September sewing summary

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Hi sewists! What have you been sewing? What are you planning to sew soon? Are you stuck on anything? Anything to show off? Any cool new techniques learned or tools acquired?

I have finally finished sewing test sleeves, and so my next project will be making myself a long-sleeved top in oil-green crinkle linen. It’s autumn here now, so hopefully this will be a nice thing to wear in the cooler weather.

Also in progress is a removable curtain for my gazebo, to increase the footprint of its shade. The gazebo came with a strip of the fuzzy side of velcro all around the top of it, so I just had to put some fabric together and add bits of the hook side. I’m using scrap fabric for this, and it’s turned out to have a nice sort-of “stained glass” effect, like in the Korean quilting technique that yhlee and I were discussing in January.

Photo below (click to embiggen) — the bottom edge is untrimmed and unhemmed because I’m going to make it longer. But it’s already usable.

And I made a dishcloth from the non-shredded bits of some dead trousers:

And finally I made the other side of the cushion cover I previously posted about: