Announcing...
Posted on Sep. 4, 2007 at 6:53 PM
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I am pleased to announce that my and I are opening two other blogs. The first is here on HSB called Sewing With Two Sisters. The second is on Homesteadblogger and is called Cooking With Two Sisters. Please bear in mind that they are still under construction, so if they look a little strange... you know why! :)
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I finished! I FINISHED!!!
Posted on Dec. 8, 2006 at 3:39 PM
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I finally finished my Edwardian apron! I am so excited! All I have to do is iron it. I plan to post a picture of it. It is very pretty. My sister Bethany has one just like it. She still needs to hem hers. We plan to embroider our names or initials around the neck.
One of my next projects is to be an Edwardian dress - I hope! They are really pretty and I hope to make one by Christmas. We got the patterns from Sense and Sensibility Patterns
My machine is fixed. Mom was able to fix it. I hope it stays fixed!
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Aprons, Sergers and Sewing Machines
Posted on Oct. 31, 2006 at 5:14 PM
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For the last several months I have been working on an Edwardian apron. It is very simple and the only reason it is taking so long is because I have not been consistently working on it.
Well one night last week I was sewing with Bethany. I had to serge the edges so I went to use our newest machine. I like the newest one the best. Well I was working on it and before I was half way through it unthreaded! I did not know how to fix it so I moved to the other machine. I finished and left it.
A few minutes later Bethany went on the old machine and what did she do but unthread it! That was it for our sewing that night. The next day Mom had us use machine manuals and try and thread the machines. We tried all afternoon and part of the next day. On the next day Mom figured out that we were not threading through the tension disks. Threading it properly fixed the machines, but not all my problems…
A day or two later I was sewing and guess what’s wrong now? My sewing machine gets getting the thread caught under the presser foot plates! We are afraid it may need servicing. Mom says I may have damaged something. It’s not that old of a machine - not even a year old yet. I hope we can easily fix it, because I would like to get sewing on some dresses soon.
Well I just thought I might share one of my adventures - you never know what you’ll encounter on an every day basis. I have adventures all the time, though I don’t view them that way often enough.
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Dressmaking…
Posted on Jun. 30, 2006 at 1:40 PM
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I am learning to be a dressmaker. I am working on a beautiful dress for my youngest sister. It has a lot of lace trimming and has an overskirt. I hope it turns out well. I will get to learn how to put in a collar, put in sleeves, line a collar with fusible webbing, put in lace and how to gather fabric on a large scale. I have sewn a few articles of clothing before. I made myself a pair of pants when I was about 11 and I have made a few old-fashioned doll dresses for my doll named Georgiana (named for Georgiana Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.) The doll dresses are made from the patterns sold on a website called
Sense and Sensibility. There are time period dresses for children and ladies on that website as well. I hope to make several of those for myself when I am more experienced!
I am not sure what color fabric my sister’s dress will be but I think I want it to be yellow, pink or blue. Probably blue because that color brings out her beautiful blue eyes so well.
When I am done I plan to post a picture of the dress.
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On the Embroidery Road
Posted on Jun. 17, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Right now I am learning to embroider. I can already cross-stitch quite well and I have wanted to know how to embroider for a very long time. My Mom taught my sister Bethany and I a few simple stitches yesterday and had us practice them on pieces of cloth she cut for us.
Today she had us each pick a stitch we had learned and embroider an initial on a pair of bloomers that we had made. Mine was for my 5 year old sister and I embroidered her initial on the bloomers, but I made a mistake: I embroidered it on the wrong side! It was supposed to be on the front and instead I did it on the back! As it is not a very complicated piece of work I will be able to pull it out and start over without much trouble. I was a little disappointed at first that I made the mistake, but after all I can really just regard it as practice and the more I practice the better I’ll get! If I do it over I’ll be able to try and do it better than I did it the first time. 
I plan to learn a lot more stitches. My Mom has a bunch of information on embroidery and as I love to read and learn from books and articles, I think I will have a lot of fun learning. Maybe I will post some pictures of the things I make on my blog here. 
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