r/SewingChallenge

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 😁

This sewing challenge couldn’t have come at a better time! I just got my first sewing machine at the beginning of May and finished my first project, a puffin bag! (Pattern is the Fly Away Crossbody Bird Bag by Mad Makes)

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 😁

This is the first time I actually have the energy to sew at the same time as the challenge. 🥳 I'm starting simple, but checking off a few boxes.

I-3 (home and hearth) AND I-5 (give it away): I just made these microwave cozies as a house warming gift. ❤️

N-2 (hip to be square): This one might be obvious, but this pattern is made of squares.

Looking forward to being inspired by other people's creations! ✨️

Starting off easily as I was meaning to get around to this for a while, but just haven't had the motivation to get to work.

These are some little feeding bibs for a volunteer group called the Nest Makers Collective, they make little welcome boxes for families having babies. I haven't sewn for them before but I grabbed some towels and a swaddle/wrap when tidying out a relative's house, planning to upcycle them thusly. They have a tool to put the snaps on, so you are allowed to make bibs without closures.

1+1=1: or rather, equals 6. because the backs are cut from a towel and the fronts are cut from a wrap (a bit marked hence I had to fussy cut and one bib is made of different fabric. One is also pieced. I washed & stripped these materials before cutting by the way, and will wash again before gifting them!)

Give it away: sewn for charity

Off the top of my head: I assume this counts! It's for the baby's neck!