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| katie-ell |
Posted - Aug 15 2006 : 4:28:00 PM
OK, so I've decided that I want to sew up some pretty summer skirts for the last few weeks of summer. The kind you can wear with a colorful tee shirt and some sandals and go to the market or the library or wherever. Went to the Simplicity website to scout out patterns, intending to purchase at our fabric store when they have all patterns for 99 cents.
Am I being too picky? I can't seem to find a good pattern. And when did patterns become multi-size in one envelope?? (I'll admit, I haven't sewn anything from a pattern in years.) What's with that??
Help! I need some encouragement -- I can feel myself turning to stone on this project already. Anyone have a fav skirt pattern to recommend? |
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| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 09:21:39 AM
Selling antique laces that are framed teaching people how to make lace and repairing vintage lace, doing consinment work where people tell me what to make.
In time I want to buy an old victorian in Provo ( that is a little ways off. But we plane to buy some sort of old victorian make the top floor a class room middle two floors a textile museum and the bottom floor a boutique for selling local artisans work.
For now it is what ever I can do. I am trying to get a deal with a company that is building a 20 mil dollar building to hang work on the walls. I want to sell about 10 - 20 works or more if possible to them at about 2-3 thousand a piece not sure if this will happen just pie in the sky dreams at the moment.
update
I went back and posted a picture of a pillow case skirt on the previous page that I made.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
my web store www.sunshines.etsy.com my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/ my google page http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 09:14:05 AM
Sunshine,
What do you have in mind for your at home business?
NANCY JO |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 08:40:18 AM
So what were you wondering. Did you have other questions. Be very happy to answer them for you if I can. Some of her pictures where a little fuzzy on the blow up that is because she doesn't know to hold her breath right before a photo. But they will serve their purpose well enough.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
my web store www.sunshines.etsy.com my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/ my google page http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 08:32:59 AM
Sunshine, your answers explain a lot I've been wondering, too. Your eight year old takes better pictures than I do.
Blessings,
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 08:25:45 AM
My family is so use to me doing hand work it doesn't bother them. I carry something everywhere I go. I go to a family get together I take hand work we have a long drive,doctor visit, I always keep 1 bag of something small in my purse to do incase I get stuck somewhere with nothing to do. That is why I normally have hand made lace to trade with people because that is typically what I carry with me once I memorize the pattern. If the pattern is to hard to memmorize I photocopy it and laminate it and cary that with my project. Sewing travels well too. The very first item on my blog the mini quit you can see it here too was a project I did this way.
I hope you have fun with a little more time. I am starting to get a little more time currently I am trying to start a business from home. This is so I can still be with my kids and bring more income into our home.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
my web store www.sunshines.etsy.com my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/ my google page http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| suzyhomemaker |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 07:59:38 AM
Thank you, Sunshine! I get it now. These are like the ones the waitresses wore at a restaurant we went to in Florida. I see what you mean about rayon draping so nicely. I am going to get myself a couple yards of a rayon and make myself one. I wish I had checked before heading out to Scranton yesterday. Now I have to wait for next trip to that area as I live rural and we have no fabric source around here other than cottons and a few choices at Walmart. Thank you for your posts and pictures. It made all the difference. I am not able to "see" with just words at times. :-)
i liked your blog. I tried to get on the other day, and it would not let me. Today it worked out fine. Thank you. I feel reinspired to be more creative with my needle and sewing machine. I happen to enjoy sewing, quilting and hand embroidery. My daughter spins and knits (I only knit scarves, really simple.) I feel like I can connect with you. My daughter heads off to high school. She has been homeschooled until now, and I am looking forward to more time to create again. I still have my son home and he starts homeschooling this year as he is almost 6. How do you fit sewing in with your family life?
Country girl in NE PA |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 06:45:13 AM
to Katie-ell I did the same thing. Must mean we both have great minds if we think a like. Just let me pretend for 2 seconds. OK 1.... 2..... OK I am back to a reality check.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
my web store www.sunshines.etsy.com my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/ my google page http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 06:26:50 AM
yes you sew the ends together.
Elastic is typically your waist measurement minus 2 - 7 inches depending on how snugg a feel you like. I test it by figuring it out put a pin through it and pin it on my waist to see how it feels then adjust as needed. I hope this helps each person is little differnt on how they like their clothes to feel that is why the differnce.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
my web store www.sunshines.etsy.com my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/ my google page http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 05:54:29 AM
DUMB SEWER HERE, How do you determine how much elastic to put in a skirt? Do you measure your waste and that is the amount?And when you put the elastic in do you just sew the ends or tack it down all around?
NANCY JO |
| katie-ell |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 04:47:44 AM
Sunshine -- I love that pillowcase skirt! I immediately got out a pillowcase and held it up to me . . . hard to 'try on' a pillowcase, by the way. May have to leave that idea to you slim-hipped gals.
Ann and Elizabeth -- Very interesting learning about cartridge pleats. I did a google search and read about how to make them on a couple different sites. Most interesting. |
| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Aug 18 2006 : 03:55:52 AM
Ann,
Yes, I do use cartridge pleats, especially on my 19th century dresses. I love the look of them. And I'm such a devotee of Tasha Tudor, too. 
