We love it to except for the re-make section. I find it far easier to make garments from scratch rather that altering or re-inventing and some of those challenges are just ridiculous - garments from plastic laundry bags? Please!
A major feature of sewing one's own clothes for me is to be able to afford natural fabrics and not plastic/polyester/acrylics..... Eg, in the 80s OH needed a smart coat for going to work in the City. Lovely Harris tweed coat £300 in the sales in Harrods. Off to Liberty's for Harris tweed fabric and some patterned lining fabric and I made him one for £78.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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My main reason for sewing is to have things that fit properly, in colours that I like when they're not "in". I do quite a lot of alteration for fit - shortening sleeves and legs, narrowing shoulders, adding some waist/hip shaping, that sort of thing, but I agree, the transformation challenge has got silly in recent years. I suppose making fancy dress from old stuff is fair enough (my mum used to do that when we were little) but the plastic bags thing was just daft.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Fit is consideration @JennyJ. Other than female shaped t-shirts and jumpers, shop bought blouses/dresses/trousers etc don't fit me well as I have a full bosom and a well defined waist. Much easier to adjust a pattern and sew from scratch than to fix a bought piece of clothing.
@Hostafan1 - no potting on, pruning/tidying up, feeding and watering???
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Magic, I love Sewing Bee, even if I do wish that they'd do made to measure for people with a wider variety of figure types.
A major feature of sewing one's own clothes for me is to be able to afford natural fabrics and not plastic/polyester/acrylics..... Eg, in the 80s OH needed a smart coat for going to work in the City. Lovely Harris tweed coat £300 in the sales in Harrods. Off to Liberty's for Harris tweed fabric and some patterned lining fabric and I made him one for £78.
@Hostafan1 - no potting on, pruning/tidying up, feeding and watering???
One I'm sure we'll agree upon.
Series 3 , episode 1 of Secrets of the museum .
The most exquisite 18th century embroidered waistcoat .