Letters from Wetville

I never seem to read anything in sequence for book group anymore.  Wrong book for the wrong meeting, or I have to go home because I was falling asleep because I spent three hundred hours of my l...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2018/07/heartburn-paris-etc.html

"Your word for love is survival.  Everything else is a story that isn't about you." Today is about the novel America is not the Heart.  This book is really good, and it has made me think a l...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2018/06/america-is-not-heart.html

I went away for the weekend and suffered a traumatic incident. It started off quite innocently.  I was at my parents house, and they have properly (wastefully) good water pressure and gas hot ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2018/04/ancient-remedies.html

Trousers should stay up.  Who knows what part of my anatomy will need a sewing intervention next.  It took me far too many years to develop successful interventions on my cleavage (or more spec...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2018/04/trousers-should-stay-up.html

Sometimes future sewing is more gripping than current sewing.  Like today, when I'm up to the collar stage on McCalls 6898 but windowshopping on the net instead. I started with seeing this, Ch...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/09/planning.html

Black never photographs that well, but it's pretty useful otherwise.  I need to wear the jacket a few more times, but at the moment, it clearly needs a narrow shoulder adjustment, and that will...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/06/mccalls-7288-altered-style-arc-barb.html

Sewn, worn and partly photographed.  The glimpse of dress is the Cashmerette Appleton.  It's my second version, and I like it and will make it again. The jacket is McCalls 7288.  It's bett...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/06/glimpses-of-sewing-projects.html

This weekend I managed to sew up some beautiful princess seams on McCalls 7288.  Shame that I sewed them inside out.  So now the inside of the fabric is the outside.  I wasn't redoing those se...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/05/armscye-shapes-love-story.html

I started out the weekend thinking about parabolas.  I've (almost) finished the weekend looking at parabolas with my very patient husband.  According to google, the most common plural form of a...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/05/on-parabolae.html

I've spent at least one entire winter's worth of sewing on jackets or cardigans which still don't work on me after three iterations.  I never want to see McCalls 6844 again in my life, and I'm ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/05/princess-seams-jackets.html

For many years, I thought I would return to playing the violin.  As a teen learning the violin, several adults revealed that they had also played when my age, but had never gone back to it.  I ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/05/sewing-maths-feminism.html

It's a funny thing, blogging.  I didn't mind blogging for the whole world to see, but once my out-in-the-ether-blog collided with my people-I-look-at-many-days world, that's when I got too self ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2017/05/will-i-post-again.html

"For all the days of her life she had reduced the uneasiness of bodies to paper and fabric, and perhaps it had become a habit, and so, out of habit, she tacitly rethought what was out of proporti...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/06/ferrante-on-sewing.html

Brighid & I went out with camera before her swimming lesson today, and took turns playing photographer. Endeavour trousers (Cake Patterns) in green linen from Spotlight Gilli...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/04/beach-photos-gillian-top-endeavour.html

I finished my first Appleton yesterday, and persuaded my daughter to take a picture.  I didn't follow instructions and line the shoulder point up correctly, but otherwise I'm really pleased wi...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/04/blue-merino-appleton.html

There may not be a photograph. I made a muslin of the Blank Slate Novelista pattern out of an old sheet.  I've discussed my learning on shoulders here .  All week I've looked forward to two ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-full-caboodle-shirt-making-wadder.html

I spent many years sorting out full bust adjustments.  I still spend a long time on most patterns making full bust adjustments, but I'd branched out into other fitting challenges.  When sewing ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-shoulders.html

I love these trousers.  I bought them as soon as they came out.  I made a test shorts version and thought they were a little snug.  That's until I realised I had sewn 1.5cm seams when I was s...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/01/endeavour-trousers-by-cake-patterns.html

 After spending weeks on two shirtdresses, these were super speedy and satisfying makes by comparison.  The Myrtle is made from some not very stretchy cheap knit which I didn't know what to do...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/01/speedy-dresses-myrtle-lady-skater.html

This is my second version of the Sewaholic Nicola pattern and I love it.  My first version is here .  This time, there is no bra showing, and I'm really happy with the fit.  I adore the fabri...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2016/01/sewaholic-nicola-in-linen.html

Eight months since I posted last...  I have had the sewing machine in action in that time though, especially lately. Brighid in a Kitschy Coo Mini Penny Pinafore dress.  This is really ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2015/12/spotty-paradise.html

So, I had a go at an FBA for this dress, and it does fit better.  I don't think it is a perfect fit, but I'm not sure that I'm up for more changes and another round at the moment.  I ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2015/04/muse-natalie-dress-2.html

Burda 9755.  Don't make it.  My first experience with Burda and it was appalling.  The instructions were terrible and I ended up making my own up.  The fit in the upper chest isn't fantasti...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2015/04/muse-natalie-dress-burda-9755.html

April, and the first post of 2015.   Hmmmmm. Still, I have been sewing, and hopefully this school holidays I will photograph and post the Muse Patterns Gillian dress, Natalie dress and two Jen...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2015/04/sewing-still-blogging-once-more.html

Gillian Dress by Muse Patterns . I have found sewing nirvana!  I cut a size 40 for the yoke and a size 44 for everywhere else and no other alterations and it fits me!!  !!!!!!! ...

http://lettersfromwetville.blogspot.com/2014/12/gillian-dress-by-muse-patterns.html