Sewing Thread!

[Acre4Me]

I have recently purchased a Coverstitch machine that does a top cover stitch (like in athletic wear -the flat seam complex stitch). Haven’t used it yet. <sigh>.

 

[ILoveDaffy]

I have recently purchased a Coverstitch machine that does a top cover stitch (like in athletic wear -the flat seam complex stitch). Haven’t used it yet. <sigh>.

Ooh, please post pictures of the results after you try it. It sounds like a good thing to have around!

 

[Acre4Me]

Ooh, please post pictures of the results after you try it. It sounds like a good thing to have around!

Thanks!

 

[Evadig]

I’m glad to have found this thread! I love sewing but don’t have much time for it. I do mostly 40s/50s clothes for myself, skirts for my sister, and an occasional quilt when I feel up to it.

Here is one of the dresses I finished somewhat recently .

 

[ILoveDaffy]

I’m glad to have found this thread! I love sewing but don’t have much time for it. I do mostly 40s/50s clothes for myself, skirts for my sister, and an occasional quilt when I feel up to it.

Here is one of the dresses I finished somewhat recently .

Beautiful! I'd love to make one for myself. I just haven't found the right fabric yet. Incidentally, does anyone have favorite online fabric shops? I've been trying to find rayon in particular, in a middle of the road price.

 

[Evadig]

Beautiful! I'd love to make one for myself. I just haven't found the right fabric yet. Incidentally, does anyone have favorite online fabric shops? I've been trying to find rayon in particular, in a middle of the road price.

I could never get myself to buy anything online . I have to feel the fabric!

If you're looking for vintage patterns oldpatterns.com has hundreds of them!

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I would love to buy fabric in a store, but getting there is so difficult ( getting through the traffic jam, then finding a parking space) that I order online, also, the stuff I want usually isn’t available in the store when I do get to go

 

[ILoveDaffy]

I could never get myself to buy anything online . I have to feel the fabric!

If you're looking for vintage patterns oldpatterns.com has hundreds of them!

Thank you! I will look!

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Hello! Anyone working on projects for the holidays? I am working on some doll outfits as gifts, and attempting to copy April Cornell's Avonlea dress (twice) , with a few adjustments. A tad complicated without a pattern, but the design is pretty loose and forgiving. Plus, someone gifted me a lot of that exact fabric, and I'd had my eye on this dress for a while. The plan is to make the sleeves full long sleeves and shorten the skirt a tad, for one, and remove the neckline ruffle and replace with a boat neck for the second.

Spoiler: Avonlea dress

https://www.aprilcornell.com/produc...een/?msclkid=5ebf74fd39b113aae71d13c2609dcd33

 

[Sparrows]

Hello! Anyone working on projects for the holidays? I am working on some doll outfits as gifts, and attempting to copy April Cornell's Avonlea dress (twice) , with a few adjustments. A tad complicated without a pattern, but the design is pretty loose and forgiving. Plus, someone gifted me a lot of that exact fabric, and I'd had my eye on this dress for a while. The plan is to make the sleeves full long sleeves and shorten the skirt a tad, for one, and remove the neckline ruffle and replace with a boat neck for the second.

Spoiler: Avonlea dress

https://www.aprilcornell.com/produc...een/?msclkid=5ebf74fd39b113aae71d13c2609dcd33

It's pretty! I wish you luck! I love sewing dresses!