ILX Sewing!

Elastic. It's based on the buttoncounter.com pattern. I figure on wearing it to Trader Joe's later today, to see if I should add a metal nose piece.

i still didn't do it but i will tonight or tomorrow. i'm having extreme laziness problems. i am going to try to see if there's any wire in the basement, or will break off the ends of file prongs i have for work. i also have a seltzer can that i exploded by leaving it in the freezer, which i could make into strips and fold.

My mask was okay as-is for the hour or so it took me to get into Trader Joe and come home. I don't go out very much, so it should be acceptable for when I do go out.

On another forum someone suggested using a plastic-over-metal produce bag tie, or an unbent paper clip, to make a nose piece. Any thoughts on these ideas?

i was thinking paperclips might be too inflexible, produce bag tie might be ok

i am not doing any nose pieces.
I feel like things I have seen about fit for home made masks, the only thing that really makes a difference is double sided tape.

how do you use double-sided tape in it? is it in the pattern you linked above?

oh no, it's for masks that don't fit properly (and you work in a medical setting), people use double sided tape to ensure a seal.

the thing about the blue shop towels (being able to filter out a lot more than cotton) is very interesting but it looks like those have kind of sold out everywhere anyway.

i am obsessed with quilt patterns

is quilting the new knitting

it's the old and new knitting. I am trying to figure out how to make a certain pattern without needing to paper piece fuck that bs.

it is my new knitting because i'm not getting a lot of knitting done. i am going to try a quilt soon and there are so many options for a first quilt that are not beginner-looking at all. i need to just pick one. oh yeah, that time i said i would wait until fall to buy a better sewing machine, i lied. i got myself a present and it's coming friday.

this was the first quilt pattern i did. it was simple enough while being interesting. https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2007/12/29/mollys-sketchbook-a-quilt-for-a-baby-boy/

i started this today https://www.instagram.com/p/B7SCagbnj3T/
have to make 8 squares of strips and i already made 7. i did screw up a couple by putting them in upside down--you are supposed to go toward the printed selvage so you when you trim the squares down they disappear, but i had the colors in the wrong order to do that because i wasn't paying attention (i sewed them in pairs first). i just measured; think there will be enough room to trim it off still and if there is any left it may be within a seam allowance on the next step so it should be fine.

Harbl that is gorgeous!

Anyone still looking for mask nose piece ideas - the recloser strips from bags of coffee work great. Vinyl coated and wide enough plus hold up to bending.

God, I can't wait to get out of my parents house and back to the sewing machine.

That is such a cool quilt, harbl.

Gorgeous quilt! I love Moda fabric.

i finished the top, sort of. i have to rip out the seam between rows 2 and 3 and do it again. i was marathoning and i get lazy when i'm tired. the fabric migrated between the two sides as they were getting heavy. i will do it with walking foot next time.
https://i.imgur.com/LRZ0N7W.jpg

oh and i really underestimated how hard it is to get those angles to line up at the points. i'm glad you can't see it as well in the photo, most of them are a little off.

beautiful!

yeah points are hard to line up. I made a chevron face mask and it was crazy with the center seam and completely still off.

Ooh, lovely!

yes i did start quilting that but i really need to clean off my table so i didn't get very far

i hadn't been sewing much but now i remembered it's fun to finish things. i just finished a little storage box that will hopefully help me get the small things off my table. i started it a month ago but it would have only taken one day. except i try not to finish things in one day because i make mistakes if i work for too long. i am off today so i'm going to jo-ann to buy some interfacing to make some zipper pouches. i bought too much fabric over xmas lol.

nice! I too had a table clutter issue ... which I finally resolved by moving the clutter onto another surface. I have this cutting machine that I got with a groupon several years back, and I need to configure it with the laptop I bought last year ... the plan is to use it to cut out shapes which will become embroidery patterns for sweatshirts -- like a fire extinguisher and a traffic cone. That is the plan ... lol

yeah table clutter is the worst thing in this room. Table I do everything on is the main surface in this cluttered room so gathers more and more stuff accumulates unless I watch it.
So it takes me ages at times to get down to a point where i can get a garment started.
I woiuld probably hve doe a lot more last year if it wasn't for taht.
I did get some good stuff done but could have done more.

So far this year i have done one shirt minus the buttons and am about 1/3 of the way through another. & I'm trying to get one I all but did finished last year but it needs a new collar done and I can't find the pattern at the moment. Not feeling great so hope I'm not about to go down with something.

I want to start quilting again this spring. I moved my sewing machine out of my room when I started teaching remotely, because I needed the space to make a home office. So now it's on the third floor, which is an okay workspace but very cold. Once it warms up, I've got a bunch of quilts I'm somewhere in the middle of - one that just needs its border quilted and a binding, one that's just a quilt top with no border, and one that's halfway through the patchwork stage. My goal for this spring is to finish at least one of them, so I'm posting this here in hopes that I can hold myself to that.

maybe crosspost to knitting thread but i just got a year craftsy premium subscription for $2.49. just need to set a reminder to cancel it before they autobill me a year from now. ime the classes are pretty good. i did a knitting one several years ago and i became a way better knitter.

I got obsessed w knitting in college when I didn't actually know how to knit but thought I would learn, so I have a few books with socks and sweater patterns in them. I could send them to an interested party!

i would but i'm on an embargo from obtaining books and things in general so you will just have to learn to knit :)