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Mrs Shrew
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Oooh brilliant, thank you both so much!
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Lothlorien
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A link for Clarence so as not to clutter up the AS board and incur the wrath of an AS host ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) If you like those lovely over the knees, you may like the Mojo pattern. Not as long as the ones you posted in your link, but certainly different. The different stitches make the tension in the sock quite differently but it all comes out in the wash. Or perhaps on the foot. I have made these, and they fit just fine. Actually, it is more of an idea than a pattern.
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Firenze
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For those who know me on FB, you'll have seen a succession (5 so far) of dresses made from recycling other garments. The recipe has been simple - take an existing top, cut it apart between the sleeves and the neckline, insert strips of another fabric. Attach skirt - either an existing one, or one composed of patchwork - to the newly widened bodice.
One of the more successful productions has been marrying a matching shirt blouse and dirndl. I'm about to launch on another such, but in this case the skirt is not gathered - in fact, it's made up of a yoke and some bias-cut pieces: so how to increase its width? I think the solution is to stagger an insert, by putting a piece in the yoke, and the equivalent width somewhere in the bottom half. The blouse is straight cut but in order to create a similar appearance I intend cutting it horizonally as well as vertically and again staggering the insert.
I feel I am finding out a great deal more about dressmaking by these projects that I ever did in all the years of following patterns.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Firenze, if you're cutting it both horizontally and vertically, how about looking at the patterns in the YSL Mondrian shift dress and making all the cuts off centre - a bit like this. Yes, I have been watching the Great British Sewing Bee
It would work with the top straight blouse section, but I'm not sure how well it would work with the bias cut skirt, but you might be able to busk around that idea, so a shift gently flaring out.
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Surfing Madness
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Getting back into sewing after a long break, my cheap and now old sewing box is falling apart....any recommendations on what to look for in a new one? I want something quirky but not sure how practical the quirky ones are. All thoughts welcome.
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Brenda Clough
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I too have returned to a project set aside for years. I was going to knit a life sized giant squid -- just because, not for any particular purpose. I handily knit a tube 6 feet long and 1 foot wide for the body, side fins and eye sockets all complete. The eyeballs are green plastic toy balls about 5 inches in diameter, that glow in the dark.) But I fell off the sled when it came to the tentacles, eight of them six feet long and two feeder palps ten feet long. The idea of knitting that much tubing by hand is too much even for me.
So I set the squid aside until I got hold of a Singer knitting machine, a toy whose sole purpose is knitting tubes. Think a knitting noddy, scaled up and with a hand crank. In three days I have produced about 7 feet of tubing. Only 50-odd feet to go.
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Doone
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S M I would certainly go big, as there's never enough room for all the bits and bobs u ![[Biased]](wink.gif) . Lots of separate compartments, otherwise things get a jumbled mess very quickly. Make sure any tray 'inserts' are not made of plastic, as they split and break too easily (as I've found to my own cost ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif) ).
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Firenze, if you're cutting it both horizontally and vertically, how about looking at the patterns in the YSL Mondrian shift dress and making all the cuts off centre - a bit like this. Yes, I have been watching the Great British Sewing Bee
I have been watching that series devotedly, especially the repurposing section.
The Mondrian shift depends on fit and precision - which is so not what I do. Did I mention that an object of this was to dressmake without having to do the bothersome bits like facings, setting in sleeves, finishing necklines etc? It's noticeable that the more successful ones are in stretch fabric, and I have yet to come up with ideas for linen items.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
A link for Clarence so as not to clutter up the AS board and incur the wrath of an AS host If you like those lovely over the knees, you may like the Mojo pattern. Not as long as the ones you posted in your link, but certainly different. The different stitches make the tension in the sock quite differently but it all comes out in the wash. Or perhaps on the foot. I have made these, and they fit just fine. Actually, it is more of an idea than a pattern.
Yummy!
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Banner Lady
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So here is something to think about, all you who love to knit and crochet !
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
So here is something to think about, all you who love to knit and crochet !
WOW!
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Banner Lady
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I rather like the work of this 104 yr old, too...
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I have been watching that series devotedly, especially the repurposing section.
