Sewing Projects Finally Completed

I’ve finally finished all of my sewing projects, some of which have been sitting around for months.  Hooray!  Today, I finished two blouses for my friend.  It’s so nice to be done with sewing, of course, now I”m thinking about my next projects!!
In the meantime, I’ve been doing lots and lots of knitting.  I’ve got [...]

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Sewing Saturday – Another Blouse

Here’s another blouse that I finished.  I’ve pretty much got the process down, it’s just sitting down to work on them.  After this, I’m in the finish lane with another blouse and then I switch the thread on my sewing machine from black to blue for two more blouses.

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“Sewing Saturday” – Another Lazy Sunday

I finished another blouse today.  That makes 5 done and 3 to go.  I also need to make several pairs of long pants.  I think I have 5 to go.
Here’s a picture of one of the blouses I finished this weekend.

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Completed Tops (3 Done)

Here are some pictures of the three long-sleeved tops I’ve completed.

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Fabric Messiness and Progression

When making several blouses at once, and being quite busy at work, so that you’re extremely lazy in the cleaning department at home, I’ve noticed that I tend to have piles of fabric pieces.  Here are some pictures.  I’m also including an “assembly line” neckline/interfacing photo, as well as a pic of all 8 fabrics.

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Sewing Saturday – More to Sew

I went to JoAnn Fabrics to buy suiting material for four pairs of long dress pants.  After much contemplation and comparison of patterns, I decided to make the long version of the pattern I used for capris.  With the fabric 40% off and also the use of my 15% off-the-entire-order teacher card, it came out [...]

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Winter Wardrobe – Ready to Sew

It took quite a while, but I finally got everything cut out for the eight blouses.  Along the way, I watched bits and pieces of The Sound of Music, Kiss Me Kate (with Brent Barrett), Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice (1995, with Colin Firth), and Wives and Daughters.  I don’t know what I’ll watch today… [...]

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Sewing Saturday – Winter Wardrobe

I’ve begun the monumental task of sewing my winter wardrobe.  I’m using the pattern (Simplicity 3887) that I used for summer blouses, using two versions of long sleeves.  Three shirts will have loose long sleeves and five will have long sleeves gathered with elastic at my wrists.  It took forever to determine the correct length [...]

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Sewing Saturday – Blue Dress

I’ve been doing a lot of sewing since I got my serger this summer.  Here are some pictures of a blue (turquoise) dress that I made.  The pattern is Simplicity 3678, View A.  It turned out well, so I also made it in maroon (pictured) and plum.  I used jersey knit (interlock) fabric from JoAnn [...]

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Summer Days – plenty of time to read and sew

I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.  It took me a few days.  When I needed a break (too much suspense), I would sew.  I now have a lovely new dress and two ankle length skirts.  Fun!  I must say that Breaking Dawn was simply fantastic.  I’ll probably read it again, if I [...]

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A Green Dress With Pretty Sleeves

I made a pretty green dress from Simplicity 3622.  I used jersey knit fabric.  The dress was challenging, partly because the sleeves had 6 elastic casings between them.  Here are some pictures of how it went.

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Sewing Saturday – July 26: Hey, Hey It’s a Serger!

I recently bought a serger.  I’m so glad that I did!  I want to say a special thanks to Amber and Raphaelle, who patiently taught me everything there is to know about sergers, so that I could make an informed decision.  (Click on each picture to see a bigger image.)
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