The Sewing Room

hmo

thank you i will go and look

tiamai_d

Does anyone know a good tutorial for sewing gathered skirts to bodices (or well gathered things sewed onto straight things). I always seem to mess it up when I try.

pennib

Does anybody do shirring on dresses anymore? A friends mum used to do it in the 70s/80's and wow the little girl's dresses she made were were absolutely gorgeous. A lot of work I know but for a special dress was worth it.

genieuk

Pennib
I was going to attempt one. I have bought the elastic thread etc but not got round to it yet.
But this tutorial made it seem straight forward enough and you could easily adapt it for girls.

http://www.threadbanger.com/episode/THR_20080801

Sarahjovi

pennib wrote: »

Does anybody do shirring on dresses anymore? A friends mum used to do it in the 70s/80's and wow the little girl's dresses she made were were absolutely gorgeous. A lot of work I know but for a special dress was worth it.

If you do a search on this thread - see 'Search This Thread' at the top of the page. The are several posts about shirring.

Bunny200 origninally posted these links to tutorials
http://flossieteacakes.blogspot.com/...-tutorial.html
http://www.rufflesandstuff.com/2010/...-tutorial.html
http://www.prudentbaby.com/2010/03/s...s-pattern.html

Cheers

Sarah:D

shirlgirl2004

pennib wrote: »

Does anybody do shirring on dresses anymore? A friends mum used to do it in the 70s/80's and wow the little girl's dresses she made were were absolutely gorgeous. A lot of work I know but for a special dress was worth it.

I made one in the summer for my LO and actually it is a very quick way of making a dress and not hard work at all. The difficult bit is getting the tension right on the elastic but I just googled and found the settings someone else suggested (on the sewing forum I think) and used those and it went well. I was pleased with it.

Tamster150

the easiest thing for a beginner to start with is a Morsbag http://www.morsbags.com/html/

I would reccomend practising getting a straight seam allowance, sounds easier than it is. So things like morsbags are good because if you sewing is wonky, it is not obvious.

The Sewing forum is also good if you are looking for technical help and there is also a section for beginners projects under "sewing/current projects" http://www.thesewingforum.co.uk/index.php



This thread has got soooo big now, we could do with a sewing A-Z to put all the links under like the A-Z of craft/homemade ideas. Also a "buying a sewing machine thread" with all the reccomendations mentioned on here in one place.

A while back I went back to the beginning to try and save some of the earlier links but only got to page 8 and gave up! I keep having to search the thread to find stuff that I didn't need at the time but do now!

Wish I was more techie...

natc

Hello everyone,

Im thinking of setting up a sewing group in my area...bit of a long shot but wondered if there was anyone in Kirklees area, Dewsbury, Batley etc who maybe interested?

Please let me know

craftygranny

Bummer i moved from dewsbury last year. If i still lived there i would have joined you like a shot.

pennib

Thanks for those shirring links. That's a different way of doing it than my friend did it. She didnt use elastic but thread and I think she put little dots on in rows and used them to space the running thread. She also did different embroiderey through the shirring. You did used to get a little shirring machine which helped the ruching process but she didnt use one. They were stunning when she finished.