Another Fairy for the Pattern
Another fairy. I think I want two more, and then I’ll try to add them to the snowdrops to make a pattern…
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Another fairy. I think I want two more, and then I’ll try to add them to the snowdrops to make a pattern…
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Sewed up a few chiffon scarves in my snowdrop pattern — I think they’d look really nice and springy with a crisp white top. Picked the very last snowdrop in the garden for the first photo, and a summer snowflake (leucojum, which looks a lot like snowdrops) for the second. Even though it’s called summer
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Sewed a quick scrunchie to match the snowdrop top out of the leftover scraps. Waste not, want not. Scrunchie instructions here: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/sew-your-own-hair…
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I forgot to mention, I tried it on before I sewed up the side seams, and it was definitely way too big. I cut it down to a 12/14 (adjusting in various places), periodically trying it on and holding it together at the sides, trying to make sure I was leaving enough seam allowance. I
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I thought I’d made a dire mistake at this point — I was a little careless and when I was sewing the bias tape to the neckline, I didn’t match right sides together, so I had to rip it out and re-do. And the cotton lawn is really quite delicate — somehow when I was
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Next step — make your own bias tape. I have done plenty of that for mask-sewing, before I wised up and bought some ready-made bias tape, but even though I had some on hand, I thought I might as well go ahead and go old-school, making my bias tape from the fabric. (That does require
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The next bit called for serging, but I don’t have a serger. Luckily, they gave an alternative approach using French seams, which I’m pretty sure I’ve never done before. Easy and neat — I like them a lot. It’s funny how it’s hard not to assume they’re going to be good just because they’re French
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Next bit was adding some darts at the bust, so it would be a little better fitted. I had to go to YouTube for a reminder of how to transfer the bust lines from the pattern to the fabric, because I haven’t done this in a long, long time (decades?), but five minutes, a ruler,
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So, I wasn’t sure what to do with this fabric — it’s one of my designs, but I thought maybe the print was in the wrong size to look good as a dress or top. I was wondering if I should’ve printed it in smaller-scale. But oh well, I had a yard of it on
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Drawing snowdrop fairies while watching Gilmore Girls with Kavi, who was also drawing…nice way to spend a Friday evening.