Tag: McCall’s
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Yet another purse?
A good friend at work goes for walks with me at lunch hour. Gotta get some fresh air and exercise! she says. Our path quite often takes us through the Mall with all it’s great shops. She is very careful to keep herself between me and the purse store, she jokes, because she thinks I…
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Next? Diving into knits!
Last time I sewed anything with a knit fabric I was in grade 10. (That was a long, long time ago!) It was a heavy 100% polyester knit and it was solid pink! Very cool indeed! I made a t-shirt style top and hipster pants, almost a perfect match for this McCalls 3280. Can you…
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It’s done!! Seriously!!
Well it is Friday night and I am exhausted, but happy! Exhausted because it was a busy work week and happy because I got to wear MY NEW COAT to work all week. It was wonderful, not too hot and not too cold, but juuuust RIGHT! (I sound like Goldilocks and I am not even…
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ACKKK !!
Look at this! I have stared and measured, measured and stared, and finally I have gotten the placement right (and the nerve) to sew my toggle closures on to my pea coat! First one done! Oh… wait! I can’t sew the lining in now. There is no seam allowance to sew it to! Sewing the…
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A man who talks…
Sewing, for me, is quite a long involved process, pulling my sewing machine table and my equipment boxes and my project box out of the closet, setting everything up, hunting down that comfortable chair, fending off two cats, and the family … and all those other interruptions. Then afterwards packing it all up and putting…
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It’s done! Well… Almost!
Perhaps you recall, before Christmas, I was working on my pea coat. Well I am back at it again and really close to finishing! I really like how thick this material is (wool Melton) and with the right needle and thread and some pressing, it’s so easy to sew and the seams lie so flat!…
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My Ambitious Rainbow.
I am now able to get back to my own sewing. The craft fair is done (very happily and successfully). The additional Infinity Scarf orders have been done (Thank you to my customers). I am now on my three week holiday from work (Yippee!). My Christmas presents have been done or purchased, whatever the case…