Does anyone else make their own clothes

Rikki

I'm starting to think about my winter wardrobe. Anybody found and nice styles for this winter?

Mrs_Flittersnoop

Hi Rikki. I'm slowly sorting out my plans for autumn/winter sewing. I've traced off a couple of Burda patterns from the magazine and only need to alter them before cutting out. I'm trying to use up my (cough) extensive stash a bit. So far I'm planning some wide-ish legged trousers (not very wide since they don't really suit me) , a couple of smartish shirts for work (when I finally find a job!) and I also need a black jacket for choir. I'm using mostly grey and black fabrics with a shot of berry. Well that's the plan.

From the magazines it looks as though various trouser widths are in vogue this year, including very skinny ones (not for me) and the aforementioned wide ('Marlene Dietrich') types. I'm not desperately trendy (too old) but I do like to add a hint of something fashionable.

All I have to do now is throw OH off the dining table where he has spread his laptop and a ton of papers (officially 'working') so I can alter my patterns....

What are you planning?

Mrs F x

abusybee

I have just packed off DS1 back to school :j and DS2 is starting pre-school 5 mornings a week next week :j so I will be getting the sewing machine back out and hopefully have something made soon. I have also just subscribed to Prima magazine for the free patterns and a quick read so hopefull there will be some nice patterns to make some nice clothes. If the weather carries on as it is there will be more time sewing as I wont be going out in the garden in this awful wet weather

nuttywoman

abusybee wrote: »

I have just packed off DS1 back to school :j and DS2 is starting pre-school 5 mornings a week next week :j so I will be getting the sewing machine back out and hopefully have something made soon. I have also just subscribed to Prima magazine for the free patterns and a quick read so hopefull there will be some nice patterns to make some nice clothes. If the weather carries on as it is there will be more time sewing as I wont be going out in the garden in this awful wet weather

Thanks for info about Prima mag, i used to get that mag, but at one point they stopped doing free patterns, glad they started again.
Your in Preston? i`m in Chorley,lol

abusybee

nuttywoman wrote: »

Thanks for info about Prima mag, i used to get that mag, but at one point they stopped doing free patterns, glad they started again.
Your in Preston? i`m in Chorley,lol

They are not free in the magazines in the shops. The robbing sods :mad: get you to pay £2.50 for the mag then pay at least £1.75 for the phone call to order the pattern. in my last magazine there was an offer leaflet to subscribe to magazine for £18 for the year so that is only £1.50 an issue and you get the pattern and it is all delivered to your door so I couldnt miss the oportunity.:D

Yes Im in preston. you've got some fantastic cheap shops in chorley, my mum and I come occasionaly on a shopping trip.

top_drawer_2

nuttywoman wrote: »

Thanks for info about Prima mag, i used to get that mag, but at one point they stopped doing free patterns, glad they started again.
Your in Preston? i`m in Chorley,lol

hiya,

I'm in Preston too!! if anyone is interested in attending classes then Janet Moville runs weekly classes at Roman Way Industrial Park nr Ribbleton in Preston. She also does some sleep over ones and day ones at Alston Hall which is worth a visit for the food alone.

Jen

abusybee

top_drawer wrote: »

hiya,

I'm in Preston too!! if anyone is interested in attending classes then Janet Moville runs weekly classes at Roman Way Industrial Park nr Ribbleton in Preston. She also does some sleep over ones and day ones at Alston Hall which is worth a visit for the food alone.

Jen

How much do they cost?:rolleyes:

top_drawer_2

hi,

The weekly classes are £15 per session, but I can guarentee theyre very good. You can work on projects of your choice (class members have various abilities - me being at the lowest level lol!!) and get help to iron out probs.

This is the website to the school

http://www.sewjanetmoville.co.uk/default.asp?pgid=home

Jen

abusybee

top_drawer wrote: »

hi,

The weekly classes are £15 per session, but I can guarentee theyre very good. You can work on projects of your choice (class members have various abilities - me being at the lowest level lol!!) and get help to iron out probs.

This is the website to the school

http://www.sewjanetmoville.co.uk/default.asp?pgid=home

Jen

Thanks for that I will have a look now:D

TheDoolallyDilly

I used to make a lot of clothes, and do alterations. I also made lots of the curtains in our last house (and the people that bought the house said they really liked them, and could we leave them, which was a nice boost!). I also found it handy for fancy dress costumes for my boys when they were younger. I've also made clothes from those Prima patterns - but not since they started making you phone up to order them!

I'm pretty much self-taught, apart from the lessons we had at school when I was about 12 or 13. The parents of my best friend at that time owned a haberdashery and fabric shop, and I slowly got drawn into making things.

I haven't done it for a while now (apart from a DT project I had to do when I was a college!) but I still have my sewing machine, and over the summer I was thinking about making some skirts - when I was in my late-teens and twenties I used run up a skirt in an afternoon. I never got round to it, but I am planning a trip to John Lewis (our nearest is either Oxford Street or Bluewater) to browse patterns and fabrics.
We don't have anywhere nearer than that, unfortunately.

I was thinking of some lessons, as I definitely need to improve my (pretty much non-existant) skills - I have never made trousers (for me), for example, as I am a bit scared. I could ask my MIL, who is a tailoress, and is absolutely brilliant, for some tips.

I will be watching this thread with interest (and will hopefully be able to join in to say I've made something soon!).

TDD x