Abifae - Ciao Babies!

[Wifezilla]

Oh no!!!!

I feel your pain. It took me 5 times to get the sleeves right and about 10 to get the collar right on my hoodie. I finally figured it out, but some stuff is SO not intuitive

 

[Farmfresh]

>Very gently and softly and served with a warm glass of milk<

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr.

Poor Abi gal needs nap to become un flustered.

 

[abifae]

>Very gently and softly and served with a warm glass of milk<

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr.

Poor Abi gal needs nap to become un flustered.

I love you.



After a nice long nap *licks her fur back into place and stretches luxuriously* I'll try again. I think the issue is I don't have anyone to help with fitting. I'm trying to line up the one partial line it said was bust to my bust and the line that said waist to my waist, but it's all very confusing.

MY patterns mark the bust, hips, and waist all the way around the entire wrong side for easier matching. So there.

Yeh Auntie!!! This pattern is anti intuitive. I think they do it so you think patterns are scary and won't try your own.

So why is it that I took too SMALL a pattern (I'm actually a 16/18 in paper patterns) and it was way too big for me? When they say 30" they apparently mean 36". Or do they add WAAAAAY more ease than makes sense?

It can't be ease. They have boning added. With basically no instructions how to do this. I tried to find them. Just to note: you cannot use boning with a LIGHT FABRIC and a lining. It makes no sense.

Off to cut the top off and recut the bodice part. Sans frakkin lining. It is POSSIBLE that Amira chasing her tail in the silk while I was cutting could have thrown off my measurements. It is also possible I wasn't on the grain. *giggles*

ETA: WOOT! I don't have to redo the top. I took in four huge darts. I think I figured out the confusion. The WAIST is 30. It is assuming that a 36 bust has a bigger UNDER BUST. I don't. I'm 30 from waist to under bust. So that's why there was extra there. This was still for a b cup. LOL. A 36-B. Once I took that in, there is still plent of bust cover (it has over and under pleats for the halter), and with the bra, no issue of spillage. Now it's just "clean up sewing".... ie, remove all the basting for testing sizes and then top stitch the seams we're using.

*beams*

re-ETA... well actually I sorta do. It fits now, but the lining is pulling funny so I can't press it for top sewing. *rolls eyes. I think the lining was the only stupid here. gonna cut it out and press the stupid thing LOL

 

[abifae]

*waves to everyone while rushing around*

Lots to do! 4 chapters to read this weekend for class, plus I have to clean the sewing room.

This morning is errands time and farmer's market Then I get home and do the house cleaning (vacuuming and last load of laundry) and then I start the sewing room. *cues the spooky music*

I have about 20 boxes to go through. MOST of them are a quick "25 yards of raw silk, uncut" close box again. Some need gone through

 

[Dace]

Enjoy your day Abster

I love going to the FM....but we have a full day of rain on the agenda, so I will be busy lounging by the fire, taking breaks only to start a pot of beef bourguignon and start some seeds

I get so frustrated by sewing, I don't know how you do it! I was in a fabric store getting felt for a my DDs softball banner ( I CAN cut and glue, that's about it) anyway, DD was with me and saw some pretty fabric and asked me to make her something! Ack! I told her maybe this summer we can break out the sewing machine and I can attempt to make her a skirt. Maybe sooner, but ugh, sewing? I have very little patience.

 

[abifae]

Start really simple A skirt that is just 2 rectangles, sew a seam, and use a tie for the top.

 

[Dace]

Sheesh, you make it sound so easy....for me it is more like rocket science

 

[abifae]

There's an SCA class that starts you with towels and safety pins... to understand how clothing goes together

 

[Farmfresh]

Your Farm Market must differ significantly from our local one.

Ours is open two days a week May through October and only produce that you grew yourself is allowed to be sold there. Before May there is little to sell in these parts. Also our market won't allow the sales of eggs, milk, meat or personally canned goods like jelly etc. Don't ask me why. When I asked about the eggs they said they had to be refrigerated constantly and that coolers would NOT be acceptable. I brought blown eggs just to advertise for customers to come to the house for them and they STILL got in a huff! Our market is also in a parking lot and out of the back of a truck or under a little shade tent with a table.

Once I understood it's limitations - it is still a great place to shop and sell. I sold my blackberries there for many years and still buy my fresh un-sprayed sweet corn there as well as fruit and vegetable seconds to can (like tomatoes).

We also have a market in Kansas City that is much more like shops. You can buy almost anything there including coffee, tea and tropicals.

What is your market like?

 

[abifae]

What is your market like?

It is in a big warehouse... there are things people grew, a couple freezer sections for meat sellers and there is the cooler for the raw milk folk (they sell eggs and cheese too).

Then there are bread sellers, and a lot of other made-foods. Ice creams and people selling lunches and stuff.

There's a guy who sells herb mixes for cooking, the guy with goat milk products, a table of home made pastas...

It's a mix.

The other markets are more produce heavy, but ours is more small businesses.