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trial balloons march 2019 trial balloons a trial balloon is a test to see if an idea is going to fly here you will find my sewing room trial balloons i will let you decide if they serve as inspiration or cautionary tales welcome 3 26 2019 the hills are alive i can t figure it out every year when this starts to happen in my garden i end up making some unexplainable springtime confection that usually involves too many colors as one of my sewing buds pointed out maybe some gathering and often a bow or two yikes maybe i still haven t gotten over the annual easter sunday dress shopping excursion complete with matching shoes hat and gloves whatever it is it happened again last saturday i spent the whole day blissfully patterning and puttering away and sure enough the too cute for its own good creation appeared on my dress form this year the devilish delight took the form of an apron dress as pointed out by said sewing bud it isn t as colorful as previous spring frocks i think i will call that progress i have been rather fascinated for the last little while with working garments the patterns that i have been studying from merchant and mills are the prime example they take their cues from factory uniforms or denim basics and i love the usefulness and simple elegance of the garments i have been saving apron and pinafore pictures on a pinterest board for a while now and decided the time was right i also had a length of soft rumpled linen drapery fabric think sound of music children on an alp that has been looking for a project recently linen has been popular again for upholstery and draperies yay for the linen loving sewists i have been finding really nice linens and linen cotton blends lurking in the home dec departments i am always careful to check and make sure that the contents of the fabrics are actually linen and or cotton and not an unpronounceable combination of chemicals i usually wash them several times to soften them up and get that nice rumpled affect that i associate with comfortable linen clothes this particular piece was on a remnant table so i am not totally convinced that it is 100 linen but after a few rounds in the washer and dryer it was very soft and acceptable as i started the project it became clear that the pockets were taking the lead when i figured this out i realized that the fact that i was working with a minimum of pattern repeats would not be a problem sticking pockets everywhere was going to cover up any attempt at pattern matching anyway so i just cut right in throwing matching to the wind here s the finished too cute for its own good apron i did find a greenish t shirt that looks ok but maybe a bit too matchy matchy i kind of like the ivory top with it all the pockets were applied to the outside as patch type pockets and i had fun figuring out the back strap connection i wanted it to be adjustable i guess there are a couple of bow ish details welcome spring i am ready to go as soon as i learn how to yodel do re mi posted by becky at 2 08 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels apron decorator linen design garment construction linen merchant and mills sewing top stitching 3 10 2019 waiting for spring tweedy shirt update if you have seen rhonda s latest blog post you now understand why we needed to postpone our sew together plan when she told me that she had fallen twice and broken things important things like wrists i told her to concentrate on healing we can sew and share when she is ready stay tuned best wishes for a speedy recovery back in my sewing room i have been loving my cozy sweatshirt it has been cold and dreary here and things to cuddle up in have been my favorite way to combat the end of winter weather and making another version was the perfect antidote for dreary cabin fever this time i chose a lovely cotton matelasse that i found in the upholstery department the original plan was to make a little skirt i had been seeing short wool or quilted skirts worn over leggings that i thought would be a cute and warmer alternative to yoga pants i know it is ok to wear yoga pants as real clothes i just haven t gotten there yet i pulled out the fabric and decided it was a bit light in color for the skirt plan but would feel wonderful as a sweatshirt as i do with most of the upholstery fabrics that turn into garments i washed the heck out of it upholstery fabrics often have more sizing than other fabrics which means they can change significantly in the wash i always want to know what s going to happen before i spend the time making them into garments i ll run some fabrics through the wash several times to get to a texture that i like and sometimes one washing sends them to the scarp pile because this was 100 cotton the only thing that happened was that it got softer ahhhhhh matelasse is basically two fabrics that are held together by the quilted design matelassé french matlase is a weaving or stitching technique yielding a pattern that appears quilted or padded matelassé may be achieved by hand on a jacquard loom or a quilting machine it is meant to mimic the style of hand stitched quilts made in marseilles france because of it s structure when it is cut the areas that are not held together by the quilting pattern tend to fray easily upholstery fabrics also fray when cut so as soon as possible after cutting my pattern pieces i ran the cut edges through my serger i cut off 1 8 of an inch with the serger and adjusted my seam allowances appropriately i also got a new foot for my sewing machine that was the perfect thing for this project i like using my walking foot most of the time and when i picked up my sewing machines from the dealer in february i noticed that i could get an edge foot for my walking foot oh yeah i m in love i know way too sewing geeky i pressed open the seam allowances and used my new fancy foot to top stitch on either side of the seam it added a bit of detail to an otherwise pretty plain shirt if you are a keen observer you will notice that on my serged pieces there are no center front or back seams but on the final shirt there are seams pictures of the finished shirt ahead the center back and front were both cut on the fold now you might think that some one who has been sewing for herself for as long as i have and has made as many boxy sweatshirt shapes as i have might know what size to cut and you might be wrong i guess i thought that the heavier fabric would need more room i don t know when i got the shoulder seams sewn it was pretty obvious that this shirt was meant for a much bigger body and that just taking wider side seams was not going to be enough i took a full 3 inches out of the center front and another 2 inches out of the center back once i made the adjustments which required a new seam at both centers i really liked both the fit and the new design lines bonus the hem is higher in the front and drops down in the back i ended up running a loose elastic through the hem to bring it in a bit the heavy fabric made it a bit sticky outy that s a technical term i feel like i am channeling audrey hepburn in a skiing movie might need to get me some schmancy sun glasses and wine note i was asked about the pattern for this top i started with a really old vogue tunic pattern because it had a really dropped shoulder line from there i adapted the shape that i wanted you could start with any generously cut top pattern a funnel neckline is fairly easy to draft i wanted to have it cut on rather than a separate collar piece i decided rather arbitrarily that it should stand up about 2 from the shoulder neck point because the fabric had no stretch the opening at the neck would need to accommodate my head i took my head circumference 22 divided in half for the front and back and added 1 2 seam allowances that gave me the measurement 12 for the top neck openings finally i used my french curve to gracefully connect the top of the neck to the shoulder i 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