The Sewing Room

Prudent

This is my stash from hobbycraft voucher

Prudent

Ooopps! I am sorry the photo is so big. This is the first time we have tried to upload a photo to the site

Savvy_sewing

Prudent wrote: »

Ooopps! I am sorry the photo is so big. This is the first time we have tried to upload a photo to the site

Dont worry. its all lovely stuff. I love the sewing boxes.
My stuff is in all sorts of boxes and bags, and loose, and I really need to get organised better now that I have my sewing room,. I think I need storage going up the way on the walls. Seen some lovely pieces on here, that inspire me.
Happy sewing. I have to have lunch and go to the post office with my ebay sales.
Making stock is on the agenda asap for the etsy and maybe a folksy site. But I keep doing other things! Knitting a scarf I reclaimed the wool from one that was torn, and am making one for DGD with the wool I salvedged.! Time consuming undoing the old one though!

hmo

Prudent wrote: »

This is my stash from hobbycraft voucher

great buys well done.

hmo

we should get the Janome for my dd today hope its ok.

so once we have it up and running she is going to have a practice just sewing the stitches to see how they work and look.

she has her first project ready i enlarged the monster pattern that was in last months sew hip mag.

she has cut the pattern out and i cut the fabric for her as we needed double layers and some of the pattern pieces are small.

all she has to do now is sew it together:)

she is going to make felt bunting for her friend Jade as her 2nd project.

i will post photos when done

Prudent

Its raining sewing prizes! I got a large envelope in the post today and thought it was brochures, so I nearly binned it! Inside was four pieces of A4 felt. One in green, one in magenta, one in a mid brown and one in white. There was a letter saying they were a prize from 'mycraftstore.com'. I am not sure what I will do with it yet. I did pick up some leaflets about making felt toys in hobbycraft yesterday. Does any one have any suggestions?

Prudent

Please can someone give me some advice?

We are trying to make tote bags from the fabric in the photos above. The bags are being made from instructions in a recent edition of a patchwork magazine. There isn't a pattern, but it asks for the fabrics to be cut into different sizes of pieces. The lines of the cutting board could be seen through the pink spotty fabric. We can't see the lines of the board through the green and pink floral fabric. How do we cut it to the right size?

For now we have cut out some grease prove paper in the right sizes to make a kind of pattern.

Sorry for the silly question, this is all new to us!

hmo

Prudent, i am not sure i fully understand what you are trying to do, howvere i would have said make a paper pattern.

alternatiely could you take the measurement from the instructions and just draw them onto your fabric with a fabric pen, those that dissappear after a while

MissPixie

I always draw up patterns on printer paper taped together and then pin it to the fabric if I am cutting with scissors or put it on top below the ruler if I am using the rotary cutter it makes is much easier than just trying to guess that you have the lines right. I just use the lines on the mat as a rough guide to see how straight things are.

Finished decorating the two rooms just waiting for the last one to dry so I can move everything back and then I can get on with some sewing before I have to go away and leave my machine for a whole week

I have decided it was too ambitious to do 2 quilts for my bridesmaids on top of my 4 page to do list but I am going to start one that will no doubt end up as a gift for someone. Although I am tempted to make it red themed so I can keep it and have it in our bedroom

Prudent

Thank you both We did make a paper pattern in the end and grease proof paper seemed to do fine. Are fabric pens a similar idea to taylor's chalk, as I have some of that. The bag is now roughly pinned together to give us an idea of what it will look like.