An October check-in

[nou]

Hello sewists! What have you all been up to recently?

I’ve been very very slowly cutting out and doing the darts in a top for myself from the oil-green crinkle linen I mentioned in our last check-in. It is such a monumental pain to mark — it doesn’t like to take the chalk at all — but my top pattern has eight darts in total and I like to mark them all. Sleeves and front are cut and darted, just need to cut the back and then sew it all together.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Every now and then I have a task that justifies the ridiculous amount of scrap fabric I keep. I'm so glad to have had this to hand, and just been able to make what was needed, with no stress on the acquisition or any of that. And yet, I have too much fabric. *sigh*

Variegated thread for the quilting sounds fabulous! I'm a very lazy quilter - I just use the same (poly)cotton thread I use for everything else.

[nou]

The variegated thread is really a topstitching thread (Gutermann Deco Stitch), but I had some on hand that I’d used in a shirt for bob, so after failing to work out what colour to use to quilt a multi-coloured thing, I tried the Deco Stitch and it looked great.

[fred_mouse]

I will have to keep that in mind. I think the next quilt will be quilted in purple, all going according to plan (and me being able to remember where the purple cotton is).