Let’s have another check-in

[nou]

Our lovely admin invited us to make check-in posts at various points, so...

What’s everyone been sewing recently? I mended a sheet (I’ll put a photo in a comment), made a sleep mask from my leftover silk (details will also come in a comment), and started cutting out what I really hope is the final muslin for my latest round of trouser-improvements.

Comments

[nou]

Here’s a photo of the patch on the sheet I mended (click to embiggen):



The patch is made from fabric reclaimed from a pair of trousers that finally fell apart too much to be mended again. When the trousers reached the end of their life, I cut out and discarded the parts that were badly worn (mainly between the legs and around the waistband and hems), and saved the other parts. This sheet is nice and soft from age, so I wanted to use similarly-soft fabric for the patch, which is why I chose this rather than using a scrap from something new.

I also mentioned making a sleep mask from my leftover silk. The silk was bought to make a pillowcase, which involved two rectangles of almost exactly the same size (a 2cm difference due to the zip-covering flap) so the remainder was a long, narrow L-shape. I cut and pieced it to make a rectangle, then folded that in half and sewed around the edges to make a double-thickness rectangle. I don’t like elastic on my sleep masks, so that was all that needed doing (I roll up the rectangle and arrange it over my eyes, and it generally stays put enough). The nice thing about this was that it meant the wastage on this project was extremely minimal (a 2cm strip of fabric that is now in my scraps box).

[ewt]

Finished fixing my waterproof, and sewed a button back onto my blue corduroy blazer.

[watersword]

I;m working on taking apart some trousers that no longer fit me or have stains and deciding what to do with the fabric. Suggestions welcome!

[yhlee]

Beyond being buried in work + RSI lolsob, mostly I have been in Waiting For Fabric And Notions To Arrive from Mail Order Hell. XD

I hand-sew mended, very jankily, a leg that FELL OFF my poor kitsune plushie, but in fairness, while the pattern/design of the plushie is quite sound (I used to make small plushies), the hand-stitching is legitimately terrible and my stitches are (a) buried in long plushie fur (b) much more SECURE.

(My mother compulsively cricitized seam construction in every terribad Sears garment she ever bought, haha.)

[fred_mouse]

Minimal sewing this week, but at least I did some. I hemmed a couple of pairs of trousers for partner, and fixed a crotch seam on one of said pairs of trousers.

I've also pulled out a tablecloth that needs fixing -- has a couple of significant holes in it from kids crafting without supervision, and the 'temporary' repairs have now failed. I'm dithering between putting a patch on, and taking out a section (roughly 15cm) and if so what kind of seam I want to do.