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Did I mention that an object of this was to dressmake without having to do the bothersome bits like facings, setting in sleeves, finishing necklines etc? It's noticeable that the more successful ones are in stretch fabric, and I have yet to come up with ideas for linen items. [/QB]
I loved the repurposing of saris and scarves in particular.
I gathered you were using all the fiddly stuff in situ. There's someone who makes the most amazing patchwork garments who might give you ideas if I can track her down.
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In the early 80's, on a trip to California, I was given a waistcoat made from rescued bits of an old patchwork quilt - which, as the pieces in the patchwork were probably old scraps, makes it repurposed repurposed ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Celtic Knotweed
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Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
Getting back into sewing after a long break, my cheap and now old sewing box is falling apart....any recommendations on what to look for in a new one? I want something quirky but not sure how practical the quirky ones are. All thoughts welcome.
Well, I'm using one of these for most of my knitting supplies. Yarn stash in the bottom, needles in the insert tray. Sections in the outside of the lid hold scrap yarn used for markers and other random small bits. The current project goes in a canvas bag along with a copy of the pattern inside an A4 plastic wallet, so that I don't have to lug anything I don't need about the place. Eminently practical (for me), cost much less than the usual type of box, and wasn't pink/flowery! (The last is a major plus for me). At the mo the canvas bag is in with the yarn, as nothing started right now.
The maternal Knotweed is still using as her sewing box, a box from Mothercare which was probably bought when I was born and designed to hold the infinite baby stuff all first-time mothers get.
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Brenda Clough
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Knitting is inherently more portable than sewing, especially if you sew on a machine. I amass tote bags, from meetings and so on. I must have north of a dozen. The current project goes into a bag for transport, pattern, needles and yarn. I keep a thread cutter, markers, etc. in a little metal box which is easy to move from bag to bag. Smaller bags are for small projects, big ones go on airplane trips so that there is room for the Ipad and a book.
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I think the library book I was remembering with the amazing patchwork clothing designs was one of the Judy Murrah books - there are several, some available second hand for pennies. The books gave instructions and patterns for making patchwork clothes with style.
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Surfing Madness
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I'm looking for inspiration, and also practical information, I've lots weight, and now have loads of slightly nicer than normal tshirts that don't fit, want to do something with them, but no idea what! Any ideas or pointing towards ideas much appreciated. Thanks.
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Brenda Clough
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Are they of sentimental value? You could cut out just the fronts (a square, taking in the logo) and then sew them together into a patchwork. Use either as a top for a coverlet, or frame and hang.
Are they of no value to you? You could cut them up, in a spiral from the hem up, and when you have a long tee-shirty string, pull. The strip will curl in on itself into a cord. This can be knit or crocheted into a rather heavy fabric, suitable for mats or even small carpets. I did this once, and still have the bath mat.
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Penny S
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Or cut the strips into smaller pieces about 4 inches long and use them to make a rag rug by hooking through canvas or hessian. Or keep them long, plait (braid) them, and then sew them in a big spiral to make another sort of rag rug.
Or sew the hem together to make a bag, rolling the sleeves up to make the handles, and give them to friends and relations or charity shops.
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Firenze
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As mentioned above, my current obsession is chopping and recombining. If you have any requirement for beach dresses, kaftans, kimonos, dressing gowns or bathrobes, there's a lot of fun to be had in mixing and matching colours and patterns.
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Banner Lady
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Surfing madness: google Pinterest and repurposed t-shirts. You will have hundreds of ideas to choose from.
BL. Now attempting to make long blue evening gloves for a 3 yr old determined to have a "proper" cinderella outfit. Disney have a LOT to answer for!
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Brenda Clough
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I have done this. Tee shirt material is very forgiving; make a pair of gloves and then add the long tubes to the wrists to go up the arms.
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Penny S
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If you do cut strips out of T-shirts, there are some patterns made for a yarn called zpaghetti, which is made from waste jersey fabric, which might give some ideas.
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Banner Lady
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Brenda, she is getting simple blue jersey tubes, pointed over the hand and with an elastic finger loop like ballroom dancers wear.
I have, however, picked out the top and bottom of each glove with hand sewn pearly blue sequins.
