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  Make Your Own Style by Necessity- No pattern This is my style.  Roomy and comfortable.   I have written about my auto-immune disease, which needs large sleeves and comfortable clothes.  No exposure to sun, but cool and comfortable. This outfit was a large shawl that someone at work gave to me when they came back from traveling.  I loved the colors, but I would never wear a shawl, so I made a top out of it.  Of course, because it was a shawl, there was not enough fabric to make a traditional blouse, but I could with a little extra fabric inserted.  This is how I made it.  Folded over part that was enough for almost a front and back and cut a boat neck on the top fold.  I needed to add to the sides and the left over rectangles to make baggy arms and wide enough for my hips.   I found some hunter green chiffon or georgette and just doubled over a strip big enough to add a couple of inches to both the rectangles for the sleeves a...

 ..Leggings - One Piece-cut 2- Tubins- Topstitch Pockets etc.. Regular pants-4 pieces 2 fronts and 2 backs and 4 piece pockets So many choices...plain pants.... leggings/tubins 1.  quick and easy 1 piece to lay on fabric folded over This is the type of pattern for the pants I wear in my total outfits with the free flowing jackets at work most days.  They look like leggings, but they are what I call tubins...I make the top of the pants like leggins, comfortable and fitted with the elastic waists. The curve in the front is smaller than the curve in the back. One piece is your right leg and one piece is your left leg. Make that curve the same as your curve.   Measure your curve with a string or your measuring tape, from crotch to waist and then lay it on your pattern piece so they are the same. This is how they are shaped... one pattern piece... using 1 + yard of fabric 54-60 wide folded over... stretchy like scuba No, I don't have a cutting table.  I use...

  This is my sewing space... I don't have a room so this is my living space also.  This is the view when I wake up.  Mom is 101, so I am in her cellar..(corner).. Don't ever think you can't do what you want to do.   See that cat picture up there.  My younger cousin..maybe 8 years younger was born without the use of his arms or legs.  He got a degree and a masters and he paints with his mouth to support himself.  I wake up every morning and look at the picture and 'Say-"I can do it!" '  I have a lot of challenges.  But.. Nothing like his.... Nothing compared to some of the Inspirational Books that I keep around with major challenges like my cousin.  I have complete use of my limbs...some are painful now, but hey, I can work, I can think..not as quick as I used to be. I loved this room. It came with a shower and no furniture, filthy rugs. I rented it after I had a bankruptcy, and and foreclosure.  Looks happy doesn't it...Thank G...

  Bear Hunting Hat and Old Car Hat and Camo Personal Hat By the way, I have no idea what I am doing....I made a cover for the hats and then did whatever.   Combo Sewing and Gluing. I started to sew on the inside of the caps to finish them but I worried that the edge would feel uncomfortable, so I got some permanent fabric glue to glue the inside edges with some topstitching. I am adding a Moose to the camo Hunting Hat Not perfect but good enough for hunting or hanging on a display hatrack These were all a learning experience I put too thick a stabilizer in the bucket. Maybe a grandchild will get it.  I would need to make it bigger and less stabilizer as I wanted to make it reversible. I need to do the finishing touches so I can go back to finishing the tummy time sloths minky throw.

  I have a number of old sewing machines that have embroidery stitches.  They were new in 1996. I learned everything by doing. Get out your manual and a look at what needle they tell you to use for embroidery stitching.  Get the kind of thread they tell you to use.  Thread your machine the way the manual tells you. Be sure to put on the right foot on your machine, because you don't want to hit the sides of your presser foot.  It needs to be the one you use for zigzag sewing, so that there is room for your needle to go back and forth, the hole is a slot not just a round hole.  Not a zipper foot.   Your manual will tell you which to put on. Get a piece of batting, and two pieces of fabric. Practice using all of your stitches. This is how I made these holiday hot pads, or centerpieces, or wall hangings, or door designs for in the center of wreaths, whatever you want to call them. They were really my practice pieces, to learn things to do. I just cut...

 I loved making little things for my kids so much that before I had babys I made sets and took them to work.... and then when I had children and they got bigger I made Gift baskets for Church Bazaars and School Fundraisers.... by then I had started doing other things besides sewing so I combined machine sewing with handsewing and embroidery plus craft projects like fabric photo albums that played music and Stained glass night lights and Suncatchers.  I didn't take a lot of pictures but here are some baskets I did for a fundraiser and really they were more about fun for me than anything else..... well maybe I loved thinking of the babies that would be using these items or the moms that would be smiling as the used these items with their little ones.....  In my usual fevered obsession I spent many nights up into the night making these items....   This Frog gift basket had a little of everything besides the booties hanging on top and the bib peeping through with th...