Hexagon madness

What starts off as a quick idea, eventually is not. Especially when you don't have enough fabric. All good, sorted.

I love hexagons, however, I'm hardly going to do them by hand.  Unfortunately, there aren't enough hours in a day for this.

More pregnant women discovered at work, so, it just had to be hexagons .... large hexagons, very large hexagons, machine sewn.

Place your pins in at the ends at the angle shown here:

The key to sewing hexagons by machine is to stop short on each of the edges by 1/4". Place your line in at the angle shown here.  Make sure you lock your stitches at the beginning and end of this line, as this will ensure that your sewing won't unravel.

Continue with this method until you finish the entire quilt.

Trust me, it works.

I like the finished quilt top, it beats sewing squares together and is quite effective.

What have you been up to?  I hope your day involved sewing.  I'm excited about what I'm working on next...you'll have to wait until next week!

Sandra

Decades of Style 1940s Claremont Coat (Part 2)

Sewing is the one constant in my life, I've been sewing for longer than I can remember.  Sometimes the simplest of things can give us the most difficulties.

This blog post continues on from my previous post https://sandralovessewing.blogspot.com.au/

This pattern is a beautiful coat to sew.  The pattern is not hard, until you decide to stray from the instructions.  I knew that I wasn't going to hand sew the lining in (as per the instructions), so, one of my challenges was to bag the lining.  However, unlike my previous attempt at this technique, I wanted it to be perfect.  Herein lies the problem, when you strive for some sort of perfection, this in itself can be a blocker.  I never used to be like this, yes, I always have strived for my sewing items to be top quality finish, I think I think about things too much these days.

I overcame my block with bagging the lining, and am happy with the finish.  Then another blocker was thrown in my path.  The buttonholes!  Of course I couldn't finish the buttonholes, the fabric was too thick for the automatic buttonhole to work efficiently.

Then it was suggested to me that I could make a bound buttonhole.  So, I thought about it for a while, did a bit of research, and decided that it would have been better to have planned to do this from the beginning.

Back to the drawing board.  I could:

1. get a business that specialises in button holes to do the button holes for me.
2. hand sew the button holes
3. investigate whether there was an attachment for my machine that would deal with bulky fabric

The third option began to grow legs after investigation on good old Google.

Phone call to my sewing machine centre, and low and behold, I have finally finished my @decades_of_style coat.  Set with vintage buttons:

So, lesson learnt:

1. Plan all aspects of your sewing from the beginning
2. Make sure you've got all the right equipment to do the job

I will make this coat again, it feels very nice on.

Happy sewing everyone, glad I got this one done before the end of winter!

Sandra

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