The Sewing Room

ilovepugs

evening ladies, hope everyones well.
Now i need some advice, i would like to make fabric shapes etc, now ive heard of Big Shot, Cricut etc, but unsure which one if any will suit.Id like to make my own appliques etc.

Any advice, gratefully received.

Thanks. x

PootleFlump_3

ilovepugs wrote: »

evening ladies, hope everyones well.
Now i need some advice, i would like to make fabric shapes etc, now ive heard of Big Shot, Cricut etc, but unsure which one if any will suit.Id like to make my own appliques etc.

Any advice, gratefully received.

Thanks. x

Cant comment on big shot or cricut but I have a silhouette and you can pretty much cut whatever shapes you want and download from the web rather than buying dies etc. You just iron wonder under onto your fabric then cut whatever shapes you like. x

ilovepugs

many thanks pootle, i shall look into this.

In_Search_Of_Me

PootleFlump wrote: »

Welcome to the thread TryingtoSwim.

Ive not really been making anything recently but am popping in every day as usual to see what you have all been up to (and you have all been busier than me by the looks of it!)

Can anyone help me please. Ive been practising doing hexies but Im a bit confused as some of the tutorials tell you to sew through the paper and other say not to as they are more difficult to come out. Can anyone who has done hexies tell me which is best please. Im doing 2" ones. Also, does anyone else cut squares rather than hexies out of the fabric? One of the books I have says you can just cut squares to make it easier but im not sure if there will be too much fabric given that my hexies are quite a bit size.

Thanks peeps. x

hi pootle! are you doing hexes for english paper piecing or just cutting shapes and sewing? I find it easier to cut hexes with scissors tbh...I made a template and draw round it with pen/chalk and then cut with scissors. If youre doing paper piecing you need extra to wrap; this may help!

http://www.amygunson.com/Sewing/Paper%20Piecing.pdf

In_Search_Of_Me

ilovepugs wrote: »

evening ladies, hope everyones well.
Now i need some advice, i would like to make fabric shapes etc, now ive heard of Big Shot, Cricut etc, but unsure which one if any will suit.Id like to make my own appliques etc.

Any advice, gratefully received.

Thanks. x

apparently big shot allows you to cut paper and fabric; i used to have one and sold it when I flogged all my scrapbooking stuff! Dont miss it tbh...use my rotary cutter much more or good old scissors and template! Plus the dies are very expensive...hth?:D

hmo

big shot and cuttlebug are manual die cutters, in other words you buy a pre shaped die and put it through the machine and can cut fabric, felt, card, chipboard etc etc

sillhouette, cricut, pazzles are electronic cutting machines which means with the excepttion of the cricut you can take any shape either draw in the software that comes with the machine, our get a shape off the net or even a jpeg, tiff, gif and turn them into a cutting template.

cricut uses cartridges which again can be costly.

i used to sell the craft robo (same as silhouette) but only would cut lightweitgh card and wouldnt cut fabric that good. i also design and sell basic tutorials for that machine.

i now only sell the pazzles inspiration its more money but does so much more and cuts alot bigger.

it will cut fabric you have to use a stiffening ive used bondaaweb and it cuts great

hope that helps

Sarahjovi

hmo wrote: »

big shot and cuttlebug are manual die cutters, in other words you buy a pre shaped die and put it through the machine and can cut fabric, felt, card, chipboard etc etc

sillhouette, cricut, pazzles are electronic cutting machines which means with the excepttion of the cricut you can take any shape either draw in the software that comes with the machine, our get a shape off the net or even a jpeg, tiff, gif and turn them into a cutting template.

cricut uses cartridges which again can be costly.

i used to sell the craft robo (same as silhouette) but only would cut lightweitgh card and wouldnt cut fabric that good. i also design and sell basic tutorials for that machine.

i now only sell the pazzles inspiration its more money but does so much more and cuts alot bigger.

it will cut fabric you have to use a stiffening ive used bondaaweb and it cuts great

hope that helps

Will it cut felt?

Cheers

Sarah:D

hmo

Sarahjovi wrote: »

Will it cut felt?

Cheers

Sarah:D

yes it does again you have to bondaweb it, having said that i have cut some felt in the past thats already stiff without bondaweb.

i did two cushions recently they are on my blog with an applique elephant on, and the ear was felt and body fabric



not the greatest photo but the pink ear is felt

Tamster150

hmo wrote: »

i thought i had asked this question recently but cannot find anything.

i wanted to have a go at a very simple summer dress for my 8 yr old, i cannot do shirring elastic on my machine so thats out.

i need a very simple basic dress pattern thats super easy as ive not made anything like this before, aslo i dont know about patterns:)

something that has thin straps not sleeves

any reccommendations please

how about this one?

http://www.oliverands.com/blog/2009/08/popover-sundress-free-downloadable-pattern.html

Tamster150

Thanks everyone for my birthday messages

The Little Fella is much better in himself now, but is still covered in spots. Hasn't stopped him getting up to his usual tricks though :rotfl: