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dizzytina

Mooloo wrote: »

Last night I got onto Pinterest. Addictive or what that site. Linking off all over the place to some recycling projects.
Have some Tshirt weaving to inspire me now. Was doing it at midnight just to see if I could do it!. yeah what great fun.

Pinterest is fab isnt it. I have thousands of pins on my boards - like i am ever going to get the time to get through all those:rotfl: but its so addictive!!. It does help you organise websites etc too as its far easier to find on a board than rummage through my random scribbles in notebooks, back of bank statements,post it notes and everywhere else i use to write down good website!!!:D xx

dizzytina

Mooloo wrote: »

She is mentioned in this months edition of Cloth. (edit. no its not the same one as the mag.) There are some great bloggers out there who fuel my inspiration and as I am rather long in the tooth to wear the garments doing them for the younger set is at least fun.
this Thursday I worked on half a dozen pairs of shorts, appliqu!s of flowers on to cropped thirsts, removed sleeves from a tunic and turned it into a shift dress, did two tshirt weaves and started on a cut work, reverse appliqu! on a sweatshirt.
That lot took me 6 hours.
But it meant that I have invoiced out £135 of work this week. Which isn't bad for my second week of trading.

Well done Mooloo thats really fab to say its only your second week of trading:T. It gives you such a sense of achievement doesnt it. Registering my own company when my facebook pages suddenyl took off was the best thing i did. I am coming to the end of my first year of trading in July and am on my second sewing machine due to the amount of items i have sewn and have even been able to set up my own craft supply shop funded through the money made from the handmade side of my business. To think i couldnt even sew 2 years ago till i joined the lovely people on here and was inspired by everyone to give it ago i can't thank all the lovely MSE's enough .
Now i have been AWOL from this fab thread for nearly a year due to being sooo busy i'm off to try and catch up xxx

dizzytina

hmo wrote: »

a quick and simple plain oven mat transformed with a bit of appliqu! details on my blog

Love this HMO !! x

aless02

Hi - I'm a super duper newbie to sewing and have just acquired my first machine. My question is...I am assuming the cheapest, thriftiest way to acquire fabric is to trawl charity shops and car boots? I have nothing to budget for this new venture, so I guess 'reclaiming' is the way to go!

hmo

aless02 wrote: »

Hi - I'm a super duper newbie to sewing and have just acquired my first machine. My question is...I am assuming the cheapest, thriftiest way to acquire fabric is to trawl charity shops and car boots? I have nothing to budget for this new venture, so I guess 'reclaiming' is the way to go!

hi and welcome yes i suppose thats the way to go, have to got any old sheets, tea towels or clothes you could cut up and practice sewing straight lines etc to get the feel of your machine.

ScarlettOHara_2

or get some curtain lining. A metre will only cost about £3-4 and you can get plenty of practice on pieces of that. I got through a 7 week starting to sew course with less than that.

Savvy_sewing

I am lucky enough to have horded fabrics over the years, and have so much to feed my need at the moment. But you can bet your bottom dollar that there is always something that I want to do, and haven't got exactly what I want to do it with!.
But I am trying to tame my self, and use up what I can.
I have managed to make the last Three lots of bunting with the things that I have all around me. So it does make up for the fact that I wasn't really getting enough money for what I was making. I have put my prices up now, and the higher price has been accepted with out any problems. So I was probably far too cheap anyway.

I took my bobbins in with me to work today. It was much easier to swap things around when I have about 20 different colours to go on the bottom of things.
The things that I altered with the overlocker were fine, it took longer to keep changing the threads then it was to do the sewing of the garments.!

I am tired now. Its going to be a while before I get used to working for so long in any one day. I do stop to have a cuppa, and eat my sandwich, but I haven't anything else to do while I am there so I just get my head down and carry on.
Today saw me working on crop tops, shorts, hoodies, and adding lace to things. It was fine, but I wouldn't like to do it all day every day. But when I consider that I can invoice them £43 for today. Well it seems worth it.
I managed to do the Bunting for one of the MSE folk, that's been on order for a while. (Was waiting for confirmation of the fabrics). So one left to go and I am all up to date. Hopefully I will get that started tomorrow. May not get it finished though, family commitments this week seem to be high on the agenda.

Savvy_sewing

ScarlettOHara wrote: »

or get some curtain lining. A metre will only cost about £3-4 and you can get plenty of practice on pieces of that. I got through a 7 week starting to sew course with less than that.

That's a good idea. We can get polycottons on the market for £1.99 a metre.
Suppose it depends on what your planning to make.

blondy24

Hello, does anyone know/have any patterns for cushions 16 x 16 inches without a zip, preferably envelope style at the back.

trix-a-belle

blondy24 wrote: »

Hello, does anyone know/have any patterns for cushions 16 x 16 inches without a zip, preferably envelope style at the back.

Cut your fabric the width you want the cushion plus seam allowances, by 2 & a third widths plus hem allowances long (assuming square cushion)
Hem the short sides
Fold into 3 (right sides together) so you have the equivalent of a third of the cushion front overlapping so your cushion cover is now square
Sew down the open sides
Turn out the right way & insert cushion pad

Hopefully that makes enough sense to follow, fabulously easy & quick no zips or buttons, & no pattern required