Gift_in_Edge wrote:Aw! Too cute! Sewing machines make being crafty a little bit easier.
I don't know about easier. Learning to use one properly is still very much an ongoing thing for me! Sewing is complicated on or off a machine, but definitely they make the things you make look 100% better! I love my Janome/New Home to bits!!! I'm going to do this. Make a sweatshirt or sweater of some sort soon. I haven't managed anything with sleeves though yet for the dolls. I look at patterns but they don't make all that much sense to me.
The doll skirt pattern I tried to use for my corset skirt was just baffling. It was unnecessarily complicated. I totally threw it away in the end. I'm actually doing better just measuring, kind of figuring things out how things work, then making my own simpler patterns from tracing paper.
I really like the convenience of the machine stitching and it's worlds neater than my hand sewing ever was of course, but all the stuff you're "supposed" to do to sew things sometimes it just plain confuses me. I figured out how to add a button placket on my own and I think I've kind of got the idea of how sleeves work I just haven't gotten brave enough to attempt any as yet.
Sweaters seem like a nice, easy place to start...
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:59 pm
