I’d just like to say that I’m not someone that wins competitions, EVER!
Back in May, the Sewing Directory and Minerva Craft launched a blogger challenge, where you could win some of the new season fabric if you submitted an interesting blog idea. I have been planning to clone my favourite jeans for some time, and inspired by the new banana republic mad men collection I spotted this fabric over at Minerva Crafts
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Here’s my submitted entry-
And guess what! I won the fabric… seriously, I never win stuff.
I was pretty excited to get started but sadly my 3 jobs have somewhat slowed down my progress. Once the fabric arrived, I diligently chucked into the washer and dryer to make sure my new trousers wouldn’t shrink.
After washing the fabric and taking a rubbish shot of myself, I made a plan..
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I’m going to posting some stop motion video on how to use a tracing wheel to make a pattern from a garment without taking it apart. It’s pretty simple to do, but there a couple of basic rules, so i’ll outine them in Post 2.
First up, You’ll need some tools-
A couple of tracing wheels,( including a double ended one for adding seamn allowance), some pins with coloured heads, a cardboard surface to pin your original garment to, pattern paper and paper scissors, a ruler, a pencil, a tape measure , tailors chalk and a pair of jeans to copy
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Ok, i’ll be sharing the first video on how to “rub off’ the pattern in my next blog post, this will be a series of blogs over the next couple of weeks, so there’s an opportunity to share everything.
Happy Stitching, Claire-Louise :)
