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It's remained -14 today, though it was supposed to start warming up soon, so it will likely be cold tomorrow when I have to go back to work. It's been awful the past week, and strongly reinforced my desire (mentioned in a previous post) to make some wool fabrics from my late MIL's stash into long skirts, which I think will be warmer and more comfortable to wear to work when it's below freezing. On the other hand, it made me much slower to get started because I kept running back to the duvet, so I didn't get started with it until Friday.
Most of making this first wool skirt (the first time I've sewn with wool fabric and the first time I've made a full gathered skirt, though I have sewn plenty of other stuff, albeit mostly a long time ago) went pretty well.
The main thing is just that I ended up sewing a lot more by hand than I anticipated or intended: chronologically,
1. Hand-felling the two side seams ( Read more... )
2. Sewing the skirt into the waistband ( Read more... )
3. Hand-felling the bottom hem, which, to be fair, I did intend to do from the beginning. ( Read more... )
And finally, 4. Finishing all the raw pocket edges. This was just trying a method that actually is legit, but I messed it up the first time. ( Read more... )
I could do this whole project so much better if I could start over from the beginning, even though I'm quite pleased with the result as is.
And this project was almost zero waste! There ended up being only about three or four square inches of the fabric leftover. However, I definitely look forward to doing everything more efficiently, neatly, and sewing-machine-aidedly in future. Although if I try to make any more wool skirts there will probably still be some hand finishing. I'm not sure if I'm really going to make up the second piece of fabric, though, because I don't love it and there's SO much of it - I think enough for a whole suit for somebody? - that it seems a shame to take a chunk out of it for an uninspired skirt. I'm not sure how best to pass it on to a good home, though, so I guess we'll see.
Most of making this first wool skirt (the first time I've sewn with wool fabric and the first time I've made a full gathered skirt, though I have sewn plenty of other stuff, albeit mostly a long time ago) went pretty well.
The main thing is just that I ended up sewing a lot more by hand than I anticipated or intended: chronologically,
1. Hand-felling the two side seams ( Read more... )
2. Sewing the skirt into the waistband ( Read more... )
3. Hand-felling the bottom hem, which, to be fair, I did intend to do from the beginning. ( Read more... )
And finally, 4. Finishing all the raw pocket edges. This was just trying a method that actually is legit, but I messed it up the first time. ( Read more... )
I could do this whole project so much better if I could start over from the beginning, even though I'm quite pleased with the result as is.
And this project was almost zero waste! There ended up being only about three or four square inches of the fabric leftover. However, I definitely look forward to doing everything more efficiently, neatly, and sewing-machine-aidedly in future. Although if I try to make any more wool skirts there will probably still be some hand finishing. I'm not sure if I'm really going to make up the second piece of fabric, though, because I don't love it and there's SO much of it - I think enough for a whole suit for somebody? - that it seems a shame to take a chunk out of it for an uninspired skirt. I'm not sure how best to pass it on to a good home, though, so I guess we'll see.
