Megy and machine

For my graduation I wanted to be a bit different.  First question was should I make a dress or a suit?  I've always seen my self in a dress on this day, but a month before I decided to make a suit. Not any suit. I wanted a three-piece suit. Only place to go next was Pinterest.  This is a link to my Pinterest graduation collection:  https://www.pinterest.com/megymili/graduation/ Now that I have some idea what I wanted next step was to find a pattern.  Pattern for the jacket was not a problem. I knew what I wanted for a while and that was pattern from Burda 3/2011 no.120.  Vest was the hardest thing to find. Not so many magazines that I own have a vest in tham. I found a pattern in Burda 3/97 no.109B. In that same Burda there where pants too no.107A.               Because am using Burda magazine pattern needs to be traced on a tracing paper and than cut out of fabric. There is a lot of pieces. And I cut all of tham out first...

Burda is my favorite sewing magazine. I get most of my patterns from it.  Let me show you how I get my patterns from Burda.  I will be showing how I got the pattern for my Blue velvet dress.  https://sewingtoperfection.blogspot.com/2022/02/little-blue-velvet-dress.html For this tutorial I will be using this 11/2016 Burda style. 11 is for the month and 2016 is the year in which this came out. Every Burda has two parts. One is magazine, where you can see how the outfit looks on a model. There are also some articles, tips and tricks related to sewing. Second part is patterns and instructions od how to make a garment. You can take this part out and store it, if you don't want to keep the magazine. ( That is awesome idea. Having a lot of magazines is just taking space in storage.) Let us look in that second part. On page number 3 you will find some tips and information about sewing in general. We are looking for page 4. On that page every desing that is in this Burda is repres...

  This was a fun little 30 min beginner project. List of things that would be needed:  - Nice fabric. I had some leftover cotton fabrics.  - Interlining. And that is it. 1. Cut interlining in a shape of a circle. I used a plate as a reference, but you can draw it with what you want. We are going to need two circles. 2. Put interlining on your fabric. You are going to need 4 pieces of fabric. If you are making basket in two colors (like I did), interlining goes on one of the pieces from each color. Size of the rectangles doesn't really matter, it is importante that interlining fits on it. Rest of the fabric will be cut of. Important note when working with interlining:   This interlining is the one that needs to be irond on. Be cerful with the way you do that. Always put some other fabric over the interlining when you iron so that it doesn't stick to the iron.  3.  Now we sew.  We need to sew all around interlining.  Don't forget to leave little op...

We are done!!!! Finally am done with a coat.  So many things to say about this coat. One, I look like blue Sherlock Holmes, or Fleur Delacour from Harry Potter. Two, it is so comfy.                     Let's start from the top of the coat and make our way down.  Hood and cape can be removed ( 3 bottons). After cape was finished I realized something. When I put the hood up there is a bit of fabric that bulks up right under the hood from the outside. That means that there is to much fabric and when cape was cut I didn't cut nice wide half circle, but some like oval shape. How about we go to the collar. Wool is really thick there. No mistakes were made there, but you can feel how much fabric is in that collar. And I did cut some of. Buttons, pockets and sleeves look and feel nice. They where easy to make this time. For a change I didn't struggle with buttons.  This tip helped me a lot.  Here is link to this site for...

Assembling Next step in making a coat is to put all the pieces together. I look a this part like a bit puzzle.  Step 1. Put interlining on the parts thet need it.  Let's use this as an example. In magazines like Burda there is step by step guide on how to make a garment. In that guide there is always a picture on how to cut the fabric (red squere). When making a coat, or any garment that requires interlining, on that picture will be shown (dark grey) parts on which interlining goes.  Most of the time interlining goes in both front parts and collar. Some other parts if necessary.  Interlining goes on parts that need some structure.  Step 2.  Sewing long seames I always start with front part and than any other long seame (red lines). My preffered method is to start sewing from top to bottom. If I make a mistake it will show on the bottom. One part will be longer, that means you have to go back and try to put it together again. Step 3.  Co...