- Elizabeth
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 5:27:08 PM
you know is really weird trying to explain to an 8 year old why she is taking a picture of her mothers backside to put on the internet.   It has been the tail end of a few jokes today at our house.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
my store www.sunshines.etsy.com my blog http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/ my google page http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 4:57:00 PM
It's not weird at all, actually looks great on the model! Seeing you in your wrap skirt, I'm sure you'd look great in this one, too. I think you've gotten your husband "broken in" Somehow, the idea of my hips fitting into a pillowcase seems like a long shot! Maybe a sheet... However, a tube of cotton jersey, diagonally cut, with a drawstring is what I'm presently wearing--I didn't make it. My Kenmore, age about 30 years doesn't do knits well at all.
Blessings,
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 2:38:37 PM
PILLOW CASE SKIRT
update I posted this on my blog too
another real simple skirt pattern
real simple to make 1/2 is done already.
this may sound real weird but you can also use a pillow case as a skirt. Saw it on a blog a while back it was actually cute too. Told my husband I wanted to make one. His responce was funny. Well you have worn weirder things than that.
http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2006/05/index.html
above is a link so you can see what I mean. Of course you have to be able to fit your hips in a pillow case. This would never work for my mom.
Just think of all the old hand work done on pillow cases it could be real fun. OK I am an art person and weird I know.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
www.sunshines.etsy.com
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/
http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 2:11:50 PM
To Ann
Yes your comment is there I just cut and pasted my answer from the blog to here so you can read it in either spot.
I like them. I wear them to the grocery store, shopping, to my kids, school, around the house while doing chores, to church. I think they are comfortable. Just make sure you make them out of rayon. If they are made out of cotton they are very hard to wear. With cotton they are stiff don't flow, fit, nicely,and rayon has a little give that cotton doesn't to make it easier to tie. The first one I sugest any one make has real long fringe in case you make it too small you should still be able to tie it with the fringe. It can also be used like a shall. This type of thing if you are in a bathing suit can also be a dress like cover up just tie above breasts and below arm pit ( wasn't a nice description wasn't sure how to phase it. Then it is a wrap around dress. I hope that was understandable. Thank you for the comment.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
www.sunshines.etsy.com
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/
http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 2:00:27 PM
Elizabeth, I also like your Elizabethan petticoat! Do you, by any chance use cartridge pleats? I'm fascinated by them, learning about them through Tasha Tudor...
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 1:57:23 PM
Sunshine, Hi! I've really enjoyed seeing your skirt, which is beautiful! I tried to leave a comment, but microsoft cut me off, so it probably isn't there. I wondered, is your skirt easy to walk and sit in? It's very graceful, and your instructions easy to follow. I'll try another time to look more at your blog--looks very interesting.
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 11:31:53 AM
Thank you those are my hips. I hope you have fun makeing one they are real easy and easy to wear.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
www.sunshines.etsy.com
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/
http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| katie-ell |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 10:45:34 AM
I see! Pretty skirt -- slim model, by the way! I think I can do this. Thanks for sharing! |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 10:43:35 AM
photos where to big for here so look at the items below for links
lets see if this works it is supposed to be a slide show if that doesn't work just go to the blog once it is posted
http://w74.photobucket.com/widgets/dynamicflash.php?featuretype=bucketstrip&featurename=lavalava1&pa=/i258/sunshine_harbaugh/
update it is posted
i also have it posted on my blog now in two posts one front and one back tie. Please let me know if it makes sence thanks. Above is just a slide show. The blog has a description and may answer questions or you can post a question in the comments and I will answer.
sunshine
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
www.sunshines.etsy.com
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/
http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 10:27:26 AM
I just took photos and will post them on my blog on a how to tie a lava lava. Should be up in a few hours if I have time 8 year old took photos so I woun't promise them to be good just useful.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
www.sunshines.etsy.com
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/
http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| katie-ell |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 05:18:03 AM
Thanks, Teddie, for the explanation on the multi-sized patterns. Makes sense. I will check out the pattern books for those easy patterns -- probably will find what I'm looking for. If I had a favorite skirt right now, I'd just use it as a pattern . . . but I've been jean'd for so long, I have no skirts!
Sunshine, I'd like to see the photo, too.
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| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 4:06:04 PM
I'll take a picture tomorrow and post it here.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
www.sunshines.etsy.com
http://sunshinescreations.blogspot.com/
http://sunshine.harbaugh.googlepages.com/home |
| suzyhomemaker |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 4:04:46 PM
It's been so long since I have been on the forum/chatroom. I love to sew and have been wanting to make myself some new skirts as well. I bought the special issue "Sew Simple" with the intent to make some skirts and the sundress. it looks super easy and quick.
I also bought a pattern from Hancocks of Paducah called Cute Skirts by Favorite Things Pattern Design.
I am stil ltrying to picture how to tie the wrap skirt.
Country girl in NE PA |
| theoanne |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 3:44:23 PM
Katie,
In answer to your multisize pattern question..... They started this quite awhile ago. It's great for kids. As they grow you don't have to buy more patterns. Especially good for shorts pants and PJ's. As for patterns that are adult size it makes them easier to fit. I'm smaller on top and bigger on bottom. So I buy for the bigger part , but then I can cut the top on a smaller size line. So you can use whatever size to fit the specific area. they are Great!
If you go to the SEW NEWS site there is a free pattern that is in the new mag Sew Simple. It looks easy I'm gonna try it too. Oh yeah, did you find the easy patterns? Each pattern company has a section in the pattern book with easy and cheaper patterns. They are usually under 2.00 and pretty quick to do. Simplicity's are called It's so Easy ans Mc Call's is Stitch and Save. These patterns are usually about 3/4 of the way through the pattern books. Look for the tab. I also like New Look patterns. Again under 2.00. Hope this helps. Enjoy getting back into sewing.
TEDDIE |
