The Master Plan (or, how to sew in 7 ‘easy’ steps…)

I’ve finally got round to writing up my Master Plan of how I’m going to learn to sew, and here it is: Take up linen work trousers – practice hemming and hand-sewing (backstitch). Sew silk cuff from Sew It Up book. Make a shift from cotton lawn, using a combination of Marquise.de’s instructions and those [...]

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Silk Cuff – Finished!

I have just finished making the cuff!  Huzzah! Sorry the photos are a bit blurred – I didn’t realise until I put them on my computer. The buttonholes look pretty neat, considering their my first non-practice ones, though I did have a bit of a nightmare with the dupion fraying almost as soon as I [...]

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Silk Cuff Progress, Fiction & a Visitor

Just a quick post with a pic of my cuff progress: As you can see, I’ve done allthe Suffolk puffs.  What you can’t see is that I’ve finished the cuff all nice and neatly and have started the two buttonholes.  The black rectangle at the top is a practice buttonhole on a piece of linen [...]

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Sewing Progress – Silk Cuff & an 18th C Pattern

I should be in bed, but my MP3 player’s charging, so I thought I’d blog in the meantime… Plus, I’m pretty pleased with and excited by my progress – I only worked for a couple of hours (by hand, being very much a beginning at sewing) on it, but I’m a fair way through the [...]

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First Sewing Project – Silk Cuff

This cuff: was a deciding factor in me buying Ruth Singer’s Sew It Up.  It wasn’t the only reason, but it was something that really caught my eye and I just thought “Wow, I love it!”  I’m planning to buy some silk dupion at lunch time.  I’ll also get some cotton lawn (if it’s in stock) [...]

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