Alright...admit it. You all are just as fucking lazy as I am when it comes to dots and notches too, aren't you? AREN'T YOU?!
I swear, if this vest didn't have to be so tailored, I wouldn't care. But noooo, it has darts and welts and shit I gotta line up. At least the lining is the same cut as the shell, I find that Simplicity (gag) is better about that than McCall's at least. Ugh, commercial patterns...
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/Image036-2.jpg)
However, since the fabric is so thick, I'm cheating and not using interfacing. :mrgreen:
wow. I didn't understand a word of that.
Dots: Self explanatory as to what they are. Lol. You put a dot on the fabric where it will meet another piece of fabric with corresponding dots. Though I tend to draw little x's. Same diff though.
Notch: See those random triangular points on the fabric in the pic about? That's a notch. You use that to line up a side seam correctly.
Dart: One pleat in the fabric used to give the garment shape.
Welt: A pocket flap with no pocket.
Lining: Self explanatory, the satiny (usually) fabric inside of a garment.
Shell: The outer fabric of a garment.
Yeah I never really bothered with those notches and things before, but now I do and they are a bitch!! The darts though I always mark them with tracing paper because I assume they need to be where the pattern says they go. I used tailor tacks a few times but I find that the tracing paper works better.
And interfacing :x :x I HATES it. Shit's expensive, so in all my muslin constructions I never use it. If I it really needs extra weight I just sew some white scrap fabric to it like sew on interfacing.
Welt pockets???!! post plenty of pics please, I have not done one of those in a long time. I may just make one along with you so we can bitch about it together.
So is this the commission we are looking at here?
This is one that I'm doing now. It's a Dark Knight Joker vest for a friend I'm seeing in NYC for ComicCon this weekend. Green twill suiting and blue satin backing. I'll post completed pics in the Thread-Jack.
Yeah, I normally don't bother with notches at all, dots for darts though, I guess I kinda gotta. :argh!:
Oh Goddamnit, here's another waste of time: Staystitching.
Yep but I'd staystitch all day rather than ease stitch anything.
Lol. Troof. Staystitching is just a run, easestitch is a run, a pull, a yank, a swear, pin, and stitch again. :argh!:
I never use the notches and dots... hell, I rarely use the patterns for anything beyond a "Oh, they shaped their pieces like that, eh?". Thus far, things have continued to come together just fine.
Also, agreed on the ease stitch and I'll throw gathering in there for a bonus.
Depends on the gathering, imo. I typically turn them into knife pleats.
i don't have any of that nifty colored wax paper and the wheel with teeth so i mark all my dots n darts n pleats with damn pins. (apparently you can use soap and other things but i'm also very lazy)
notches i do love however. i hate cutting them out, but even when i make my own patterns i'll put them in so shit will line up.
it's a pain initially but it pays off in the end
SINGLE vs. DOUBLE NOTCHES! Meeeeeeh. And those damned pinholes/dots. My mom taught me a trick where you put the head of the pin through, pull off the tissue pattern, and then put the rest of the pin in as you would normally. They still don't line up all that well. :|
And can I just say: fuck the zipper foot? (makes me feel better to say that)
I don't really know what's up with the double notch thing. When I cut them I just cut the double ones bigger than the others.
I always forget to use my zipper foot. :oops:
I love my zipper foot. I can't live without it. Or my buttonhole function.
needle goes whare? :?
im taking a beginning sewing class next week :D
YAY! FERD WILL BE ONE OF US!
ferd will be a mockery of one of you :cry:
Suu's machine has a built in buttholer?
i don't know how to use mine.
It's just a function I set, but it automatically goes on the edges in order as long as I switch it in the correct order. Not bad for a cheap ass household Singer.
Edge 1: Right side of buttonhole facing you, forward over the dogs.
Edge 2: Bottom of the buttonhole. Right to left on the dogs.
Edge 3: Left side, BACKWARDS on the dogs.
Edge 4: Top, left to right. DONE!
My buttholes always end up weird. :| I sucketh at those. The thing I hate about the damned zipper foot is it gets in the way of me being able to see! It's probably just my suckass machine.
Which I need to have serviced. I got it for my 17th birthday, and let's see, that makes it 18 1/2 years old, and I've never once serviced it. Bad Jenne is bad.
If the zipper foot is getting in the way of what you need to see, you're looking on the wrong side. LOL. They should be smaller in comparison to an all-purpose foot, it's possible on your older machine that the one you have is either archaic, or just wrong.
Archaic...it's older than some posters on this board, I think. *blush* But it's because it obscures the stitches. OR maybe I'm switching it to the wrong side. It can go both ways, the way the feet switch out.
I dunno. Been a while. But I know I struggle to keep the zipper WITHIN the damned seam because of the fucking foot.
Quote from: Jenne on February 07, 2009, 05:31:33 AM
Archaic...it's older than some posters on this board, I think. *blush* But it's because it obscures the stitches. OR maybe I'm switching it to the wrong side. It can go both ways, the way the feet switch out.
I dunno. Been a while. But I know I struggle to keep the zipper WITHIN the damned seam because of the fucking foot.
18 and 1/2 makes it almost
exactly as old as me.
i picked up that pendant with the antique scissors on it today.
it was cheap.
i had to.
i've been sewing again lately.
thanks to YOU guys.
(see how i made that sound like a bad thing there)
i made some chest suspenders.
i'll post pics later when i can.
Oh this is GREAT! Squid and Ferd!! I can't wait to see what you guys will be sewing. Post pics of those chest suspenders!! (please)
Here's the chest suspenders.
Kinda dark, but you get the idea.
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/chestpenders.jpg)
I look real amused too.
NIFTY!
