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hers on instagram is one of the reasons i decided to go with a seamwork subscription i shamelessly copied my inspirations by using the same prequilted knit i bought this navy colorway from stylemaker fabrics and i might have another color coming from minerva and omg is this fabric so comfy cozy and kind of a pain to sew with since it sheds its innards and is a bit thick and slippery what i did not have ready to go were snaps for the closure i have a ton of snapsetter rip snaps that i was thinking would work but i hadn t even looked at them in years and it turns out they are all too small for this jacket and i don t feel confident that the short ish prongs would be a good match with the fabric thickness even if i had a bigger size so my jacket got a bit more expensive since i ended up buying a snap press and dies plus bigger snaps from kamsnaps my order should be here next week and then i ll finish the jacket here s the back which is hanging very crooked on zillie i also have not yet added elastic to the hem i m still deciding on that and will make up my mind once i can actually snap the jacket closed even though this is a very simple and oversized design i had to go my own way a bit with the pockets because they are shaped with a straight side to be inserted into a straight side seam and i blended between sizes which created a very curved side seam it s not a big deal but i kind of think the instructions should have mentioned shown that you ll need to apply the pockets more like a patch pocket if you do blend between sizes seamwork patterns are mostly geared toward beginners and i can imagine a beginner doing some head scratching on this situation on the plus side seamwork s private member forum is very active and filled with extremely helpful people so one could ask there if stuck i cut the pattern pieces to match the pattern of quilting across the front and side seams but somehow one of my pockets does not match up at all i decided to just leave it besides the laziness factor i didn t want to waste any of the remaining fabric since i should have enough left to colorblock for another pattern that s percolating in my brain i figure there s so many lines going every which way and the pockets hang more to the side than how it looks on zillie that no one but me and now the entire internet will ever notice so that s the end of my 2023 sewing i ll be back when i have my snaps on the jacket i m also planning to start a sweatshirt tomorrow so hopefully i ll have that to share soon too happy new year at january 06 2024 10 comments labels coverstitch jackets love notions office wardrobe seamwork tops friday december 1 2023 seamwork meg dress and beatnik wadder yep you read that correctly seamwork i ve been eying the seamwork meg dress for a while there s just something about it that called to me so i decided to test out a seamwork membership because with a 15 day trial membership you get a free pattern download plus access to all the other membership stuff message board member projects tips project sheets videos etc if i decided to cancel i d still be able to keep the pattern at no charge and i wouldn t be charged for the membership your credit card is not charged during the trial period good deal right so i downloaded the pattern to have a look at the drafting sizing and instructions i printed out everything and taped the pattern together it all seemed in order i have some opinions shocker about some of the instructions which i ll share later but overall they re fine and here is my dress still to be hemmed and i love it my measurements put me in a size 20 bodice but this pattern has a lot of ease and after reading through some of the seamwork community message board and seeing some youtube videos on this and other seamwork patterns i think seamwork patterns run large i cut an 18 bodice and blended to a 22 at the waist hip my measurements would put me in a much larger hip size but there s plenty of design ease in this dress so i stayed at the 22 my sizing decisions worked fine i also added length to the bodice instead of cutting the bottom edge at the 18 lines i extended to the 22 kind of a cheater fba seamwork is supposed to draft for a dd in the larger size range but again after my research i thought i would need more bust length i was right the width is fine but again lots of design ease the fabric is rayon voile from fabricmart it was supposed to be challis but it s not i m not lucking out with fabricmart rayons lately but i do love the actual print also i see that i still need to more evenly distribute the elastic in the channels so the waist is looking a bit wonky if only i could distribute my own waist so quickly the tie is organza ribbon from deep stash i m still auditioning it and i may end up making a tie from the leftover fabric of which there is a lot but i do like the bit of contrast so the ribbon may stay these are the bonus sleeves which are puffed and have an elastic channel to create the gathered hem flounce members get free bonus views of patterns that you don t get if you just buy the pattern without a membership i think that s how it works anyway the non bonus sleeves are flutter style line drawing of the bonus view here s the dress in progress to show how low the neckline is before gathering shortens it i also added about 6 inches to the skirt length much of which is now taken up by the waist elastic i haven t done a final hem yet but i m thinking i ll keep most of the