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For me, this week it is my tiny battery powered had vacuum 🥹 Linen creates so many CRUMBS when trimming and clipping seam allowances, I don’t know if I would have survived without it. In the pic you can see the path across my ironing board where it has eaten all the crumbs.

(All being supervised by Prince Hemsworthy of course - who is usually my favourite… perhaps I need some googly eyes to give this new assistant some personality 🤔)

Lucky me! Starting in a month with a surprising amount of sewing 🎉

I’m about to move house so I had a bunch of projects to bash out before packing away the machine for transit. I’m including substantial repairs and remodelling in my bingo card because once you have re-hemmed 3 sides of a queen-sized bedsheet, you have sewn as much as for a single 😅 To keep things sane, I’m only letting repairs/ remodelling count for one square each, but ✨new✨projects are allowed duplicates as in the regular rules.

Repairs: re-hemming sheets, replacing a worn collar, altering shapeless sleeves for mum and repairing one long cocktail skirt - previously posed over on the sewing sub

New projects:

Moth skirt in a lightweight cotton poplin featuring of green moths and echinacea flowers. Zippered at the back, and with a small side slit, I could NOT decide on a length (there is a pic of my test fitting), so I made the deepest hem known to man 😅 more than 10cm folded double. I’ll test drive it this length for a while before I decide whether to rip out my hand hemming and change it! Technically an invisible zip. Not my finest work 🙈

Linen boat-neck all-in-one-sleeve top with a nifty keyhole back collar detail. I adjusted something at the shoulder and the back was gaping. Instead of running a dart down from the centre back, I drew on a bougie keyhole and finished it with bias - this was my skill level up! The collar is a wide bias too, so lots of hand finishing on keyhole and collar facing. There’s only one little pucker on the keyhole, and it only shows on the inside 🫣

Fresh sleeveless shirt in my wardrobe staple (black). Made to replace the old one which looks exactly the same, but worn out. I’m counting this for my DIY-or-why-not as well because there is one thing that works perfectly every time, and one thing to improve. The first shirt used reclaimed hardware from a Deisel t-shirt I had lived in around 20 years ago. When I remade this version I installed my hook and loop tape backwards so the hooks can grab my hair when I pull it over my head. Next time (this is shirt 4 using this self-drafted pattern), I’ll remember to install it with the hooks facing outward (under the facing). The thing that works perfectly is cutting the centre seam on the selvedge. For fabrics with a stable woven selvedge, the inner seam allowance lays beautifully flat and doesn’t need extra finishing 😇

Guess I’m hoping I can dig the machine back out in time for Halloween to finish that right hand column 😁

I’m about to move house so I had a bunch of projects to bash out before packing away the machine for transit. I’m including substantial repairs and remodelling in my bingo card because once you have re-hemmed 3 sides of a queen-sized bedsheet, you have sewn as much as for a single 😅 To keep things sane, I’m only letting repairs/ remodelling count for one square each, but ✨new✨projects are allowed duplicates as in the regular rules.

Besides re-hemming sheets, replacing a worn collar, altering shapeless sleeves for mum and repairing one long cocktail skirt, I did complete some new garments! a linen boat-neck all-in-one-sleeve top with a nifty keyhole back collar detail (entirely to improve the fit) with lots of hand hemming and finishing; a sleeveless shirt in my wardrobe staple (black); and a zippered skirt with green moths and echinacea flowers.

Guess I’m hoping I can dig the machine back out in time for Halloween to finish that right hand column 😁

(Repost) There is a lot going on in the world right now - Want to push back, show solidarity or simply shout about stuff?!

Patterns for 5 Spicy Hands ✊🤘🖕👉✌️

1. Resist!
2. Rock on!
3. The Bird!
4. The Point
5. Peace!

Got excited about the designs so I’m sharing here before I’ve even finished my own projects with them. Pic 2 has flat-lays and ideas on how you can use spicy hands to support your cause.

I heard some folks like word charts so I included them too for peyote from pic 4 onward. (The patterns are given for 15/0, but note that the samples in pic 1 are 11/0, so there is a difference between the stated size on the pattern and the photo on the front. If you prefer brick stitch that would totally work too.

Free under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0. Feel free to adapt, share, make and profit from your works, but pls include attribution if you copy the pattern.

🖤🤘 (Originally shared 2025)