Show your (craft)work

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wendy james
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Four dresses hemmed. :perky:

The rainbow thread I’m using is dead handy, and the girls opted for a reverse cover stitch on their dresses which really shows it off.
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Lovely!
It’s like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.
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Pretty!
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This is the stab stitch one. It was interesting to do but of limited value as you can't really open it. :lol:
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Is it something you can change next time?

There are all done bar some minor things like fastenings or closing elastic casing.

The skirt and culottes were started last year then parked when it got cooler. :lol:
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I bought the dress fabric in person on NYE, which was so nice for a change! I love the pattern.
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It might be better done from the top rather than the side and if the stitches were set not as far in.

I like that fabric. I wish I could make clothes, or at least alter them to fit properly. I've got so many things that would look nicer if they were just a bit shorter or more fitted.
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You're a dressmaking machine, wendy!

Bean, I love your books. Did you go on a course or are you self taught?
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Just lots of you tube videos, Lazz. I would like to go on a proper book binding course. There is one in Edinburgh and I would like to do it when lockdown is over.
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Wow! You must have quite a talent for it, YouTube videos always outfox me. I remember trying to learn crochet from them and it was utterly impossible. :))

I want to do a calligraphy course after lockdown.
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I mean I only show you the stuff that turns out ok...
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:lol: Don't we all?

Shoe, how goes the jumper? I bought that designer's bobble hat pattern and will start on that soon.
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Calligraphy sounds fabulous lazzi. :yes:

I made a pair of leggings for myself, which isn’t very interesting (they’re just grey denim-look) but could come in useful.

I’ve also fiddled with a couple of dresses that weren’t very flattering by making one a tunic (so can be worn over leggings) and adding some elastic to the other so it no longer hangs from the end of my boobs but from underneath them. :lol: Neither will be my favourite but they’re slightly more wearable now.
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I saw the hat pattern, it looks lovely!

I have, a very short, sleeve happening! And additional length.
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And tiny bits of yarn all over my carpet. :look:
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I’ve finished the cowl I wanted to make for my Mum’s birthday in a fortnight, I’m pretty happy with it and it was nice to make a fast knit after eternities of huge blankets - it just needs a tiny bit of blocking to square it up. The pattern didn’t say what bind-off should be used so after googling last night I tried the Icelandic for the first time, I quite like it.

It’s a lovely yarn and I bought two other colourways. The pinky/brown one was an alternative for my mum in case I didn’t like the colours of the first attempt, but since I love the first one for my mum’s colouring I might use the second colour and make the same thing for a friend who has a birthday mid-May and who it will suit. The greeny one was for me. I might make the same thing a third time, or I might buy more of this now I know how it knits up and make a poncho or something instead.
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That's lovely - what yarn and pattern is it? It looks like Freedom Spirit, and I have some of that somewhere. I have dozens of cowls - I find them really useful, and somehow less easy to lose than scarves.

Shoe, that is really effective. I would never have guessed that it would work so well. Crocheted things are so much nicer than they used to be - at one time they all seemed to be like the wrong kind of lace :)). I wish I could do it, but my hands won't stop trying to knit with the hook.
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It's Rico Creative Design Melange Chunky. The greeny colourway is called Cinnamon-Azur, I can't remember offhand what the other two are called. I'll refresh my memory.
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https://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/yarn/ri ... ll-colours

I think the colour I've used was 054 Grey-Pink and the other one I bought was 052 Terra Mix.

This is the pattern
https://www.deramores.com/products/cowl ... nge-chunky
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Loving that jumper, Shoe! Is a cowl like a neckwarmer? The colourway is lovely, H1ppy.
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