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Tete_en_l'Air

Hello all, haven't been posting for ages as don't have time to sew a lot at the min, but I have been lurking. Just wanted to show off my cushion cover, which was a little girl's dress from Next via charity shop, even the plain red bits are made from the lining.



Hmm, Dinah is my 'real-life' sewing class partner, she's putting me to shame!

ETA - Hart, I'm the oppposite at 6ft, that's why I'm looking at making a maxi dress myself as the ones in the shops are never quite maxi enough!

hart44

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Hello all, haven't been posting for ages as don't have time to sew a lot at the min, but I have been lurking. Just wanted to show off my cushion cover, which was a little girl's dress from Next via charity shop, even the plain red bits are made from the lining.



Hmm, Dinah is my 'real-life' sewing class partner, she's putting me to shame!

ETA - Hart, I'm the oppposite at 6ft, that's why I'm looking at making a maxi dress myself as the ones in the shops are never quite maxi enough!

I love the cushion, such beautiful colours :T
The clothes are not made for real people and they seem to think we are all 5'' 8

Forgot to add, my Yo Yo makers came today http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac266/hart4334/mse/yoyomakers.jpg
One is a butterfly and the other a heart (well I just had to have that one) I cann't wait to have a play

Kandipandi

I love your cushion Tete - it's lovely to be able to take something you can't use and turn it into something else you can.

dizzytina

Morning everyone,

Dinah your dress is amazing. I bought a smock dress pattern to make a dress for my little girl. i have cut out all the pieces but haven't started putting it together as it just seems so much more complicated than when i last made one at school (mind that was 20 years ago!!) and all the terminology is confusing me.

I am also scared of zips i just don't know where to start. Also do i need a special foot for my machine? I only have one foot and i thought i need to change it for zips or can i use the one that came with my Brother machine?

Kandipandi

You will need a zip foot, but with your brother machine is there not one in the little pack that came with it, that contains spare needles and a screwdriver?

lellypants

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Hello all, haven't been posting for ages as don't have time to sew a lot at the min, but I have been lurking. Just wanted to show off my cushion cover, which was a little girl's dress from Next via charity shop, even the plain red bits are made from the lining.



Hmm, Dinah is my 'real-life' sewing class partner, she's putting me to shame!

ETA - Hart, I'm the oppposite at 6ft, that's why I'm looking at making a maxi dress myself as the ones in the shops are never quite maxi enough!

It's very pretty. And I'm 6 feet too! but I'm also about 6 feet around so I need a plus size long length maxi dress. :eek:

Tete_en_l'Air

I'm sure you're not! It's the good thing about making your own clothes though, you get a tailored fit whatever your shape or size, if you do it right that is! Not sure I'm quite there yet!

Dinah93

PootleFlump wrote: »

Dinah your dress is great - fits like a glove!
Re jersey dress, do you have to change the tension on your machine or use a different kind of needle? I want to make a copy of a jersey dress I already have but Im a bit scared of the material and have never used it before. Any tips would be welcome!

A slight ig zag stitch and a ballpoint needle, the stitch isnt a VVVV more of a --v--v--v stitch (but the dashes at the top of the v!), like an elongated blind hem stitch. I've been playing about with scraps, hope to start on the actual dress tonight.

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Hello all, haven't been posting for ages as don't have time to sew a lot at the min, but I have been lurking. Just wanted to show off my cushion cover, which was a little girl's dress from Next via charity shop, even the plain red bits are made from the lining.



Hmm, Dinah is my 'real-life' sewing class partner, she's putting me to shame!

ETA - Hart, I'm the oppposite at 6ft, that's why I'm looking at making a maxi dress myself as the ones in the shops are never quite maxi enough!

Your cushion is gorgeous and you find the best fabrics - and your first project certainly went better than mine. I just have more time atm to fiddle about.

dizzytina wrote: »

Morning everyone,

Dinah your dress is amazing. I bought a smock dress pattern to make a dress for my little girl. i have cut out all the pieces but haven't started putting it together as it just seems so much more complicated than when i last made one at school (mind that was 20 years ago!!) and all the terminology is confusing me.

I am also scared of zips i just don't know where to start. Also do i need a special foot for my machine? I only have one foot and i thought i need to change it for zips or can i use the one that came with my Brother machine?

Aye you need a zipper foot, but try ebay, I picked one up for my Janome for only about £3 + postage. There are some good video tutorials on youtube, or google for lapped zip tutorial.

Really annoyed, I ordered some veil patterns about 10 days ago, and they're still not here - don't they get its going to take me months to embroider the damned thing and I'm bored and want to make a start!

Georgiabay

23rdspiral, the trouble with my patchwork is when I look at it now I can see if I'd taken more thought with the arrangement of shades and colours it could either look like building block steps or flower shapes because I've used diamonds. When I started it I couldn't wait to start sewing it together and just added pieces randomly. Then as time went on and I'd done more dressmaking so got different materials I realised that if I hadn't got much of something from the beginning it would only end up in one part of the patchwork. I think I'm going to make a bag out of it but I've got loads of diamonds cut up plus the spare material so I might do something with them that's a bit more thought out.

Georgiabay

Dinah, your dress is lovely and fits very well.
Tete, lovely bright cushion.