Hanging on my Skirt tail......lol

 

Measuring tape and ruler

We need brown paper so that we can make our paper pattern, also we will need this ruler

Square a line on the brown patterning paper and use push pins to hold brown paper in place.  With a pencil mark out the arc of the radius.  Measure out the desired length of the skirt out from the waist curve , mark out the arc of skirt hem.



Label the pattern with, name of piece, cutting info, seam allowance (SA) info and grain info Create a waistband pattern by measuring out length of the waistband and add 2" extension for closure overlap.  Measure width of waistband 3/4" finished.  Also add a 3/4" inch SA.

*LABEL BOTH PATTERN PIECES THAT HAVE BEEN CUT OUT....THE SKIRT & WAISTBAND*

 

Sew the side of the skirt together first with a side SA of 1" inch, this is before you join the waistband to the skirt.  You will leave 11" open on the left side seam for the zipper

 

Pin the zipper to the fabric at the 11" seam opening and then bast stitch to hold zipper in place

 

 

 

Another view

Basting stitch

 

I reworked this Zipper 7 times....whoohoo I finally got it!

This is several different shots of how to lay this zipper down......The LAP Zipper

 

 

 

 

This is the waistband that has been marked for attaching the waistband

 

The blue line is the sewing line for the waistband

 

 

 

 This is the finished waistband

 

The hook and eye go on the waistband at the ends.. The open ends must be sewn down before adding the hook and eye

 

 

 

 

Now to hem it up...2" hem line folks

 

Hem the skirt with a cross stitch after basting stitch first..ps.  You may have a few gathers here and there for the hem to work out.

 

This is the finished product....my swing skirt....hahaha!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Masking My Face?

 

Add the foam onto the mask to make the facial features come alive.....   





  

After cutting the mask and adding the foam for facial features, we then add the cheesecloth the mask for the skin on the mask



 

Now after painting our mask with acrylic paint, we then need to spray this Elmer's spray adhesive glue to the inside of the mask so that we can add that soft, cushy felt and then we place the felt that has been cut to the shape of the mask for a perfect fit as seen BELOW......



 

The felt has been added and now it is time to punch some holes in the sides to add the elastic strap on the back........Let's Go!!!!



This is it.....the mask is complete with elastic and now...........LOOK OUT BELOW......







 

Tada............Do have have a set of twins or what....hahahaha!!!.....Whoo....glad that's over....hahaha!!!...This was fun!!















 

 















Blog Post 2.....Snap, Hook and Eye, Hook and Bar, Threading a Sewing Machine, Winding a Bobbin, Straight Stitch, Zig-Zag Stitch and Using an Industrial Iron



Here is the zig zag stitch....pretty easy be sure to back stitch on each end so that it will not unravel.......be sure to zig and not zag...yea..I know that was corny...lol





Straight Stitch down the center of the fabric, be sure to reverse stitch at each end so that it does not come undone.



Threading the bobbin and winding the bobbin by inserting thread through small bobbin hole and hold thread while thread is winding onto the bobbin.....insert the bobbin in the machine to the left ....





place thread on knob and run along the line and knob as shown in the next pic





Now we will thread to the needle so that the bobbin thread and sewing thread make a slip knot




Pull thread through and then thread needle and we are ready to sew a stitch or two.....






This is a snap the top pic is a male and the pic under it is female and they snap together and you pull thread throught the small hole you see I have gone through to attach the "SNAP"....

 

This is the hook and the bar...be sure to thread down the hook by wrapping the thread around that part so that it will stay in place.....

LINGERIE LOOP..........OH NO!!!.............HIDE MY BRA STRAPS.......

You will need 1/4" inch of twill tape and a weebaby snap.....2" inches from the edge of the twill tape is where you will start.........





Place boy snap on the edge of twill tape and on the top of the raw edge so edge is concealed with snap on top of edge to fold and conceal.  Affix twill tape....fold at opposite end of raw edge to enclose....add the female snap sewn under snap...This will go at the shoulder seam of the garmet

  


The final step has arrived..... we can snap them together now.....as seen below...




We can snap it and we will look good without those straps showing....




This is called a "Swing Tack" or better known as: The "Crochet Belt"...........Take a stitch and pull thread through fabric and then take a back stitch and do not pull through all of the way.......You want to leave a loop as seen above....NEXT




Now we pull through the needle by holding loop open as we thread through




This procedure can be found on page 79 of the digest for further instructions...This is a close up of the loop after the initial pull through....pretty cool huh??...






The final outcome of it.......a very awesome crochet belt loop!!!.....yeah!!