It's November! What’s up?

[nou]

Hello sewists! What’s up? Have you finished anything recently? Started anything new? Learned a new technique or read a new sewing-related book?

I finally got all the stupid crinkle linen cut out and have started assembling it. I’m using french seams because it’s very inclined to fraying, but I’m doing them a bit differently from usual. I stay-stitched all the edges on the individual pieces at (not inside) the seam allowance with soluble basting thread, then sewed the narrow part of the french seam at the width I wanted it to be, rather than sewing it wider and then trimming. The stay-stitching meant that (a) sewing an extra-narrow seam to start was easier than it would have been otherwise, and (b) I could see exactly where to sew on the second pass.

Still to do: bias binding on the bottom hem, elastic casing for the sleeve hem (I want to be able to push the sleeves up and have them stay where I put them).

I also made myself another silk pillowcase, since only having one was annoying (you’re not supposed to dry silk in direct sunlight, so getting it washed and dried in between getting up and going to bed could sometimes be challenging).

Comments

[zenigotchas]

LMAO! I mean pants in the American way, I want to add some cuffs to these pants I adore since they're a bit short for meh legs lol. I do appreciate the encouragement!

But now you've got me curious about what kind of stuff you've made with underwear! Lol

[nou]

Cuffs sounds like a great idea. Maybe decorative ones in a fancy fabric?

I make my underwear (trunks aka boxer briefs) from jersey fabric (often this itself comes from old t-shirts), and they mostly don’t wear out in the outside leg part, so I turned those parts into a floor-cleaning cloth by folding them over into a quadruple-thickness square, sewing around the edges (leaving a small gap to turn it), turning it all inside out through the gap, hand-sewing the gap closed, and then quilting across the square. It was inspired by zokin. I feel it’s not unhygienic, because (a) it’s for cleaning the floor and (b) the outsides of the legs were never in contact with anything unhygienic anyway.