Quote from: Squid-diddle on February 09, 2009, 05:27:11 AM
Here's the chest suspenders.
Kinda dark, but you get the idea.
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/chestpenders.jpg)
I look real amused too.
OMG FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP!
Yesssssssss! :fap: Those will look nice with the goggles, I bet.
so far i've only sewed new buttons on a jacket cause the old ones set off the alarms in stores :lol:
i feel accomplished
YAY! You've taken your first step into a larger world. :mrgreen:
...a world of broken needles, tangled thread and bloodied fingertips...
Quote from: LMNO on February 09, 2009, 08:37:49 PM
...a world of broken needles, tangled thread and bloodied fingertips...
You learn to get over that fast.
...says the machine-hurling seamstress...
IF I HAD A REAL FUCKING MACHINE INSTEAD OF A TINY HOUSEHOLD SINGER THIS SHIT WOULDN'T HAPPEN ! :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
If you can find a 70's vintage Singer, White, Kenmore, or other common American brand for cheap at a garage sale/thrift store/Craigslist, odds are great that you can take it to a service center and get it purring like a kitten for under $100. Parts for those brands are inexpensive and easy to come by, and they're cheaper to have tuned up.
OH MY FUCKING GOD!! I JUST SNAPPED A NEEDLE IN MAH MACHINE AND IT SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!!!
:omg:
I hate putting in zippers! I had it set to stop with the needle down and I must have shifted the fabric, bent the needle and then tried to sew cause FUUUUUUUUUUCK, it broke. :cry: I have a few more, but shit this is kinda scary, I still have not found the tip that broke off.
I hate when that happens!
Doing zippers is not so bad if you have a good zipper foot. You might want to go to a sewing center and compare your zipper foot with others there.
Quote from: Sanguine Penguin on February 11, 2009, 10:17:07 AM
OH MY FUCKING GOD!! I JUST SNAPPED A NEEDLE IN MAH MACHINE AND IT SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!!!
:omg:
I hate putting in zippers! I had it set to stop with the needle down and I must have shifted the fabric, bent the needle and then tried to sew cause FUUUUUUUUUUCK, it broke. :cry: I have a few more, but shit this is kinda scary, I still have not found the tip that broke off.
Check the bobbin casing. Yank the guts out and put it all back in.
my beginner sewing class is tomorrow :x
im afraid of the machine
I have a few good zipper feet but I still hates them. (the zippers I mean.) My teacher love the zipper foot it's self. She recommended using it all the time. I find it comes in handy when you are doing under stitching, or anything where you have to get really close to an edge.
I don't know if the needle hit a zipper tooth, or if I bent it and it snapped on the feed dog plate thing. My bobbin was conveniently empty at the time of the breakage as well. I think it was a set up to be honest.
There is no need to be afraid of the machine, I have been sewing for years and this it the first time this has happened.
GUISE GUISE I SURVIVED CLASS!!!!
i made a neon orange pillow case and stitched fun turquoise leaf thingers on it lolz
and i didnt stitch my fingers!!!!! :fap:
Quote from: Ham Fondling Skeet Twizzler!!! on February 13, 2009, 01:56:35 AM
GUISE GUISE I SURVIVED CLASS!!!!
i made a neon orange pillow case and stitched fun turquoise leaf thingers on it lolz
and i didnt stitch my fingers!!!!! :fap:
GOOD JOB!!!
See? That wasn't so bad, was it?
however she confused the shit outta me when trying to explain notches in patterns and anything to do with patterns actually :? :? :?
you'll get it soon enough.
i wanna see this pillow case
well its just an orange rectangle
but the machine makes madjikkhal stitches!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/holy_garber/Photo16.jpg)
CUTE!
That is a wonderful first project! The stitching looks great too. You'll get the pattern thing soon enough like Squid said. Just keep at it :wink:
Was that an auto-stitch function on the machine? :fap:
They have the Project: Runway Brother machine at Wal-Mart refurb'd for less than $200. SOOOO TEMPTED.
Good job there Fred!
Quote from: Suu on February 13, 2009, 02:59:05 PM
Was that an auto-stitch function on the machine? :fap:
They have the Project: Runway Brother machine at Wal-Mart refurb'd for less than $200. SOOOO TEMPTED.
PFFFT YEAH it was auto stitch if i tried that myself i would look like i had a seizure on the sewing machine :D
that thing had so many fun stitch patterns i want one :fap: but it was $500 :(
Quote from: Suu on February 13, 2009, 02:59:05 PM
Was that an auto-stitch function on the machine? :fap:
They have the Project: Runway Brother machine at Wal-Mart refurb'd for less than $200. SOOOO TEMPTED.
:eek: :eek: :eek:
:sheep: (we need a drooling smiley)
UUUUUUUUUUUber tempted.
So my boyfriend and I went and bought some new clothes the other day. He has a fitting problem though. He is a power lifter and his thighs are bigger than his waist. So when he tried on some cargo shorts in his size the waist fit but they were WAY too tight in the legs. His fix was to buy the shorts in a bigger size. This works with a belt, but the waist is all bunchy and shit.
I want to know if anyone has tips on taking in waistlines. I'll do some research on my own, but I thought I would ask here too. I have a few pairs of pants I can try it on first so I don't jack up his new shorts. I'm pretty unsure about this cause I have never really done alterations. :sad:
Update: I have found a link that seems helpful http://www.ehow.com/how_2268200_take-in-pants.html I'll try this.
Waistlines SUCK.
Indeed they do.
BAHAHAAAHAHAHA i was cleaning out my closet and found this weird dress i made when i was 13
its black and orange floral and pleated with lace trim and silver buttons goin up the front :lulz:
i prob shoulda taken a pic before it went to the dumpster :sad:
why cant i make stuff anymoar :?