extra length side note cyrus decided the pattern tasted good and i found this after walking into the sewing room one day my fault for strewing pattern pieces all over the place it taped together fine but it turns out that the bonus view also comes with its own bodice pieces so i didn t need the chewed piece in the end now on to my opinions about the instructions overall they are fine and will get the job done especially if you have some experience but some of the methods are not necessarily best practices for example almost everywhere you are instructed to finish zz or serge seam allowances separately technically that s fine but it s not necessary to construct the pattern and on my lightweight fabric serging one layer was horrible i quickly ditched that after being sure no seams actually had to be flat if there s no construction need for the seam to be flat open then i think the instructions should offer a choice ironically there is no instruction to finish the seams of the cf bodice and facing which means they end up raw edges which can be fiddly inside the neckline channel if your ribbon insertion doesn t go smoothly the facing should be interfaced and it s not this would eliminate one of those raw edges in addition to just giving the facing a bit more something something iykwim another bad practice is you are instructed to sew the bodice sideseams before attaching the facing and doing the topstitching to it much much easier to do all that in the flat and then sew the sideseams lastly the pattern uses 5 8 seam allowances everywhere i know this is technically ok and standard for big 4 but i personally hate a 5 8 seam allowance on a sleevecap since this one is gathered it wasn t a big deal but if it wasn t i would have trimmed it down out and out mistakes include some typos a missing instruction to remove basting stitches from outside a seam allowance the puffed sleevecap and no instruction to understitch the facing join seam these are things a sewist with experience would just do so they didn t slow me down but a beginner would have no idea so did i cancel my trial membership actually i did not i m enjoying the behind the scenes features and other members and there are a number of other patterns i want to download try plus i might actually go through their design your wardrobe class at my own pace since my closet needs a huge overall i think i m actually seeing marked improvement from seamwork patterns and practices since their early days and i m willing to give them another chance we ll see how i feel next year at renewal time now for the wadder hotpatterns beatnik ugh this fabric french terry is so nice that i hate to waste it so i ll probably just literally wad this up and put it in a pile for a while until i can repurpose it but the actual garment is a big no it just looks horrible on me it s just too much fabric in the wrong places and not enough where it s needed and the neckline sits funny on me i ve wanted to try this pattern for a while and i m glad i did finally get to it it s now out of my system i ll be trying a cashmerette stanton next i think the topstitching looks so wonky in these pics that s about the only thing that actually turned out ok but it doesn t look like it hah parting shot if you ve made it this far here s alex prepping the bird for our thanksgiving last week he s an excellent cook haha get it seriously though he s done the turkey for a couple of years and it s always been so good that s one of his 3 dogs oreo standing behind him anytime anyone is in the kitchen so is oreo it was a low key but enjoyable day with my sons and all the dogs i finished up the last of the leftovers last night i m ready for more turkey at december 01 2023 11 comments labels cashmerette dresses family hotpatterns indie patterns office wardrobe seamwork wadders wednesday november 15 2023 finished fringes on me not my best photography is there such a thing for me but also not on zillie so there s that here are my finished chalk notch fringe dresses on me in mirror shots that harsh overhead lighting and shadows for the fringe 2 pics are doing me no favors but whatever i ve now grown too old to care much hah i wish this fabric would hold up but it s just not going to i suspect i ll be retiring it after a few more trips through the laundry cycle i ll reclaim those buttons when it goes this fabric is so much nicer but it definitely feels a little heavier to wear both dresses are extremely comfortable since they are loose fit and flowy perfect for the very warm days we re still having what happened to that cold spell that was predicted this should be the last you ll see of the fringe dress for a while but it s a keeper and an easy sew so it might pop up again after the navy dotty version dies cyrus as usual is pretty much velcro d to me and you can almost see him behind me he s such a cuddle i m just about finished with the hp beatnik top but i m not loving it on me it s very boxy i ll finish it and it will be a house sweatshirt which is needed because my made for florida house gets pretty cold on cold days when we have them and we do always have them at november 15 2023 7 comments labels dresses indie patterns office wardrobe older posts home subscribe to posts atom sewover50 sewover50 blog blog archive 2024 3 february 1 just in time for warm weather cashmerette stanton january 2 2023 19 december 1 november 2 october 2 september 5 august 5 july 4 2021 3 april 1 march 2 2019 4 august 2 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