navy is the new black (sez I)
Hi, I'm still here, though I haven't been around much the last week or so. If I missed commenting on your post and I should have, I was cleaning, hosting a guest, grading papers, and experiencing a sudden resurgence of the sewing virus.
As for that, my next project is to work my way through the pile of jeans, trousers, and skirts that need elastic inserted in the waistband. Which is the easy way to get rid of that gap I nearly always have at the back waist of clothing. (I can post more about that, if anyone is curious. It's not complicated at all.)
Anyway, here are a couple of sewing links: a lot of free clothing patterns. These are from Lekala, a Russian pattern company. They offer a service where they'll tailor a pattern to your measurements, but you can try out a few the non-adjusted patterns for free.
25 awesome DIY blogs for the refashionista. While I do plan to sew some garments from scratch this year, my main sewing activity is modifying and altering existing clothing. I'm usually fairly conservative: my trousers remain trousers, or maaaaaaybe shorts. But there are people out there doing amazing things with clothes, like making a long tartan skirt into a cute short dress, two pairs of trousers and a skirt into an entirely different skirt, or this fantastic peplum dress made from a man's shirt.
Other topic! Typefaces that are more user-friendly for people with dyslexia.
And lastly, Texts from Jane Eyre, which made me laugh and laugh. Of COURSE Rochester texts in all-caps.
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As for that, my next project is to work my way through the pile of jeans, trousers, and skirts that need elastic inserted in the waistband. Which is the easy way to get rid of that gap I nearly always have at the back waist of clothing. (I can post more about that, if anyone is curious. It's not complicated at all.)
Anyway, here are a couple of sewing links: a lot of free clothing patterns. These are from Lekala, a Russian pattern company. They offer a service where they'll tailor a pattern to your measurements, but you can try out a few the non-adjusted patterns for free.
25 awesome DIY blogs for the refashionista. While I do plan to sew some garments from scratch this year, my main sewing activity is modifying and altering existing clothing. I'm usually fairly conservative: my trousers remain trousers, or maaaaaaybe shorts. But there are people out there doing amazing things with clothes, like making a long tartan skirt into a cute short dress, two pairs of trousers and a skirt into an entirely different skirt, or this fantastic peplum dress made from a man's shirt.
Other topic! Typefaces that are more user-friendly for people with dyslexia.
And lastly, Texts from Jane Eyre, which made me laugh and laugh. Of COURSE Rochester texts in all-caps.
Posted at Dreamwidth: http://rose-griffes.dreamwidth.org/278506.html. Comment where you wish.