(original post 16 June 2011)
It's finally sort of summer, and so the mind turns to new wardrobe. For me, since I am (a) a lotta woman [fave Terry Pratchett quote- "She was a lot of woman. She was as much woman as you could have in one place without having two women."] and (b) hate and despise polyester, which The Fashion World seems to think that women of size need to wear, means that I sew for myself.
It's finally sort of summer, and so the mind turns to new wardrobe. For me, since I am (a) a lotta woman [fave Terry Pratchett quote- "She was a lot of woman. She was as much woman as you could have in one place without having two women."] and (b) hate and despise polyester, which The Fashion World seems to think that women of size need to wear, means that I sew for myself.
Nothing fancy (unless I'm wandering into historical costuming land); just some simple "feedsack" style dresses like my grandma Pearl wore.
And to go with these, you need aprons! Aprons are fun, functional, and (should be) simple! There are tons of free patterns online! Of course that was too easy...And so I began with the most complicated apron pattern I could find, from Simplicity, here-
http://www.simplicity.com/p-1914-aprons.aspx
http://www.simplicity.com/p-1914-aprons.aspx
and chose the most complicated view ("A"), and chose fabric that really didn't go with the pattern but tickled my fancy for some reason. And I cut it out, and I started sewing - and got it WRONG, and had to frog it, and got it wrong AGAIN, and frogged it, and AGAIN - and threw it in the back of the UFO closet in disgust.
The other day, in anticipation of getting my (now vintage!) Singer Touchtronic 2010 back from the Singer Doctor, I retrieved the apron bits.
And discovered that, being a bad seamstress and not looking closely at the directions for a pattern I'd never made before, I'd been sewing the wrong two pieces together, again and again and again...
And so now it's assembled CORRECTLY, and it's an actual apron, and I will show it as soon as I've finished stitching the 90 miles of bias tape it uses! And I will never ever make that pattern again!!!! (At least until I forget how much I hate sewing bias tape...)
And discovered that, being a bad seamstress and not looking closely at the directions for a pattern I'd never made before, I'd been sewing the wrong two pieces together, again and again and again...
And so now it's assembled CORRECTLY, and it's an actual apron, and I will show it as soon as I've finished stitching the 90 miles of bias tape it uses! And I will never ever make that pattern again!!!! (At least until I forget how much I hate sewing bias tape...)
And while we're waiting for that picture, a glimpse of what happens in my kitchen when "dinner for the Clowder" is a minute or two late...