Tailor made

 I am an a waistcoat making roll this year! Must take some photos of the rest, but I am currently tackling a Burda pattern I found at an op shop recently. I would guess it was an inclusion with a sewing magazine, as it is only in a paper front in a plastic bag, with minimal illustrations. Or maybe that’s just Burda.

 I don’t think I have used a Burda pattern before ( other than tracing some from the Burda magazines at the library years ago). I did remember that seam allowances are NOT included. I find that a very odd “point  of difference” to leave something so important out! 

Some issues so far - the interfacing I used was too thick, I will have to do the top stitching on the 201k because of all the layers with the facing, front and collar to sew through.

I tacked it together with the 66k - love the look of the pink basting stitches against the brown pinstripe! I tried it on but found I had to alter the shape a lot for a good fit. I then tried to recut the pattern to match, but I think I forgot to factor in taking in the back panel to match the front. 

A work in progress! 

Hello poor neglected blog…

 Oh my gosh it has been a while,  I seem to have fallen off the blog wagon big time!

I have been sewing, just not taking many photos of  my creations! 

 I found some lovely pre cut strips at a Salvos store a few weeks ago, I knew it would come in handy for a project. I sewed some up this week -into  a couple of pouches for a heat pack. One of my dearest friends his recovering from surgery, and asked if I could make her a pouch for a heat pack. I was happy to oblige and knew I had the perfect fabric - her favourite colour is orange!

 Another project - last week - was finally making a tailor’s pressing ham. I don’t know where I put the blue moleskin fabric I had set aside for this, so instead used this wool blend piece - another op shop find. Filled with sawdust, it could have been stuffed even firmer but I just could not be bothered sitting there spooning in any more sawdust, spoonful by spoonful!

 I did have The Dog for company - he came & sat right next to me on the floor while I was stuffing the sawdust in. It took me a while to figure out it was not just because of my company, but because he loves  the smell of sawdust - from spending lots of weekend time in the shed with my H! 

I had to make the tailor’s ham because I need to use it to press a waistcoat I am part way through making. It has curved seams - I have to re draft the pattern because it is not a good fit yet, currently it is just basted together, so easy to baste using a long stitch on my hand cranked Singer! One I fix the pattern & re sew the seams I will be able to press the curves properly on my new tailor’s ham.