Pinafore
I ordered some, um, kits from Clothkits in their January sale – cutting and paper patterns is the bit of learning to sew I am most intimidated by, so I thought these would let me practise sewing a bit before I had to do any of that. And here is Jenny in a pretty green pinny; I had to make buttonholes and most exciting of all figured out how to sew on a button using my machine. Given that my usual approach to an off button is to ignore the garment for several months before sliding it into a charity bag, this could change my life!
One mystery remains, which doesn’t appear to be solved in any of my newly bought books: I asked Earthenwitch, who muttered something about folding it tightly or chopping a bit off. (I am considering demoting her from sewing guru, to be honest.) You know when you need to make a hem on a flarey thing, like the skirt of this here pinafore? So the foldy up hemmy bit is wider than the skirty bit to which it is destined to be attached? What does one do with the excess material? The underside of this dress must never be looked at by anybody who knows, because I just sort of made some creasey tucky bits and sewed over them hard.
The back of it is here.
March 3rd, 2011 19:40
Arses. I knew it was too good to last.
That said, my guru status was always highly dubious, frankly, given that I am only about two paragraphs further on in the textbook than you are, just with less ability to follow directions and a pathological dislike of patterns.
Dress looks lovely, whatsit hem or no.
March 3rd, 2011 22:39
Yeah, that’s what I’d have done, too! 🙂
I adore Clothkits, we were clad in it as children and I’ve since sought out a lot of vintage kits on ebay. It got too expensive though! Must dig out that needlecord skirt kit I bought at AllyPally two years back…
March 9th, 2011 20:32
hmm sewing lets see if i’ m fit to help you with this one too.
The idea is not to have such a deep hem which gives you problems if you restrict the hem to only 1″ there will be not pleats to be made.Ok hope you can understand this
Chrissie
do let me know if you require any other designer aid
May 28th, 2011 17:05
I take my hat off to you!
I cant even sew a button on.
Huge mummy fail!
J