If they were real gloves they would be filthy in no time. After I did the Dorothy outfit she wore it every day until her father put his foot down re needing to wash it. Fortunately it is a drip dry gingham (yes, not a skerrick of cotton to be found in modern store ginghams these days!) i.e.: 100% polyester. So it dried in no time.
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Brenda Clough
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Oh, that is -very- sensible. Never put more work into it than you have to, especially for the very little person.
Once when my daughter was about 2 I made her a Snow White costume. This is the one from the Disney movie, yellow skirt, red cape, white collar, etc. She is dark haired and looked wonderful in it. I only was willing to put in this work because I have five nieces, also all dark-haired. so that little dress got handed down a long way.
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
I'm involved in a craft group at our church hall. Recently, we've been joined by a group of people - male and female, who have learning disabilities. They have two care staff with them
We are looking for ideas for crafts which the rest of the group will enjoy, but which can be adapted for this group to do as well.
It's got to be something reasonably inexpensive, we give £1 per week towards equipment. So far, we have done napkin decoupage onto tiles, bead bracelets and painted earthenware pots.
Can anyone suggest anything?
(I think this must be the first time ever I have looked at this thread, as I'm not a craft person! Even when I could see properly, and enjoyed doing knitting etc, I only did a little. However, the topic of things for children to do in the holidays came up elsewhere, so that's why I'm here today.)
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I wonder whether making a rope might work? Have plenty of lengths of different coloured wools about 8 ft long (if I remember correctly from when I did a project on string with a year 6 class many moons ago) but you'd have to have a trial go first. Take three strands of different colours, knot the three together at both ends, then keeping threads taut, twist (in opposite directions of course ![[Smile]](smile.gif) ) until it's twisted tightly enough to hold the middle, to put ends together, run a hand back down to the other end and make the rope.
All the children I ever did this with loved it. If they let go accidentally a couple of times, it seems you would have help from the carers although actually holding the end with
the person is the way to assist, not taking over.
A small rod or something to hold to do the turning is a good idea.
As art and craft persons, all here will probably know all this, but I mention it just in case it might help!
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Brenda Clough
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I have done this. The twisting is hard on your hands if you have arthritis or joint issues. I got around that by tying the strings to a hand mixer. (Gosh, I must copy this over to the using things for different purposes thread.)
If you have access to an oven, I have had grand luck with making pear chips. Get a pear, slice it very thinly -- shove it through a mandoline if you can. Lay the slices out on pieces of parchment paper and roast at 400 degrees until they are brown and crispy. Eat. A one-ingredient recipe is as simple as you can go. Scale up as much as you want be be warned that you need an awful lot of baking sheets.
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Jengie jon
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Actually, I suspect, having done this as a child, that Brenda it is the level of twisting you want to get, that necessitated the mixer. This will work at a pretty low intensity for the twist, you just get a looser rope.
However it is the length of the initial strands that you need to get any length of rope. I worked out that you need at least six times the length of rope you want and preferably more than that. The tighter the desired twist the more length required initially. You fold it double to start with and then double it again when are finished plus it is twisted together not straight.
Also no need for pairs except for sociability, tying the other end to a chair and a person can twist on their own. The trick is to keep a reasonable tension particularly with tighter twists as it tends to twist together too soon otherwise. Loose twists require less tension and for decorative purposes work as well.
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Brenda Clough
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I remember coaching my toddler son on how to help me. If you use a mixer you have to be careful -- the possibilities for disaster are very great! But he was able to grasp the center of the line and hold it, while I walked the mixer back around to the starting point and let the two halves twist around each other.
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St. Gwladys
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I like the idea of making twisted cord, but what could we use it for? We have a two hour session, so it has to be something we can work on for that time.
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SusanDoris
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
I like the idea of making twisted cord, but what could we use it for? We have a two hour session, so it has to be something we can work on for that time.
That is the point at which I failed! fortunately, as it counted as a sort of science experiment, my responsibility ended at the point where the mini-rope was made/!
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As mentioned above, my current obsession is chopping and recombining. If you have any requirement for beach dresses, kaftans, kimonos, dressing gowns or bathrobes, there's a lot of fun to be had in mixing and matching colours and patterns.
