spindizzy: Catarina, Sophia and Mary looking happy (Friendship is magic)
I MANAGED TO FIX (MOST OF) THE SEWING MACHINE MAT IN POST! The stitch in the ditch is still an omnishambles, but I've managed to fix what ailed the pockets. Once again, I'm not straight and the lines I cut aren't either.

Red and black quilted sewing machine mat


And my original plan of "Oh just use fold-over elastic to bind it, that's what you've got!" lasted exactly long enough for me to remember that I had a bias-tape maker, so uhhhhhhhh I learned a new skill! I made whatever the equivalent of bias tape is if you just feed jellyrolls through it instead of strips cut on the bias! I've pinned all of the binding on, and now I just need to actually sew it! And uhhhhhh remember that I don't know how to sew the ends together, so I need to learn how to do that first.
spindizzy: Scorpia hugging She-Ra (Love you!)
Soooooooo it turns out that I should have read the instructions for the patterns I'm using before I printed them, not before I started cutting them out. Whoops!

Rewinding: I found a new place that prints sewing patterns for you! It's called Fabulosew and it's half the price that Netprinter was, so: winning! Run off a bunch of patterns that I wanted to work on, everything is great. Check out Cashmerette's sizing calculator before I do, it says I should be a C-cup with a small bust adjustment. ... I beg your fucking pardon. I haven't been a C cup since I was a pre-teen. Go home calculator, you're drunk.

No. What I missed was that if your top half has very different measurements to your bottom half, you're supposed to sister-size to whatever size is closest to your waist/hip measurements. So in Cashmerette sizes a 127cm/50" bust is both a 20G/H, and a 22C/D. And I'm a 26 at the waist and hips. Which means that this G/H size pattern I've run off is TECHNICALLY incorrect, but it's too late! Guess I'm learning how to grade patterns now!

*screams internally*

Things I am actively working on: Read more... )

Things I finished: one of the pairs of underwear I was working on, then realised that the elastic I was using for the last ones I'd also allocated to the bralette that was going wrong, so I didn't have enough. *facepalm* It's fine, I have like half a dozen rolls of elastic, I just need to measure it all out.

Things I am proud of: not melting the interfacing to my iron this time!

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