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That sounds like it’ll be the best dressing gown in the world ever!
bomberqueen17
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oh my god that is the exact garment i want and i am such an indifferent seamstress I know I will never make it. Literally exactly that garment. *dies*
It’s been in the works for a very long time. Like, I’ve been dreaming about it for years, and have owned the wool for two years probably, and am only now getting my act together. Olive and purple tartan wool exterior, lined with purple silk, interlined with flannel for extra snuggliness, and trimmed with teal green silk/rayon velvet at the shawl collar, cuffs, and pockets. So lush! (Also even as a bargain shopper this is the most I’ve ever spent on materials for a garment, but it’s going to get so much wear during the winter that it is unquestionably worth it.)
OH MY GODDDDDDDD that sounds so perfect please liveblog the whole thinggggg omgggggg
Also, partly inspired by seeing all your posts, I finally got off my ass to get one of my three not-quite-working-right sewing machines looked at today. I’m about to test it out. Fingers crossed.
(I currently own/possess six sewing machines and a serger. Three sewing machines, including the only one that works properly (except the needle threader! I’ll deal!), are at my sister’s, 300 miles away. I finally found a great local sewing machine repair guy and he promptly got horribly sick. I’ve been hand-sewing things a lot, and I actually did the quilting on all of my yurt ceiling insulation (72″x60″ at a time) by hand-turning the crank on the one antique machine that needs a new drive belt, which was. Well. My arm got real buff. The quilts are sort of shitty. But. Utilitarian. I’ll take it.)
(HOW. THE FUCK. DOES ANYONE. EVER. SEW. ANYTHING. I have clearly digressed, I apologize.)
I want to roll around in that velvet. Ridiculous thing is, I own probably enough wool remnants I could make something like that, and I even own some silk/rayon velvet, and some silk, maybe even enough, though it’s cheap habotai but still… I just don’t have the confidence or ability to follow a pattern or working sewing machine and I feel like it would take very long indeed to hand-sew it.
So I’ll live vicariously through you and maybe work up the ability to try to really make something for once, once I see how goddamn deluxely cozy you look. <3 <3 <3
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bluestockingcouture
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That sounds like it’ll be the best dressing gown in the world ever!
bomberqueen17
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oh my god that is the exact garment i want and i am such an indifferent seamstress I know I will never make it. Literally exactly that garment. *dies*
It’s been in the works for a very long time. Like, I’ve been dreaming about it for years, and have owned the wool for two years probably, and am only now getting my act together. Olive and purple tartan wool exterior, lined with purple silk, interlined with flannel for extra snuggliness, and trimmed with teal green silk/rayon velvet at the shawl collar, cuffs, and pockets. So lush! (Also even as a bargain shopper this is the most I’ve ever spent on materials for a garment, but it’s going to get so much wear during the winter that it is unquestionably worth it.)
OH MY GODDDDDDDD that sounds so perfect please liveblog the whole thinggggg omgggggg
Also, partly inspired by seeing all your posts, I finally got off my ass to get one of my three not-quite-working-right sewing machines looked at today. I’m about to test it out. Fingers crossed.
(I currently own/possess six sewing machines and a serger. Three sewing machines, including the only one that works properly (except the needle threader! I’ll deal!), are at my sister’s, 300 miles away. I finally found a great local sewing machine repair guy and he promptly got horribly sick. I’ve been hand-sewing things a lot, and I actually did the quilting on all of my yurt ceiling insulation (72″x60″ at a time) by hand-turning the crank on the one antique machine that needs a new drive belt, which was. Well. My arm got real buff. The quilts are sort of shitty. But. Utilitarian. I’ll take it.)
(HOW. THE FUCK. DOES ANYONE. EVER. SEW. ANYTHING. I have clearly digressed, I apologize.)
I want to roll around in that velvet. Ridiculous thing is, I own probably enough wool remnants I could make something like that, and I even own some silk/rayon velvet, and some silk, maybe even enough, though it’s cheap habotai but still… I just don’t have the confidence or ability to follow a pattern or working sewing machine and I feel like it would take very long indeed to hand-sew it.
So I’ll live vicariously through you and maybe work up the ability to try to really make something for once, once I see how goddamn deluxely cozy you look. <3 <3 <3
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