Category: Sewing

All my sewing adventures

New sewing toys

Mum and I went shopping today to get my Birthday/Christmas presents and I got some sewing machine accessories to fuel my addictive hobby.

The first one is an even feed foot (walking foot). I will be using it for working with PUL and also when going over large seams (like the 6 layers of denim I have been working with recently). It is also good for knit and stretchy fabrics.

The second box contains a dual needle. I never knew these existed for my sewing machine and had thought you had to have a more advanced one or overlocker. I have been doing all my topstitching twice to get the double effect.

The third one is an overcast foot to make overlocking more precise and make the tension even. This is my present from Angie (my MIL)

The fourth one is a Ditch Quilting foot. It is to keep straight when topstitching across a folded seam.

I also have a ruffle foot on order, you guessed it, it makes ruffles.

There is one other kit that I really want. It is for blind hems, rolled hems and bias tape. I’m sure between other Christmas and Birthday presents, I’ll be able to score it 😀

So many goodies

For my upcoming birthday, I asked for a couple of feet for my sewing machine. I wanted a ruffle foot, overcast foot and walking foot. When I was talking to mum tonight she said that she has an accessory booklet for janome that has LOTS of feet etc listed. So I went searching on the net…

http://janome.com/index.cfm/Machines/Accessories/Sewing_Machine_Feet

I didn’t know that there were so many goodies out there, some of them would really be helpful. Time to sort through and work out further birthday and christmas presents :)

new nappies

I’ve been busy all afternoon and having a great time. These are today’s creations

I’ve been teaching myself how to applique. The crab was my own creation, the sheep came from the fabric I made sammy’s original sleep suit out of.

All but the denim nappy have gussets and take 8 layers of bamboo. 4 in the inside and 4 in the pocket. I was impressed my sewing machine easily made it through the 4 layers of bamboo with a layer of fleece on top.

Shirt take 2

This is my attempt two at a shirt for sammy. Many cotton shirts have a collar stand (think that is what it is called) whereas the pattern didn’t. I made up one for this shirt.

There is no puckering and everything sits as it should and the arms and seams are inline so I’m happy with the effort. While it has a lot of improvements on the last one and I have learnt more again, it still is far from perfect.

Sammy’s new Shirt

Last Sunday, I started on a new sewing adventure. I must admit that it has been my most challenging adventure so far. Here is the final result.

Overall I’m really proud of my effort. I’m especially happy with the checks lining up and the buttons. The collar and sleeves were really challenging! for a newbie like me. I’ve learnt a lot through the experience and now have 3 other pieces of cotton to implement my learnt lessons.