Thursday, March 2, 2017
Belt with Ronen!
Leather belt with etched copper belt! Got materials from Tandy Leather, now just need the time to work on it.
Brainstorming belt design ideas, got some cool hand drawn celtic knots from my sister which I think would be pretty cool.
Brainstorming belt design ideas, got some cool hand drawn celtic knots from my sister which I think would be pretty cool.
Lasercut Cotton Designs
My sister's baby shower is in a few weeks and my mom put me in charge of figuring out what gift/trinket the guests should get at the end. Naturally, I'm thinking of making something. The only direction was it should be pink (ugh) because the baby's a girl and that's a traditional baby shower thing. I've been brainstorming sewing ideas because I've lately been on that kick and have been interested in trying to lasercut fabric and see what the restuls are. The other day, a woman at tech shop was doing just that with lots of success so I feel even more motivated to try. Stopped at the store the other day and picked up two colors of cotton along with iron on seam paper. As soon as I get the chance to make some designs and cut them out I'll make a post!
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Coffee Table with Pull Out Seats
The Plan: Been thinking about this for a while and just haven't had the chance to get around to it. Wooden coffee table with slide out storage seats. Hoping it could really be helpful in my tiny room in my apartment, but not sure how permanent my current residence is so don't want to make too many big things until I know whether or not I'll be staying a while.
Making a Fleece: Designing a Pattern
I've been interested in trying to make my own patterns for sewing and I'm a big fan of fleeces (plus it's been pretty cold lately) so I've decided to try making a fleece sweatshirt! The design is loosely based off this classic Patagonia sweatshirt that my friend has. I've been considering buying one for a while, but they're pretty expensive so we'll see how successful I am at making one.
After looking at the seams I quickly realized I know nothing about proper sewing seams so I tried doing some research. The following links proved pretty helpful:
To start off, I took a look at the existing sweatshirt (from pics online) and tried to figure out how it worked, i.e. what do the seams look like, how many pieces will I need to cut, what material is it etc. I drew the following sketch to try and begin piecing it all together in my head:
(insert pic of sketch from notebook)
The mock/faux flat fell seam looked particularly cool so I tested it out on a piece of fleece I had laying around and got the following result. It looks way better than the standard "just stitch it inside out" strategy I had always been running off of.
(insert pic of sample flat fell seam)
I have no idea how dimensions work for clothing design so I decided to just take an existing sweatshirt I have and trace the outline for each piece. Some previous patterns I've sewn recommend a 5/8" seam so I left that much extra fabric around the edges. I used a sharpie to trace everything and then cut. PRO TIP: BUY A ROTARY CUTTER!! It's essentially a pizza cutter for cloth. I didn't have this for the first half of my fabric cutting but when I got it, it CHANGED MY WORLD.
Then began the process of sewing together the seams. I decided to put together the pieces on the front panel first, I was mostly concerned that if connecting pieces were different sizes there would be trouble. So I sewed together the front three pieces and checked with the back panel to make sure they were roughly the same size. Did a little trimming here to get them more precise.
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