Hey, that's all rather feminine ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I came by two of these rather flash overalls in the skip at work - the guy I work for must always go down on his right knee, as both had a destroyed right leg.
So I took the left leg off one pair, turned it round, and sewed it on in place of the knackered right leg removed from the other. Getting it correct across the arse was...a pain in the arse. I had to wear it part-done and pin it in situ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
The remainder turned into a rather odd-looking jacket, long in the front, which I wear with leather trousers when trying not to set fire to myself with home-foundry work. Oh yes, ladies
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Penny S
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I thought I would have to make a rope myself today, as John Lewis has stopped stocking the sort of shiny cord I wanted as a tie for the waist of a pair of trousers I am not going to be making any time soon. And it's not easy to find on line, either.
I am not going to be making the trousers soon because I went into John Lewis to buy the fabric, and found that what was rolled up was two pieces, neither of which was long enough for my project - the assistant and I spent ages juggling with the pattern pieces and the fabric, and it wouldn't even work sideways on, so I've had to order online, and it won't arrive for ages. I was all ready to cut out tonight and sew tomorrow morning, too. And I've had to order extra fabric, as they only deal in whole metres. I shall have enough to make something else, but I'm not sure what. Hat? very skimpy waistcoat? It will be interesting to see how much there is, after applying the placing skills acquired at school, and ensuring that the pattern on each leg matches front and back and left to right. I can't stand seeing patterned trousers where the sides don't match.
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As mentioned above, my current obsession is chopping and recombining. If you have any requirement for beach dresses, kaftans, kimonos, dressing gowns or bathrobes, there's a lot of fun to be had in mixing and matching colours and patterns.
Hey, that's all rather feminine
I came by two of these rather flash overalls in the skip at work - the guy I work for must always go down on his right knee, as both had a destroyed right leg.
So I took the left leg off one pair, turned it round, and sewed it on in place of the knackered right leg removed from the other. Getting it correct across the arse was...a pain in the arse. I had to wear it part-done and pin it in situ...
The remainder turned into a rather odd-looking jacket, long in the front, which I wear with leather trousers when trying not to set fire to myself with home-foundry work. Oh yes, ladies
Feminine? Not necessarily. My dad did all the sewing when I was young, madeall clothes for the three of us and taught me to sew.
Well done, I'll bet you get lots of comments on them.
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I take MinM to mean all the garments I proposed were rather feminine, rather than the activity of sewing (or whence tailors?)
I need to get out the machine again. In the course of organising the sewing room into a temporary guest room the other week, I confronted the true extent of the fabric/recyclables stash. At the moment it's in two packed and toppling hamper/log basket. I need to acquire some storage whereby I can sort it by compatible fabric.
I suspect the kind of plastic drawer unit would be the most practical, if not the most aesthetic - what do others use?
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I use an inherited blanket chest, with boxes and bags for the sorting inside. It has a couple of small drawers at the base which allows extra sorting. The chief problem is that the flat top encourages the putting of things on it, which reduces usefulness and ease of access. But it's big.
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I take MinM to mean all the garments I proposed were rather feminine, rather than the activity of sewing (or whence tailors?)
Absolutely - which is why I saw your recycled kimono (as it were) and raised you a horrible pair of orange cut-and-shut overalls (A lot of the students in our lab / workshop are Iraqi at the moment, so we have to tone down the Guantanamo-chic gags).
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I suspect the kind of plastic drawer unit would be the most practical, if not the most aesthetic - what do others use?
I like Penny's blanket box idea - I have a railway trunk I found in a skip, but again it welcomes stuff on top which makes one reluctant to try to open it. More groovy (if you like that sort of thing) than practical.
BTW - one of our charity shops makes small amounts by selling otherwise unsaleable rags by weight to rag merchants. It's this knowledge which stops my recycle pile getting totally out of hand.
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Sorry to double post - but I have a sewing question I'd like your (pl) help with.
I have to make flysheets for two tents. I have an existing one in both cases to use as a pattern - in one case a slightly complicated set of panels on a two-hoop-tunnel idea, and in the other case a simple ridge fly with a 3-section half-hexagon at each end.
