The Sewing Room

Tamster150

Kaz2904 wrote: »

I'm doing the quilt along on crazymomquilts' blog. It was her first quilt along from November 2007. I may actually redo this square as I'm using old duvet covers of DD's and DS's. They are all polycotton but I would prefer to use cheap fabric which I was only going to charity bag anyway. That way I can get to grips with using the machine and the cutter etc before I do her star quilt along.
I realised that I may have struggles though soon as I only have cms marked on my cutting mat and she measures in "s. I have been picking up some bits of cotton along the way and think I now have enough but it's not all pretty. I only have 1 piece which is patterned the others are all plain.
My sister will get some fabric from her local fabric shop when she goes there as she only paid £3.99 per 4 fat quarters. Pretty decent price for pretty patterns huh?

I never use the markings on the cutting mat. I only use my ruler.

MissPixie

I am glad you said that Tamster because I was hoping it would be okay to just rely on my ruler for markings because my cutting mat is only cms as well but it was so much cheaper than any others I have seen it was worth it!

hart44

I use my ruler too (I have 3 that I use a lot) my cutting board is to stop me from vandalising my desk with the rotary cutter :rotfl:

MissPixie

You should see the state of my old crafty desk that is now my dressing table I use to do a lot of art work with craft knives and wire and pliers and looks like it has been hacked to pieces! I thought it would be best to keep the little desk in my craft room safe so I can still do anything inolving paper on it because you can't even write on a piece of paper on the old desk now without it coming out all bumpy and full of holes woops..

polkadot

tiamai_d wrote: »

Or two longer slits so that the full strap can go hrough and then velcro to close it? If you have any idea what I'm on about! :rotfl:

I do-thanks for that.And I need to get some velcro anyway because I'm making some "bean bags" to attach to serving trays to make lap trays.My polystyrene baalls arrived today and I got some lovely trays from tesco the other day for £3 each-just need to find something strong enough to stick the velcro to the plastic tray.

DH is working tomorrow so I'm going to get stuck in...ironing and cutting patterns and fabric tonight.

ClickSim

hart44 wrote: »

Hope you can get some good advice on a machine if not we are all here to help
When I 1st started sewing I wanted to make so much (still do :rotfl:) but I had to start with a basic tote bag as I had not sewn since school (I made some Bay City Roller trousers so now you know how long ago that was :rotfl:) and Im glad I did as it has given me the confidence to get on with my machine and work my way up to bigger things

Thanks Hart. Those trousers must have needed a good bit of fabric :rotfl:Have you made anything tartan since?

The machines at the craft fair were all scary computerised ones that seemed to be able to embroider by themselves Harry Potter-style. My little sis got a basic Brother machine from Argos and she seems to like it. I'll look back on the thread for any other machine recommendations.

irishgirl62

hart44 wrote: »

Hope you can get some good advice on a machine if not we are all here to help
When I 1st started sewing I wanted to make so much (still do :rotfl:) but I had to start with a basic tote bag as I had not sewn since school (I made some Bay City Roller trousers so now you know how long ago that was :rotfl:) and Im glad I did as it has given me the confidence to get on with my machine and work my way up to bigger things

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: my parents and my friends parents forbade us to wear bay city rollers trousers .. i found an old tartan kilt spent ages ironing the creases out and sewed them on my trousers and all my friends trousers too!! I was grounded for ages for doing that but it was worth it tho!! cos they still talk about it to this day :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

hart44

irishgirl62 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: my parents and my friends parents forbade us to wear bay city rollers trousers .. i found an old tartan kilt spent ages ironing the creases out and sewed them on my trousers and all my friends trousers too!! I was grounded for ages for doing that but it was worth it tho!! cos they still talk about it to this day :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl:The trouser's turned out horrid, I had to use a normal pattern and crop it. The fabric I had was a nasty crimpene type stuff, the sewing teacher was no help back then and I never wore them. I only did them under protest as the teacher said I had to make an item of clothing and back then I only wanted to embroider :rotfl: I think that put me off sewing then till now.
I met the Bay City Rollers (well 3 of them) when I was 28yrs when the came and did a dance at our small village hall :rotfl: talk about desperate :rotfl: it was good though :rotfl:

Prudent

MissPixie wrote: »

Jumped on the bandwagon and started a blog tis not the greatest of things but hopefully it will get better.

http://misspixieworks.blogspot.com/

Some lovely things on your blog Miss Pixie. I absolutely loved Mojo the junk cat!

rufusdog52

hart44 wrote: »

:rotfl:The trouser's turned out horrid, I had to use a normal pattern and crop it. The fabric I had was a nasty crimpene type stuff, the sewing teacher was no help back then and I never wore them. I only did them under protest as the teacher said I had to make an item of clothing and back then I only wanted to embroider :rotfl: I think that put me off sewing then till now.
I met the Bay City Rollers (well 3 of them) when I was 28yrs when the came and did a dance at our small village hall :rotfl: talk about desperate :rotfl: it was good though :rotfl:

Wasn't it good though that we had "sewing teachers", my daughter who is 15 can't believe that we were actually taught how to sew at school lol