Crafty Thread - what are you working on at the moment?

[madzone]

Yeah well, we haven't seen the finished product yet.

Try it just with an old sheet or something, see what happens.

Yeah, I might do that with the one troublesome piece - that's a good idea.

 

[Biddlybee]

argh, his princess line bodice is fucking tricky

 

[wayward bob]

http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/14740/princess-seams-and-other-treacherous-curves/page/all

any help? x

hang on, you didn't used to have to sign up but i'm sure that's the one i used and i found it really good.

 

[Biddlybee]

cheers hon, I finally did it, I just find it a bastard to line up

 

[RubyToogood]

I've pretty much finished the dress I was making, except that I have this idea that I want to put fancy pockets on it. Probably gathered into a band of the contrast fabric I'm using for the collar, possibly slanted. It would help if I could find a picture of something similar but I've drawn a blank really. Any ideas?

Also I quite fancy doing some embroidery on the collar and have bought some Briggs transfers off ebay if anyone knows anything about how to use them.

The dress is very much of this style (the one on the left).

E2A: picture seems to be screwing up: http://ornamentgal.com/joomla/index...category_id=25&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

 

[moose]

Blimey, haven't seen Briggs transfers for ages! As far as I remember you just cut them out with loads of space round the design so you have room to pin it in position, and press briefly with a hot iron, no steam. I'd practice with a tiny corner of a transfer (sometimes they provide a test piece, or the brand name) and a scrap of fabric.

 

[RubyToogood]

Blimey, haven't seen Briggs transfers for ages! As far as I remember you just cut them out with loads of space round the design so you have room to pin it in position, and press briefly with a hot iron, no steam. I'd practice with a tiny corner of a transfer (sometimes they provide a test piece, or the brand name) and a scrap of fabric.

Hm. I should have done the embroidery before making up the dress really in case I bugger it up or it doesn't look right. It's a bit late to be putting an actual transfer onto the collar. I wonder if I can do the "prick & pounce" thing (fnar). Presumably pounce powder washes off. They are actual ancient 30s transfers btw.

 

[moose]

Last time I saw one, it was a commemorative Battle of Britain tray cloth transfer my mum had found in a biscuit tin, and decided to have a crack at in the 70s

Can you not freestyle the embroidery on this one, and use the transfers for something else?

 

[Mogden]

Anyone on Pinterest and can send me an invite or do I just email them and hope for the best?

 

[moose]

Just click the thing on the site. Doesn't take long.

 

[Mogden]

Just click the thing on the site. Doesn't take long.

oh yeah. That's what comes from being a geek. I assume anything that says invite is a special invite for beta testing kinda thing Cheers moose.

 

[ButterPie]

Making a proggy mat, except I don't have a progger so I'm using a blunt pencil.

Hi, by the way

 

[moose]

hello! all butter pies welcome here

What are you using for the fabric?

 

[vauxhallmum]

Proggy mat? Progger? Am I being thick

 

[moose]

No, just Vauxhallish. It's a Northern thing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2008/04/07/wansbeck_matters_feature.shtml

 

[ButterPie]

Using scraps of old clothes mostly, with some felt round the outside. Also doing a hooky mat, but progress is very slow - I might keep them both small and use them to make a cushion of some kind.

I'm an immigrant to the North East (originally from Lancashire) so I should show willing - I learned progging in the bit of old mine next to my house

 

[vauxhallmum]

I've lived here too long and am now vauxhallcentric

 

[RubyToogood]

What are the traditional Vauxhall crafts then?

 

[wayward bob]

for bee

 

[wayward bob]

don't suppose anyone on here gets burdastyle?

 

[Boudicca]

don't suppose anyone on here gets burdastyle?

Do you specifically need the magazine? You probably already know, but the patterns are available on their website.

 

[wayward bob]

yeah ta, it's the printed mag i'm after.

 

[wayward bob]

 

[vauxhallmum]

lots of work

 

[vauxhallmum]

ah, but no picture

 

[vauxhallmum]

one last go.

 

[Callie]

don't suppose anyone on here gets burdastyle?

I have an old copy of it - you want the most recent?

 

[wayward bob]

cheers callie i was hoping someone might subscribe, i may have a mention in a future edition

 

[wayward bob]

i've just checked and i can get polymer plates for £35 delivered

 

[Biddlybee]

Ready to go, or to do at home?