »

I agree, I find that my sewing for enjoyment rather than to be frugal, having said that this site is not badly priced, found some material for 60p a metre that I'm going to use to make a toy bag for the kids! Also ordered some tie dye cotton fabric for £2.49/metre which I'm going to use to make this. Of course there are postage fees to pay as well. I ordered the fabric yesterday so I'll let you know what its like, always a danger ordering over the net when you can't touch and see the fabric but 9/10 its ok, just if you were trying to colour match something!

Thanks for the link Bunny

luxor4t

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Thanks for the link Bunny

And from me, what an interesting selection of Xmas fabrics, roll on October :xmassmile

Rikki

Does anyone else sew their own clothes for more information, fabric and pattern links.