Altering your Bodice/Torso Block – see also Blocks for Larger Torsos, Rub-offs Shirts, Cathy’s Sunshirts, Creating Sleeves from a Shirt or Bodice Pattern, Sleeve Alterations
American Duchess Cape – pattern rework
Chemo Hats – see also Child’s Tasseled Chemo Hat, Erika’s Chemo Hat, Eared Chemo Hat, Triangular Chemo Scarf, Women’s Chemo Scarf with Scrunchie
Child’s Tasseled Chemo Hat
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Creating Sleeves from a Shirt or Bodice Pattern
Crotch Master from a Rub-Off
Crotch Master, Part 1
Elastic-Waist Pants, Laying out, Cutting, and Sewing
Elastic-Waist Pants, the Pattern
Fashion Sketching and Illustration
Jeans: Zippers, Knees, Pockets
Mittens – see also Pine Ridge, Dyeing
- Debbie’s Duck
- Connie Willis’ St. Paul’s tea cozy
- Dress forms
- Boxes of Labels
- Test Booties
- Civil War theater dresses from thrift-store sheet sets
- Faced pincushion
- Caleb/my calliope
- Cowl/dickies from felted sweaters’ sleeves
- Making a generic bag for a sewing machine’s pedal control
- Colorwork Vest
- Entrelac Möbius Cowls
- Fried Egg Lid Holder
- Hard-boiled Cubical Eggs
- Passementarie on trumpet skirt
- Trapunto Placemats
- Press Bed Cover
- Toe Chimneys
Other Useful Stuff
Personal, Miscellaneous
Pants – see also Crotch Master Part 1, Crotch Master Part 2, Crotch Master Part 3, Elastic Waist Pants’ Pattern, Elastic-WaistPants Laying Out Cutting Sewing, Crotch Master from a Rub Off, Using your Pants Block, Jeans Zippers Knees Pockets, Pants Additional Alterations and Repairs, Reverse-Engineering a Pattern from a Garment
Pants, Additional: Alterations and Repairs
Reverse-Engineering a Pattern from a Garment
- Blocks/Slopers/Moulages/Toiles/Muslins
- Pattern management
- Adding machine tape to space buttonholes
- Gathering Fabric
- Containing stuffing or pellets in a toy
- Cast-ons, avoiding knitting the tail
- Casting on large numbers of stitches and joining without twisting
- Blanks for Sweaters, Socks, etc.
- Baseball Stitch
- How to cut with scissors/shears
- Curved hems
- Turning a tube
- Felting
- Checking yarn for fiber content
- Buttons, backing with snaps
- Buttons, choosing
- Knitting/Purling backwards
- French Knots
- Non-Slip/Anti-Skid Surfaces
- Pressing/Ironing, to remove wrinkles
- Hangers
- Recommended books
- Understitching
- Contoured Waistbands (two methods)
- A Dedicated Sharps Container
- Pin-Tracking/Truing/Reconciling Seam Lines
- Making a Curved Bag to Heat in the Microwave
- Cutting Spiral Strips from a T-Shirt
- Hook and Eye Tape
- Rotary Cutters
- Scissors/Shears
- Tagging gun
- Yarn caddy/spindles
- Pattern-making: drapery weight and physicians’ exam table paper
- Clover Seam Ripper
- ChiaoGoo knitting needles and crochet hooks
- Needle boards (pressing aid)
- Markers (in knitting)
- PVC Niddy Noddy
- Point-Turner from a chopstick
- Ergonomic Sewing Machine Setup
- Double-ended Crochet Hooks
- Glue
- Friction hook for Portuguese knitting (add the one Irene sent)
- Sewing Machine Feet
- Marking on dark fabric
- Waxing thread
- Leather Punch
- Thimbles
- Adding Twist (or plying strands) Without a Wheel
- Embroidery Needles
- Thread Lubricant
- Tissue, flimsy, for stabilizing thin/slippery fabrics
- Exam Table Paper
- Scissors, maintenance
Using your Pants Block
Wedding Dresses, Gowns, Formal Clothing