The Sewing Room

rufusdog52

You can use a sheet for the backing Pootle, I nearly always use poly-cotton sheeting on the backs of mine. You can buy it by the metre from Dunelm its about 3.99 a metre I think and its wide enough for double, I think its about 90 inches wide.

£7.50 a metre sounds a good price per metre to me for 100% cotton. I am not sure what my local quilting shop is selling it for these days as I havent been there for a while and its all gone up over the last few months.

Just make sure what you are getting for the top is 100% cotton as if you mix poly and cotton squares they dont always look as nice as if its all cotton on the top bit.

jemtom

thanks pootle never knew that, will get some today and then i can make a start next week. i got a book out of the library called the christmas book which is where i got my patterns and the idea from so wanted to get it done before i took the book back!

PootleFlump_3

jemtom, here is the tutorial for the freezer paper thing.

http://latabledenana.blogspot.com/2010/04/soul-food-50.html

Oliviasmom

Hi, have read a few posts and Im interested in starting to sew even though i didnt listen much at school. found this on my local gumtree and was wondering if anyone could advise me on whether it was good or not?

Its on for £50 and has never been used-Brother XL2120 Sewing Machine?

Thanks in advance

PootleFlump_3

Oliviasmom wrote: »

Hi, have read a few posts and Im interested in starting to sew even though i didnt listen much at school. found this on my local gumtree and was wondering if anyone could advise me on whether it was good or not?

Its on for £50 and has never been used-Brother XL2120 Sewing Machine?

Thanks in advance

I think it looks fine for a basic machine. I would be inclined to check the weight of it as anything thats too light can end up bouncing around if you use a fast stitch. It has a drop in bobbin which is good and Im assuming you can lower the feed dogs if you need to as it has a quilting stitch but again I would check to make sure just incase you ever decide to do quilting on any great scale. It has a free arm too and snap on feet which IMO is always a good thing. Overall it seems to get good reviews and Brother machines are generally pretty good.x

http://www.littlewoods.com/brother-sewing-machine-xl2120/143370090.prd#powerReviews

Edit: Ive just checked the weight and its fine. Shouldnt move at all. Same weight as my machine and no issues.

mysk_girl

Well, mini-mysk's in bed, OH no doubt well and truly leathered on the cricket club do, washing up not done, cleaning not done (tomorrow morning after the brats wake up circa 5am and before OH back circa lunchtime - plenty of time!). I'm going to a joint birthday party tomorrow for 2 friends of mine, so 2 of these

http://www.noodle-head.com/2010/04/gathered-clutch-tutorial.html

on the agenda for this evening. Baby-mysk still grumbling, but toddler-mysk is out for the count! Onwards and inwards :-) happy Saturday evening sewing peeps, off to crank up the iPod :-)

mysk_girl

And here is the first one - I don't think I'm going get 2 done tonight...

Keiss_21

A brilliant little clutch bag mysk_girl, hope you get the next one done tonight . I usually find the second one takes less time to make up than the first, as you have already sussed out the whole sewing and making up process. Well done :T

Still no sewing done....been decorating again today, but have at last finished the painting!! :j DH even managed to clean and stain two of the three outside sides today. So the conservatory is looking amazing, both inside and out, even though I say so myself

Here's hoping I can get some sewing done later on the week. DS1 is home for a good while atm, so I can't even nab his room to sew Still, he's back to uni in less than four weeks...then I can take over his room again until December!! :rotfl:

hmo

Oliviasmom wrote: »

Hi, have read a few posts and Im interested in starting to sew even though i didnt listen much at school. found this on my local gumtree and was wondering if anyone could advise me on whether it was good or not?

Its on for £50 and has never been used-Brother XL2120 Sewing Machine?

Thanks in advance

ive just found it here
http://www.sewingmachines.co.uk/brotherxl2120AG_info.htm

it says it has a feed cover which i think means you cannot drop the feed dogs, you have to place a small plastic cover over them to do free needle work, ie quilting or sewing on buttons.

hmo

just saying hi ive not been on much this week we managed to pick up some more oak units for our kitchen that match the ones we bought a few months ago so dh has been moving things around and we also managed to get some oak doors to match so ive had carcases made to make them into wall cupboards

Ive been goafer whilst he puts everything into place not even been able to sew anything either:(

great makes though everyone