One thing to remember when making a garment with voluminous material - you have to iron it once washed! So avoid heavy cotton and use a crease resistant material. Believe me, if it’s a pain to iron, you won’t wear it very often. Good ideas & tips in this video!

@bluejay6969

11 ай бұрын

Hand held steamers are the go to for me when it comes to skirts or other items of clothing that need creases removed. And i have found if you hang the skirts up on a skirt hanger, this will minimise the creases so much more than if you were to just hang them on the clothes line.

@RJ.the.artist

4 ай бұрын

Actually, I would want something that I don’t have to iron ever.

To sharpen scissors: fold a good size piece of aluminum foil into quarters (4 layers) and cut into the foil several times. If they're not sharp enough, cut into the foil until they are the necessary sharpness. I hope this helps.

@sarahl2481

Жыл бұрын

that work for knives too?

@charlottecolley6966

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahl2481 no, sorry, if you don't have a whetstone you can use the bottom of a pottery cup that has a whetstone-like finish (rough, unlike the rest of the cup). Does that help? Best to get a whetstone for your knives.

@sarahl2481

Жыл бұрын

@@charlottecolley6966 wonderful, thanks ☺

As a current watcher who just stumbled across this video, the growth in your confidence and experience as a sewist is so cool to see! I honestly had no idea that sewing garments was something you started only a few years ago. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and journey!

Oh how the fabric stash has grown!!!

@danaevans5849

3 ай бұрын

I was just thinking the exact same thing ❤

AWESOME !!! I made a circle skirt for the last year in high school but I didn't finish it in time so a got my mum who was a seamstress to finish it for me ;) Great pieces at the end ;) don't forget you added a .5 instead of .4 on the waist of the 1st skirt maybe that was what went wrong ? ;) Thanks for sharing ;D

I thought I would have space here to leave my sewing machine out because it's such a faff setting it up and putting it away, but then I thought the same about my craft stuff, my parchment stuff, my art stuff... And then my orchids sort of took over and now there's only space for them and nothing else gets done because there is nowhere to do it and getting it all out and setting it up is such a faff... By the way, I totally adore your dog!

I can totally relate to not finding long, nice skirts, thats the main reason i got into sewing, so i could make my own. It will be interesting to see how you aproch the sewing.

I love that 'that day' has come now that you bought a house and just closed!! Thanks for the awesome videos and congratulations on your new house and upcoming sewing room!

I so love your attitude towards sewing. I have sewn since i was 7 but always used patterns. I have just entered the world of upcycling and i find i love the freedom of the randomness of it. Im in Canada and now addicted to your site. I love the puppy interludes as well.

These are so pretty!

3:05 give it a good couple of washes and runs in the dryer on settings you plan to launder the garment in the future, this generally softens microfiber up nicely. I know bc most of my sheets are made of microfiber bc its one of the least expensive options out there for bedsheets

I'm at the beginning!!

Love this skirt. Your doggy is so adorable! Thanks for all your videos.

I am glad I found your channel. Thank you for including so much detail and explanation. Also, Rachel is a good channel to watch.

Your dog is so pretty! And I absolutely loved your mug!!!

This is so fun! I also have a bunch of table cloths and curtains that I bought for everything from crappy old material for mock ups and really cute sheets and lots that will make lovely skirts!

Nice video, like the skirts.

For shirt projects i use hugely oversized shirts i find at my local church’s yard sale… they let me fill grocery plastic bags of clothes for a dollar a bag lol and those church ladies who donate their clothes to this always are made of super nice super cute fabrics lol also, if your worried about messing up with your favorite fabric, make a mock-up using a cheaper or thrifted fabric of same weight/hand/stretch to test your ideas on lol the great thing is when your done and it turned out good you have a bonus garment lol

Love both makes❤❤❤❤ thanks for sharing your journey. I think I'm ready to try making mine. Deep deep breath.

Actually... Doggo IS being incredibly helpful. They're helping you test if this fabric is going to be constantly covered in dog hair! I have a (now partial) black sheet in my stash that is tagged "CAT HAIR!" to remind me that it's useless for anything where keeping looking moderately tidy, won't be possible.

15:32 AAAAAAAAAND you just inspired me on how im going to make this beautiful circle skirt i bought off the clearance rack for $5.80 thats now too big for me but i couldn’t figure out how to take waist in without ruining the swoosh of that gorgeous curved hemline lol THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH!!!

