The New Year is Here

Yay, I am back at work - is that a good thing? Unfortunately, I didn't think about anything I wanted to write until I got here, so I have no updates really. Not that a great deal happened I suppose, but there is a lot of back-log too. I am trying to organise my life a little better soon, and this will include writing time, hopefully, which will include blog. I was also going to make a website in the holiday... but that didn't get far yet either. Theoretically this will be for all the sewing stuff in detail, and then here there will just be a note and a picture about the item.

Tomorrow I will hopefully have an update about my polka-dot skirt I made. And about a jacket I intend to make perhaps. Later this week - Christmas, hopefully another item of clothing I will finish, and various other stuffs. Or maybe it will all be back-logged too.
I haven't exactly examined the ClustrMaps map for a while, but there are dots in intriguing places that I need to look up and find out what country they are actually from. Plus, there is a big dot in the USA. Clearly, some person has repeatedly, and no doubt accidentally, looked at my blog in the holidays. How exciting! I will investigate the probable state of origin at a later date, unless they read this and post a comment just telling me?

New Years Resolutions
I don't have any, because I think the focus on resolutions at this time means that they are badly made rather than being considered and then made at the opportune time. However, I enjoyed my holiday lots, and want to try and incorporate some of that enjoyment into the generally miserable time that is the not-holidays. So I may have goals developing. But I probably won't tell you what they are. I have some thoughts on goals prompted by a site I saw today that I may write, and a link to a good article that makes an excellent point. So much writing, so much thinking. :)
(So little working being done here. More work I think for now.)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Polish Jacket, Zupan, The Second Post

Image
I think the last time I posted about this was quite a while ago, but I thought I should do some more actual sewing posts. Pattern Last time I talked about the pattern, but I thought I would add a bit more. Here is the pattern: Here is a bit of a glossary: LEWY - left PRAWY - right PRZÓD - front TYŁ - back KOŁNIERZ - collar RĘKAW - sleeve KIESZEŃ - pocket Isn't Polish beautiful? Unless the person you want to make this pattern for is pretty much the correct proportions, if not the correct size, I think it would be easier to simply make a pattern to their measurements in this shape rather than copying and then modifying the pattern. Unless you have made quite a few men's clothes before, because it is a pain. Front Closure The Polish jackets overlap right-over-left, unlike men's jackets from Western Europe (although in Poland now they will wear it Western style, but I mean at the time, they did it Eastern style). Sleeves and Cuffs The sleeve seems to have t
Read more

Polish Jacket, The First Post

Image
In the weekend before Waitangi Day, I spent a lot of time trying to get the pattern right for a Polish jacket I am making for G, based on those worn in the 17th Century, I think. It is a zupan. Or a kontusz. It is hard to decide as it has elements of both, so it kind of depends on when the pattern was from. But I say it is a zupan - an under jacket rather than an over one, because the sleeves are closed and the neckline high. But many jackets of that type are also labeled kontusz, so who really knows. I had already made the pattern and made and modified the mock-up a couple of times, and I did several more mock-ups and alterations and eventually I think it is mostly right!! If I had started off with the pattern as it is now I would probably have tried to make it better, but I think it is good enough and both of us are sick of it. The problems came that I had to scale up a pattern from a picture on the computer which was not the right size and proportions for Gary anyway. This picture:
Read more

Zupan, Post 3 - Construction

Image
I can't really remember what I wrote in my previous posts, but here goes anyway. I did material, I did the pattern, I talked about the weirdness of it and Polish words.... So today we shall talk about construction or something. In fact, I think I shall change the title. There. So, I can't really remember much about making it that is interesting, but you know that the pattern was a pain to make and that it has a lining. The main part of the garment - minus the sleeves and collar I mean - was sewn separately in outer and lining fabrics to hide the seams. To make things a bit easier, I didn't sew the sleeves on at this stage, because sleeves can be tricky to sew on and might not end up eased and adjusted the same on the outer and inner layers - because I don't notch the sleeves and arm scye because I don't really understand it so I just put the sleeve in and make it work. So I put the inner and outer layers together and first sewed one of the front opening edges toget
Read more