Clearly I’m into the scarves. They are one of my favorite accessories, and lucky for me, they’re really easy to sew.
This one is brought to you courtesy of a toddler scarf I saw on Pinterest. Step aside, toddlers. I claim this ingenious little number for myself. I’ll even one-up you, and add a button on the other side, so now it’s reversible. I do love reversible things. Two scarves in one. This was crazy easy to make, and crazy cheap with the fleece found in the remnant bins. It’s also super fun to wear. Being the tactile person that I am, soft fleece feels amazing against the skin, and feels amazing to randomly stop and pet (yeah, I do that.) Also being the usually freezing person that I am, a warm fleece scarf is even better. Bonus points that it kind of mimics the look of a tie, which is fun.
Those buttons were too big for my button foot, though. What is one to do when that happens? You search online, find a helpful post, and then test your own button-hole function on scrap fabric to see how you manually move the lever on your machine to make a button hole of any size. Then you make your mark on the fabric where you want your hole to go, the same size as the diameter of your button + 1/8″, use an open toe foot so you can see as much as possible, and off you go. Watch in awe as the machine does your bidding.
I must now immerse myself in the world of fleece and make more of these to suit a variety of color palettes. I also feel like there’s branch ideas brewing somewhere with this.
On another note, I got my Not Your Grandma’s Sewing Guide yesterday and went through the majority of it the same afternoon. I was giggling at bits through it, but it’s really not worth $27. To be brutally honest, it’s in need of a good final edit. Misspellings on just about every other page.
What’s good about it is that it focuses mainly on making garments. The last bit of the book is all walk-throughs of patterns and general how-to on constructing different types of garments (shirts, dresses, skirts, pants, etc.) There are no specific projects. If you have some random fabric, and your brain is like “I want to make a shirt out of it and I don’t really care what that shirt looks like,” then I think this book might work for you, although it doesn’t give any real patterns; just small illustrations throughout.
I’m mildly disappointed by it. I don’t feel any more empowered to attempt a shirt than I did before. I guess at some point I just have to dive in and make a mess and try not to expect anything earth-shattering.
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