Actually your measurements were correct, but what you have to remember with things like radii, is when you started marking out 12.5” instead of 12.4” (I think that was your waist number), this is where you changed the circumference and added several inches to your waist. I recently saw a video in Russian by Ручки не крючки where she showed that you can expand the waistline significantly if you move the waist a mere 1 cm down, which is like ½”… Circle skirts are cool like that!

I like the white with blue (Jacobean???) fabric and the end result zipper circle skirt. I've watched the cutting out three times and have not had the lightbulb go on yet. I really like the different lengths of the finished skirt. I will watch a couple more times and if need be I'll test my theory out on some thrifted fabric. I've bought a few (no not really a few but a lot of) sheets, duvet covers etc to make some rag rugs. Great vid. ty

Ah, where it all began :)

Sewing is kind of satisfying.

Circle skirts are nice

Here's an easier way to get your waist radius for four layers of fabric. This only works for a full circle skirt. Take your waist measurement plus the two inches and divide by 6.28.

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25:13 so question: how overlapping of the circle part did you end up with? Just curious lol

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9:49 frugal tip: open and close scissors a bunch of times on crumpled aluminum foil, preferably the heavy duty kind, like your trying to cut the foil lol it actually SAFELY sharpens your scissors (this is from someone with limited Funds AND highly accident-prone)

10:15 I buy the metal bobbins in bulk the wind a bunch of colors for the mending kits i keep in a bunch of different places like all my friends house bc my friends and family always need something fixed or hemmed lol

I'm guessing next up is a skirt with some embroidery on it?

@gettheetothestitchery

2 жыл бұрын

It's like you read my mind!

19:10 Ive walked into some stores where i loved the style of the clothes but were so expensive (one of the shirts they wanted almost a hundred dollars for but the fabric the used was chintzy and when i inspected the seams they were unfinished and the stitches did NOT look like they were sturdy enough for you to wear the garment more than once) believe me even the expensive clothes have imperfections lol

***I LOVE GOODWILL BINS!!!!!*** the closest one is 30 minutes from me so I stay home. As if I need more fabric. I have worked at a fabric store twice… total of over 4 years. I have way too much (mostly cheap) fabric.

I've been wanting to try to make a circle skirt, but I want to try doing like a petticoat tie instead of elastic waistband. Elastic scares me for some reason, lol!

@doublet5247

2 жыл бұрын

Also I really love the asymmetric of the oval skirt!

@gettheetothestitchery

2 жыл бұрын

Oo a petticoat tie is a great way to get around more conventional (and scary) closures!

A better formula for your waist is to add 1" to your measurement for zipper seam allowance, then divide that by 2pi (6.18). So a 32" waist would have a radius of 5 1/3"

I love your side-bars. Zippers. I am 66 years old and have been sewing since I was 5. Zippers since 10. And I still am not their best friend. Ya, let's put it that way. They are not that hard. But they are hard to do perfectly. Inevitably, one side will slip up or down and now the top of you blouse is now uneven. Or the stitching line is too close or too far away from the zipper itself. Not my besties.

Get a zipper foot! It moves the stitching to the side so you can stitch close to the zipper.

How did you make the waistband for the purple skirt (near the end of the video)?

@gettheetothestitchery

11 ай бұрын

It was just a straight strip of fabric, folded in half with a strip of felt in between to stiffen it a bit. Then I stitched it on to the skirt waistline, one side sewn right side to right side, and then other side top stitched down!

@Katie-oj6fo

11 ай бұрын

@@gettheetothestitchery Thank you!

6:49 Just as long as it doesn’t have a perpetual gas smell cuz then theres a serious problem lol

This is absolutely gorgeous and I am first (except for the annoying bot)

Can’t find circle skirts cuz they take more yardage and that costs more. Price is ultra important in design currently.

I wish menswear was as simple as sewing a skirt... *sighs heavily*

@rusted_ursa

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Maybe we should head off to Scotland and just wear kilts. /joke

@gettheetothestitchery

2 жыл бұрын

Good lord, me too.... even just making myself a pair of pants is freaking me out!

@CopenhagenDreaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@gettheetothestitchery I made a summer project of making a light linen shirt. Still not finished, because I'm afraid of sleeves!!!

And put in some pockets