2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

PollyWollyDoodle

I was going to say does the shuttle (as I’d call it) look a bit like a bullet, but space rocket is similar. I have this on my 100-year old Frister & Rossman. It’s tucked away in storage at the moment until I can get my sewing room set up, otherwise I would take a photo.  You fill the bobbin by winding it like any machine, but instead of sitting on a spindle there should be two bits on top of the machine that it clips into, then you disengage the hand wheel (in my case) by a little lever, so that it winds the bobbin rather than raising and lowering the needle. 

@nannygladys?  I could get my machine out tomorrow and take a photo if I can be of any help, I expect Laura’s video link is better though

PollyWollyDoodle

In other news, as I predicted my two black plastic sacks of fabric were snapped up when I listed them free on a local Facebook page. I had a few pangs, until I looked at the amount I still have in storage!  I felt perhaps I should warn the lady who so eagerly collected them that she is probably building a SABLE of her own.   

maddiemay

The 2 Heatech LS vests fit, can someone advise how many points please?
2 pairs of the lovely thick Bamboo socks on order, will add them when they turn up next week.

nannygladys

PollyWollyDoodle - it's exactly like that, and it has the slot where you wind the bobbin, I'll have to have a go at it, but not tomorrow unfortunately, in fact if there are some videos somewhere I may follow them. I learnt to sew on an old Jones sewing machine which was a hand one, but the threading etc was similar to machines of today.

Laura_Elsewhere

@nannygladys, once you know what model it is - is yours a 27K like mine or another model? - then you can get the entire manual free online, and there are specific websites to turn to.

One thing, though - be very careful about buying any new bits or being kindly given any.... there were dozens of makers of these "vibrating shuttle" (!) machines and the bobbins look very very similar but are just ever so slightly different, and if you use the wrong bits it can cause real problems...! 

Hence why knowing the model is the most important bit  

If you do need to buy any parts, this is THE woman to buy from. She knows more about old sewing machines than anyone in the world arguably... also, when I've had to ask her advice, she's just lovely  

 https://www.helenhowes-sewingmachines.co.uk/

TwibbleDee

Laura_Elsewhere said:

The very simplest apron has always worked brilliantly for me - you take a piece of fabric the width and height you want, fold it lengthways, and then cut out the curve to make the top part narrower. Then you sew the wide ends of those tow cut-off pieces together, put a hem along the long straight edge and sew that on as the pocket in the front, with a curved seam all round the side-bottom-side, and a short vertical seam up the centre-front seam, so you have two large shallow pockets. 

Zero-waste cutting  

Googling for a diagram, I find nobody seems to make these - what?! why?? It has to be the simplest sewing-pattern in existence for any item of any kind  

Is that the sort that uses the ties?

Laura_Elsewhere

TwibbleDee said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

The very simplest apron has always worked brilliantly for me - you take a piece of fabric the width and height you want, fold it lengthways, and then cut out the curve to make the top part narrower. Then you sew the wide ends of those tow cut-off pieces together, put a hem along the long straight edge and sew that on as the pocket in the front, with a curved seam all round the side-bottom-side, and a short vertical seam up the centre-front seam, so you have two large shallow pockets. 

Zero-waste cutting  

Googling for a diagram, I find nobody seems to make these - what?! why?? It has to be the simplest sewing-pattern in existence for any item of any kind  

Is that the sort that uses the ties?

Yes... Like this. So it's very like your second pattern link, only instead of square pockets it has the big curved one made from the cut-off bits - easy enough to make square ones of another fabric if you prefer, but folding along its long axis and cutting the curved bit off is definitely the easiest way to make an apron! 





EDIT: aha, I see both yours are the X-backed sort... I've never made one of those. But every one of these I've made, I've made the ties long enough to go round and tie at the front, same as waiters' aprons do. 

skogar

Spend to report - 5 coupons. The navy cardigan fitted. Very pleased.

I think that takes me down to 40 coupons.

Pip - interesting read on the colour assessment you mentioned - I did manage to find an ancient pic from "colour me beautiful" showing suggested colour types. Interesting there were a lot of colours I wear but no black or charcoal mentioned (although it didn't say don't wear them either) so I will dither a bit longer I think on the colour of the 2nd cardigan - perhaps a warm brown or green might be better - it would certainly give more colour options with existing items. 

PipneyJane

skogar said:

Spend to report - 5 coupons. The navy cardigan fitted. Very pleased.

I think that takes me down to 40 coupons.

Pip - interesting read on the colour assessment you mentioned - I did manage to find an ancient pic from "colour me beautiful" showing suggested colour types. Interesting there were a lot of colours I wear but no black or charcoal mentioned (although it didn't say don't wear them either) so I will dither a bit longer I think on the colour of the 2nd cardigan - perhaps a warm brown or green might be better - it would certainly give more colour options with existing items. 

@skogar IIRC Colour-Me-Beautiful had charcoal down as a neutral to be worn by most colour pallets.  I have the book upstairs somewhere.  The people who did my colours weren't CMB-affiliated.  Don't recall who they worked for now.

- Pip

TwibbleDee

Laura_Elsewhere said:

TwibbleDee said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

The very simplest apron has always worked brilliantly for me - you take a piece of fabric the width and height you want, fold it lengthways, and then cut out the curve to make the top part narrower. Then you sew the wide ends of those tow cut-off pieces together, put a hem along the long straight edge and sew that on as the pocket in the front, with a curved seam all round the side-bottom-side, and a short vertical seam up the centre-front seam, so you have two large shallow pockets. 

Zero-waste cutting  

Googling for a diagram, I find nobody seems to make these - what?! why?? It has to be the simplest sewing-pattern in existence for any item of any kind  

Is that the sort that uses the ties?

Yes... Like this. So it's very like your second pattern link, only instead of square pockets it has the big curved one made from the cut-off bits - easy enough to make square ones of another fabric if you prefer, but folding along its long axis and cutting the curved bit off is definitely the easiest way to make an apron! 





EDIT: aha, I see both yours are the X-backed sort... I've never made one of those. But every one of these I've made, I've made the ties long enough to go round and tie at the front, same as waiters' aprons do. 

I’m looking at the x-back ones because halters tend to pull on my neck and shoulders if I use the pockets at all.