In December, I'm going to embark with a few other people on a
"sew-along" adventure targeted at beginners. My sewing skills are
limited to sort-of-putting back together fallen buttons and er that's
about it, so this should be an interesting experience!
This is the first post from Gertie about
this,
the person leading the sew along project.
The second one is about getting
fabrics.
Truth is, I am fairly lost right from the first post. There's a lot of
vocabulary I'm missing, other things I plain don't understand and
because I'm not familiar with the field it's difficult for me to
visualise what's supposed to happen, even after reading up on the words
and concepts.
Thankfully Cheryl knows a thing or two about
sewing (all that Lilypad
awesomeness must be good practice!) and didn't freak out when I called
her "Mentor" so she'll be helping :) Already learning a lot from her
post about measures and
fabrics, will do the
measuring thing later on this week.
I ordered the pattern and fabric from
Sewbox
in the UK (not received yet). I may shop around Dublin to find a nicely
coloured fabric for the tie, though I'm not quite sure where to look for
something like that.
The actual sew along adventure begins on December 6th, until then it's
about getting the pattern and fabric. There will likely be impromptu
meetings in Tog to work on this, you're very
welcome to join in if interested! (We can make all sorts of terrible
mistakes together \o/)