Sunday, October 28, 2007

Peach (in more ways than one) cotton shirt and skirt

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I decided that I will make a shirt next, because I can use another plain shirt (as opposed to yet another one made from a print). I have se...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Green wool suit finished

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I really had very little left to do, in order to finish the jacket in the green wool. Here is the lining, being stitched in by hand. Here...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

The jacket continued

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Today, I added some notes to my pix at Flickr, so if you want to see detail and have it pointed out, click on the pix and then you can see m...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Green suit continues

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I have attached sleeves to both the jacket and the lining. I have added the collars too and am about to sew the lining to the jacket - big ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2007

The green suit continued

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Forging ahead with the green suit, now that I have incentive to sew with the cheap raw silk. I have sewn together all the body pieces of bot...
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More fabric - imagine that

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Okay, call me crazy. Yesterday, I wanted to get my hair cut which meant biking over to Merivale Road. Since I was already all the way ove...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Continuing with the green suit

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It took quite a while to get ALL the pieces cut out, as there was lining and interfacing too. Then I had to iron on the interfacing and fin...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Green Wool Suit

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I finally put away some patterns I had scattered all over my sewing room and found the jacket and skirt patterns I want to use for the green...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Back to posting!

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It has been far too long but I am finally blogging again. No real reason - just distraction. Back on August 3, I was making a black jacket ...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Handlebar bag finished

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And we're ready to rock and roll. I got a length of soft braid (they had shinier stuff but mine seems to be made of something cottony) ...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

bike bag redesign

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Well I am cleverer than I look because the bike bag worked with the measurements I gave it! It only connected with my knees when I was peda...
Friday, August 03, 2007

Bike bag template finished

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Wow, that bike bag is HUGE. First, I got all balled up at the corners because I was fitting half moon pieces into straight pieces. Not my ...
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Brief bike interlude

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So there I was, sewing away on the black 3/4 sleeve unlined jacket and thinking that black is sure hard to photograph, when it occurred to m...