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But I love it and have worn it a ton since making it!

I'm a sort of "intermediate beginner" sewist and made a few things for a recent holiday that I will dig up pics and post about here over the next few days.

But one of those things was just this really basic tiered skirt from a bedsheet that I got for £2 at a charity shop. Can't go wrong for that price and a couple of hours work! Followed this WikiHow tutorial for sizes etc.

The sheet was a single, so wasn't quite big enough to get as much gathering on the bottom tier as I'd planned. But whatever.

Didn't even end up wearing this one on holiday but it's been great for flouncing around the house in, and that's a win in my book 😀

Sometimes it's the simple projects that bring the most joy!

I picked it up to do some canvas projects. Sews through 6 layers of canvas pretty easily! First simple thing I made (warning, pretty amateur sewing :) )

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So I added some tiny fishes!

The shirt itself was roughly copied from one I had and the fit is.... well, I can put it on which is nice, but I try not to move too much while wearing it. The shoulers and upper sleeves are tight and it's too long. But I bought an expensive fancy fabric that feels nice, and the details are ridiculously hard to do, so I keep it like that. I only wear it like 4 times a year.

Sloppy edge because I was just in a hurry to get it done, and I also ran out of that color.

Made it for a trip, but it's too large. I'm pretty frustrated at myself for that. Oh well..

Yay or nay?

I was looking at the special edition Bernina machines and they are pretty, but I can't justify the extra $1,000 price difference. I decided to add my own stickers instead.

They love it.

Hey, I really would like to try out sewing, but I never did anything like that. How to start?

Have you finally done a thing that you have been putting off for long? Figuring the invisible zipper? Putting sleeves on correctly on first try? Conquered a new fiddly fabric? Created the most perfect fit?

It has been downhill since the stripped dress I'm afraid, but that dress has the most perfectly matching stripes all around and that makes me very proud! (I have also finally brought my machine to the repair shop and it's running much more smoothly, huge improvement)

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/961782

Dunno about you but I never know where to put WIP projects so a lot of them end up on this dummy. I was just walking past and realised how well the colours match in this one-sleeved jumper I've been knitting and the bralette I've been sewing!

I figured, how often do you get to crosspost the same thing between knitting and sewing communities? So here we are lol.

Knitting pattern is the Justyna Jumper by Justyna Srock, and I've somehow been on with it for months even though it's a very quick knit, multicrafter problems and all that.

The sewing pattern is the Ellie Bralette from NH Patterns, it's definitely designed for someone 20 years younger and a lot less curvy than me, but on the other hand it's fun and it's reversible and I've made this plus an almost-finished matching skirt out of a 50p bedding set so you can't go wrong 😄

I made this as a gift. This was my first attempt at making this pattern and my first Papercut Pattern outfit. It turned out well! I would consider myself an advanced beginner. The directions included were relatively easy to follow.

The only thing I changed is adding an additional 7 cm in length and about 3 cm in width to the skirt ruffle. When I first sewed the ruffle on with the original pattern, it didn't have enough ruffles for my taste.

It was a great challenge for someone at my skill level. I felt I really leveled up with this pattern. I would definitely make this again!

Do you have any tool that you use all the time? Do you recommend it to everyone unprompted? Is it ridiculously specific to your situation, wants and needs? Let every one know how they can make their sewing better!!

I myself don't have any at the moment, but I have been eyeing a nice pair of left-handed fabrid scissors for quite some time and I might get it some day.

Started this "simple summery dress" last year, had to redo the top part because the previous plan was very ugly. After a few wear decided that it needed some decorations. So I added a few flowers and beads. I am really happy to be able to wear it this summer though, it's really comfy.

I'm rennovating an old singer sewing machine, I was wondering what oil people reccomended for the moving parts.

For her birthday, my sister wanted the bodysuit pictured on the left. Unfortunately its not for sale anymore, so she asked me to take a stab at recreating it. To make things more complicated we live about 800 miles apart and she would not be able to try it on to get the size right.

She mailed me a solid bodysuit that fit her pretty well and I traced it to get the right size. Then I went about drafting up the straps that would make up the front of the bodysuit as well as the gloves built into the arms.

We decided on a snakeskin patterned jersey fabric, something a little wild to match this bold outfit, and it came out looking really good! And I had enough fabric to make her a matching skirt!

This was my first time using a serger and I am never going back! I love this thing. It took some serious trial and error to get the right settings though. I used stretch thread in the upper threads and wooly nylon in the loops and that seemed to offer a good amount of stretch. Once I figured that out though it was a lot of fun!

Sorry for the potato quality, my ill-fitting blouse, and also the weird food stain on my ill-fitting blouse 😅

So I've got what they call "hella wide hips" and also a ridiculously short waist, which is never a great combo for getting things to fit well. I'd heard tell of the mythical beast that is a curved waistband, but being relatively inexperienced at sewing I was a bit scared to give it a go until now.

Look at this! There's a full three inch difference in circumference from the top to the bottom of the band because my hips start so high up and go out basically perpendicular to my body. But it fits me so well you can barely tell my body is such a weird shape lol.

Fashion advice for short-waisted ladies is to not wear anything high-waisted like this, but of course fashion advice for wide hipped ladies is to ALWAYS wear high-waisted things like this, so I can't win and figured I might as well go with what's comfortable to wear even if it does basically come up to my boobs 😂

It wasn't very complicated really and I know experienced sewists will be thinking "er, this is so basic". But I'm proud of myself for taking the plunge and so excited to wear this skirt (still a bit of work to do and I'm making a matching top so will post the full outfit once it's finished).

I put pockets in as well, on a pattern that didn't come with pockets. Eeeeh, look at me go! 😎

That's my drawing for a sea-horse soft toy for a -not-so-newborn baby of a friend. I'd love to hear your opinions.

I'm thinking of using two or three different fabrics and satin tags for the fins, perhaps some yarn as "hair".

I know seahorses have spikes and baby would love them, but I doubt I can realistically tackle that level of sewing detail.

What do you think about the overall shape and size? Or anything else I haven't thought of?

Edit: Working on the picture issue, please hold... :) Edit 2: Picture uploaded, typo corrected.