I finished another copy (copy? what do you call another rendition of basically the same thing?) of the knit skirt, in a nicer knit. It's dark gray; the previous one, which I'm wearing again, is light gray. I'm new to sewing knits, and realized (after the hem of the first one "popped" when I got into the car) that I needed a stretchier stitch. I used the "lightning" stitch on my Viking Rose, which I think is a stretch stitch, though I'm not quite positive because I couldn't immediately find the manual. I'll use the same stitch to re-do the hem on the first one.
Next I'll make a dark-green skirt. Then a black skirt. That will more than fill the "skirts" requirement for my SWAP.
Have I blogged any detail for my SWAP? (SWAP: Sewing With A Plan, an 11-piece sewing challenge managed at Artisan's Square.) I'm calling it the Maybe I'll Do It This Time SWAP, because I keep planning SWAPs and never finish them. The theme here is to have clothes that replace jeans.
I have two variants, one more ambitious and one less, both listed below. The ones in bold are done. I'll probably re-post statuses and fabric choices.
- Grey knit skirt from McCall's 6654, view E--a long columnar knit skirt.
- Mossy green knit skirt, same pattern.
- Black knit skirt, same pattern.
- Silk/linen blend indigo blue jacket, made between 11/5 and 12/26, and therefore qualifying as an "early bird" garment.
- Another raglan jacket.
- A short cape.
- A drop-sleeve straight-hem woven shirt.
- And another one.
- And another one
- And the same again.
- And yet again.
And now the less ambitious, again with the completed items in bold.
- An existing self-sewn gored skirt in a washable black and white "denim".
- My existing long straight knit dark brown wool boucle purchased skirt.
- The grey knit skirt from above.
- The "wearable muslin" grey knit skirt.
- The green knit skirt from above.
- The brown jacket from above.
- The silk/linen jacket from above.
- Another raglan jacket
- A drop-sleeve straight-hem woven shirt.
- And another one.
- And another one.
Neither of them are very exciting. I have vague ambition of adding a little excitement to the remaining jackets. We'll see.
Um.
That is all.
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