T4Textiles

jerkin it. And by jerkin. Lerts just say. A sleeveless jacket or coat

Finally finished the leaf waistcoat video!! It is 58 minutes.

The final pattern will be released for free. All you get in return for testing is early access, a fun group sew-along, and the opportunity to improve the fit of the final pattern for people like you :)

The final pattern will be released for free. All you get in return for testing is early access, a fun group sew-along, and the opportunity to improve the fit of the final pattern for people like you :)

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The Allotment Series, 4 pieces, Penelope Williams (2024)

Mushroom Musician by Jennifires

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

Happy year of the horse!!!! Have my wild horses sweater finally released from the void!

Has everyone seen my wonderful chicken? Now you have.

You can also start off sewing and pattern drafting and embroidering and then your vintage sewing machine is acting up so you snag another one for super cheap while that one's being fixed, and then that one also needs fixing and you had a bad and expensive experience with the repairman so you look up youtube videos on how to do it yourself, and then a friend of a relative is decluttering and gives you an antique treadle which mostly just needs a lot of cleaning, and then you find 2 more vintage cast iron machines for dirt cheap at a garage sale and hey how hard could it be to replace a rotten wooden case?