I’ve been saving my pennies for ages, and last week my copy of the Cochenille Garment Designer software arrived. I haven’t said too much about it yet because I’m still on the steep part of the learning curve. This means that anything I might have wanted to say was probably unprintable anyway. The first pattern [...]
Tag Archive 'pattern drafting'
This is a little underbust corset which matches the silk waistcoat. It’s made to a pattern that I drafted a couple of years ago. The only alteration I made to the original was that I boned the modesty panel with plastic rather than metal. This makes it much lighter to wear, and as the metal [...]
This is just a little sneaky peek at something I’m working on at the moment. It’s a costume for Aldbrickham Clog & Step Dancers. I play recorder and concertina for them, and I’m helping out a friend who needs a new blouse. We wear roughly Edwardian costumes, based on the working clothes worn in the countryside until [...]
I was chatting to a friend who reads my blog posts when they pop up on Facebook, and he wanted to know why I’d been making such a lot of underwear recently. There are two reasons, really. When my latest work contract came to an end, I thought that making simple little knickers would be [...]
I made these over the weekend, despite the best efforts of my sewing machine and overlocker. I don’t know why both of my machines are still playing up, but it’s driving me mad. The top thread keeps snapping on the overlocker every time I come to sew across a seam, and my ordinary machine has [...]
Today I have been mostly trying to remember my technical drawing lessons, and drafting a pattern for french knickers. This pair are made from spotty jersey (t-shirt weight), with frilly legs and an elasticated waist. They’re quite high-waisted, they should come up to your bellybutton, pretty much. They’re designed to be a close fit to [...]
This is Burda 7808. (Information now only available in German, since the English site has merged with Burda Style and all the patterns are gone. *sigh*) I bought the pattern yesterday because the weather’s gone mad, and I’m going to need some kind of loose summer dress so that I don’t inadvertently boil inside my own [...]
I spent yesterday afternoon developing the prototypes I made on Saturday – in fabrics that I’ll actually wear. The top is a pink tartan cotton and viscose blend shirting. I added sleeves, although they didn’t turn out quite how I meant them to. I was intending to make floaty butterfly sleeves, but these have come [...]
This week’s been a pretty hot one, as far as weather goes in the UK. I’m sure most people are thrilled to bits (in fact I can hear them all outside, laughing and enjoying their barbecues in their gardens), but unfortunately for me, I’m really not very good at hot. I get sunstroke very easily, [...]
Knitting neckline.
Posted in sewing on Mar 27th, 2009
Work has been progressing at a snail’s page around here this week. I’ve finally put together a new bodice, but I think this neckline’s going to be too low. I like the shape of it, and I think it showcases the necklace beautifully, but I think it needs to come up just a little bit. [...]