All of this means I am going to share with you a project that I have been making multiples of for Christmas.
It is the free Heidi pattern from Swoon.
First of all this is a really nice pattern but, I am going to be honest here, like too many Indie patterns that instructions seem to have chosen the hardest to accomplish way to do things rather than the one that will make it easiest for the sewer, the new one in particular.
(An aside on the use of sewer versus sewist. I admit to not being an early adopter of some more appropriate names - gender neutral sure but some adaptions I don't pick up comfortably. Fishers for example versus fishermen or fisherwomen. To me the only fisher is the fisher of men. As for sewist I get it but I am fine with sewer. As an aside my daughter-in-law went to an infrastructure conference in New York a few years ago and they were giving out little buttons (OK shaped like manhole covers) that had NY Sewer on them. She brought one home for me and I wear it on my jacket because both she and I read it differently.)
Now back to the pattern.
I will show pictures and tell you the construction instructions issues I think there are:
I learned to install magnetic snaps, bags are interesting, I like doing something I haven't done before in all my years of garment sewing. Snaps BTW are a snap. |
The recycled leather means some piecing but I think that's just fine. Hardware makes the bags I am discovering |
BTW in recognition of life as I am living it I have started to cut up my gabardine straight skirt stash from my previous more formal work life and am using some of the cottons that caught my eye but, let's face it I will probably not use for shirts. Oh and the leather in the details and straps are leftovers from the jackets I cut up for my man bags, sewn faultessly on this Bernina 740.
Now off to wrap and in case you need a laugh, and who doesn't, here is a piece on mindful wrapping, which I can tell you is not likely to be practiced in this house today.
9 comments:
Mindful wrapping. If only I had a mind left to wrap!
I'm like Annie. What mind!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Barbara.
Donna E
Your clutch purses are very handsome. Lucky recipients.
Vancouver Barbara
So interesting about language. I never could figure out why they were called manhole covers, instead of utility hole covers. Merry Christmas to you and yours. I hope the new pup manages to fit in. Loved the photo of Moose by the way.
Moose is very handsome. Hope all goes smoothly with the Golden adoption. My experiences have been with Goldens who will do almost anything to please humans. Your clutch bags look wonderful! Hope everyone has a great Christmas-
Christmas Eve, wrapping presents and yes that link did give me a laugh. Thank you.
Gillian
I have to say that I welcome "sewist". A while back I thought it was a bit contrived, but then I started supporting the Water and Sewer software for the City, and now all I can think of is 'sewer' charges that are for the yucky water that goes to the treatment plant. Because I had to think 'soo-er all day, it was too much to switch to sew-er in the evening. So I like sewist!
I was recently watching a movie set in the 30's and they had a shot of a staircase with the names of services in the building printed on the risers. One was seamstresser!!! That's a new one for me. I use sewist, I like it better than sewer.
Wishing you and your extended family a Merry Merry.
I have also been looking at Swoon bag patterns. They are sharp and yours look great. But then I read a post she wrote about not using the latest interfacings and foams in her bags and doing things the hard way. I am all about easy and this scared me away. I want my instructions to be simple and easy to understand in a complex bag. I don't have the time to figure out a new way to do it.
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