Joel Michael
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Slowly working my way through the prototypes of my upcoming designs, yesterday with the second sea slug magnet!
I’m super happy with it, though I might adjust the shape of the foot flappies a bit.
Coral reef collection should arrive mid to end of September!
#art #handmade #wip#workInProgress#Ocean#WildLife#Nature#SmallBusiness #sewing #embroidery #fediverse#fediArt#Pixelfed#MastoArt
Slowly working my way through the prototypes of my upcoming designs, yesterday with the second sea slug magnet!
I’m super happy with it, though I might adjust the shape of the foot flappies a bit.
Coral reef collection should arrive mid to end of September!
#art #handmade #wip#workInProgress#Ocean#WildLife#Nature#SmallBusiness #sewing #embroidery #fediverse#fediArt#Pixelfed#MastoArt
Yay, Wawak order arrived! Upgrade from crayons! #sewing
I made myself another Vampire Lestat band merch tee!
First I sewed a teeshirt using grey marl jersey, then cut out the vectorised designs on my Silhouette machine & ironed them into place.
The tour dates were SO fiddly to weed - 4-5 hours each! 😭
https://blog.fehrtrade.com/gallery/10170/the-looming-face-of-lestat-on-a-teeshirt/ #sewing#iwtv
A white woman with long brown hair is sitting outside talking a selfie. She's wearing a grey teeshirt shirt with a menacing face and “The Vampire Lestat” in scrawled script underneath.
A grey teeshirt is on a an ironing board. On the back of the shirt in white HTV is “The Vampire Lestat” and a long list of tour date locations in two columns. Red glitter state abbreviations are partially in place next to the city names, along with a pair of scissors and a ruler.
A grey teeshirt is on a dressform inside a room. On the back of the shirt in red glitter and white HTV is “The Vampire Lestat” and a long list of tour date locations in two columns.
A grey teeshirt is on a dressform inside a room. On the shirt in black and white HTV is a menacing face and “The Vampire Lestat” in scrawled script underneath.
Result is: uh oh, the middle of this most certainly will NOT work. I am slightly sucking in my gut so the pin doesn't pop out! Wayyyy too small around my middle section. Cc @EugestShirley @femme_mal #tailoring #sewing
Patterns cut. It took a few hours with interruptions, but sewed everything together for front and back and also did the darts. #sewing
Fabric for the test pattern. Tailor's Chalk being delivered but not hear yet from Wawak, so it's a purple crayon. #sewing
Okay, the plan now per the suggestions here is to cut out the "M" pattern, and then trace it onto some of the cheap fabric I have (the white thin cotton there) and pin it together (sew?), and check for fit. Before tracing and cutting the Barney colored purple duck fabric (quack quack?) #sewing
It is sometimes necessary, in these difficult times, to spend an hour scrolling through clothing sites, hoping that one of these gowns is going to give you the strength to fight fascism.
@evacide that is the same reason quite a number of people do #fibertart #knitting #sewing etc. Keep it up! 💃Gowns to the rescue!
I sewed a simple summer shell top using the Cashmerette Club Thorndike Tank pattern. Luckily, I had the perfect fabric in my stash!
It may be simple, but it's got lovely details throughout - fully faced edges and a back button closure. Perfect for summer!
https://blog.fehrtrade.com/gallery/10168/a-minty-fresh-thorndike-tank/ #sewing
A white woman with brown hair up in a bun is seated outside on a patio, wearing a mint shell top with ink splatters printed on it. She's looking at the camera and smiling.
Detail of the back neck of a mint coloured blouse with ink splatter print in shades of green and pink. There's a faced keyhole opening with a bias loop and flat cream pearly button at the top.
A white woman with brown hair up in a bun is standing outside, wearing a mint shell top with ink splatters printed on it. She's turned to the side, looking at the camera and smiling.
A white woman with brown hair up in a bun is standing outside, wearing a mint shell top with ink splatters printed on it. She's looking at the camera and smiling.
The research fairy
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I’m trying to really interrogate what I get/want to get out of sewing. I love that feeling of lost time, of absolute absorption, of complete mastery and the pleasure of finishing a project completely, and setting it aside absolutely finished (something that was not part of my life in my career, where nothing ever really ‘ended’).
And for some reasons, I feel like all machines somewhat get in the way of that. #sewing #kimono #haori
I’m trying to really interrogate what I get/want to get out of sewing. I love that feeling of lost time, of absolute absorption, of complete mastery and the pleasure of finishing a project completely, and setting it aside absolutely finished (something that was not part of my life in my career, where nothing ever really ‘ended’).
And for some reasons, I feel like all machines somewhat get in the way of that. #sewing #kimono #haori
Part of my thinking has to do with trying to understand myself. In truth, I sew better by hand than with a machine. I always feel like machines ‘take over’. I have never found a comfortable speed for the machine sewing. It always feels like it’s racing ahead of me. I’ve pissed around with the speed screw on my foot pedal on my sewing machine, but even at the slowest setting always feels too damn fast. A serger is going to be the same. #sewing #kimono #haori
One of the aims of this project is to challenge my finishing skills. Because the seam finishes are going to be visible through the fabric, and like viscose, this stuff frays like crazy, everything will require a french seam. Luckily, Haori sleeves go on straight! I am going to attempt to strictly match the fabric pattern at the joins and I have just enough flexibility in the pattern to do this. #sewing #kimono #haori
This fabric is not my favourite - I much prefer to work with natural fibres. But silk organza was beyond my financial reach. These were both in the remnants bin at my fabric store, they’re 2 meters each, and they were priced at 5 euros each. I guess someone ordered them cut but didn’t buy them #sewing #kimono #haori
Random #sewing question for the Fediverse. I know I have to wash and dry these fabrics to shrink them, so no cutting until that is done. Do I cut off approximately the amount I need before washing, or should I just wash the entirety of the fabric I have (too large, but not much larger than required fabric -- 2 yards of the outside and 2 yards of the liner fabric. I'm going to go outside - Pokemon, inside - black nylon/poly)?
Interesting, first glitch in the "sew a vest" project, is these patterns are all men's XL. I am L. I am pretty sure I can shrink all of the cuts in proportion to adjust the size, though. #sewing
