Stack of freshly washed fabric that I assume is mostly cotton (no idea on that pink floral, though). Might have to do a burn test.
I had planned (years ago) to see an apron out of the gray and the fine yellow flowers, but looking at them both and the pattern…not anymore.
So for now I’ll be sewing masks, I have some requests from family members and my two aren’t cutting it if I also wear them on walks.
Do you know how to cut a paper pattern so you can reuse it for several sizes? Do you want me to post a pic of how to do that?
Oh, that would be great! I’d love to learn that! I thought essentially tracing it off was the way to do it. 
An easier way sounds delightful.
Finished the side seams and the pockets on my lounge pants. The waist band and elastic are cut and pinned in and I’m going to start sewing them in now. After that it’s just the ankle cuffs! I’m leaving them to last so I can adjust the leg length as-needed. 
Work in progress!
Please don’t quote the photo, I might delete it later.
Looking great!!
That’s a really lovely fabric!
Omg that dress is the stuff of little girl dreams! Love the fabrics.
My grandma used to make me the most EXTRA dresses and would take me fabric shopping so I could pick my colors and trims and it was seriously the best. Literally why I’m in my career. I was the only kid who rocked up to kindergarten in a giant poofy dress with built in crinoline, matching handmade barrettes and handbag. It was the best.
Okay, here she is, my Singer Series 630 Touch & Sew model 630E:
The manual I downloaded is copyright 1965.
Now I have to figure out how the heck to wind my bobbin. I feel like the manual isn’t very good for beginners in that respect, but I may be able to find a video.
She’s gorgeous!
If your manual doesn’t have bobbin winding I bet good 'ol youtube will. Good luck!
Once you look in the manual I can probably help if you can send me manual photos and photos of your machine
I bet you’re right!
I’ll see what I can piece together on my break today!
I think part of the problem is that I’m unfamiliar with the machine and sewing/sewing machine terms in the first place. The manual may be perfectly reasonable, but I probably have difficulties following the directions because I can’t visualize it.
Yeah it can be really confusing, especially since what you’re doing (winding the bobbin) is functionally the same, but how you do it differs from machine to machine because the manufacturers were always trying to do something new and different
but why
Right? One thing I love about industrials is that all of them work in generally the same way. And that I can wind my next bobbin while sewing so that I never have to stop to do it.
…I just have to not be lazy enough to set it up so that it works while I’m working 
Thanks for the kind words!
This is one of the cheap fabrics I bought to learn how to sew clothes (3€ for 1m and they gave me one more meter for free!!) and I love the colour (slightly different from the photo, I can’t take a photo with the right colour) and softness but it is sooo hard to sew. It is very stretchy and the edges roll a lot 
Ooh nice!
If the rolling is getting to you you can run a little zigzag stitch around the edges of the pattern pieces to help them lie flat. It can be a lifesaver on those kinds of fabrics
I didn’t know, thanks for the tip!
It would have been useful when I did the sleeves, I will keep this in mind.
This is such a lovely story 