I only usually do gash sewing - what sort of seams and hems should I go for (if you give me a name I can look them up) and how much does that add to the size of panel one needs to cut, compared to the made-up pattern?
Is there a special name for the bias binding (?) which seems to be used here and there on the existing ones to stiffen them up, and for loops for elastic etc?
Both will be in nylon of some description.
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Brenda Clough
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I think everything depends upon your nylon fabric. Is the cut edge going to unravel? If so, either enclose the raw edges in binding, or use an enclosed seam.
I forget whether rip-stop nylon actually means that it does not unravel, but just by inspecting a cut edge you could get an idea of how it'll hold up.
If the item is going to get wet or need frequent laundering, you should be sure that any binding is pre-shrunk. You can get very heavy nylon binding, the kind they use on tote bags and luggage.
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Penny S
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I suspect that something like a run and fell seam would be what is used. Plus a length of waterproof tape (tent seam tape) designed for the purpose to close off the needle holes. Or adhesive sealant ditto. Various things show up if you search tent seam sealant. The tape doesn't seem to invisage sealing the whole thing, though.
For a tent I would cut a seam allowance of an inch, which would give a run and fell seam of half an inch wide.
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Most tent seams I have seen are flat felled seams (same thing as a run and fell seam). The fly sheets don't normally have tape sealing the seams, although you could use the tape as part of the seam to strengthen the seam. Usual trick with a new tent and fairly regularly thereafter is to spray it with waterproofing, particularly the seams (outside on a warm dry day).
Peg loops often have reinforcement triangles stitched over the point where they are attached - sewn on tape loops through the rubber / elastic loop. That looks like cotton webbing tape.
Tent poles run through tubes made by an additional strip of fabric sewn along the seams. If they are part of the seam assembly, there must be some additional securing of the seam edges to prevent them catching. Some start up a little bit inside the full depth of the tent / flysheet. Those tubes often have gaps in them, which are hemmed around the edges (really useful to sort out a pole that's being a pain) over the top of the tent.
Are the edges bound or hemmed? (I could get my tent out and look, but it's buried pretty deep in my tin trunk that holds camping, cycling and walking gear.) Bias binding is fabric cut on the bias to allow it to stretch around an edge, but it would be pain to make enough to go around a fly sheet and the stuff you buy tends to be cotton which would be much slower drying than the nylon of the flysheet.
(I should be camping with Guides this weekend, but have another sodding incipient chest infection and my offspring is home, with a hand in a splint and just removed stitches which she can't get wet, to be fed and helped wash.)
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mark_in_manchester
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Great - got it. Wrong sides together, sew, halve seam allowance on one side, fold the longer side over to enclose, sew again.
I guess you have to iron it to stop the folded over bit springing open you try to sew it - or can you just stretch it fore and aft with your hands and rely on the foot to keep it together?
What happens when two seams meet at a corner? I might bodge it up here and end up with a lump (probably forcing the foot up, buggering up the tension, and perhaps involving me hand-sewing with a pair of pliers!)...is there a right way to do it?
[ 31. July 2016, 08:27: Message edited by: mark_in_manchester ]
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I'd mitre at a corner to make it neater, maybe on just the overlapping bit to keep the strength. Not sure you usually have corners on these seams. (I've mostly used flat felled seams on jeans or shirts)
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Penny S
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Pins mean holes, holes mean wet. I would think you can finger and thumb press with your thumbnail a bit at a time, and, as you say, hold it in place as you feed it through the machine. Or perhaps use a fabric glue for tacking.
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Penny S
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I wanted a pair of cotton trousers to replace a pair that had worn out, so went down to John Lewis and found a pattern I liked. Unfortunately, what they had on the roll was two lengths which were too short, so I had to order online, which meant that instead of 2.25 meters, I had to get 3. (I didn't know that until too late in the process.) Blurred Print
So I have a huge amount left over. I'm going to make a waistcoat (vest), and had to go down to JL again to get a lining for it - and I think I'm going to still have leftovers of the cotton, and probably some of the linen as well. Linen The linen I have is a bit redder, called Mulberry. The waistcoat will be reversible. I don't want to end up all matchy matchy. Any ideas?
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