So I know it probably doesn’t look like I got a ton done this past week based on how few pics I have to post this week… but I did! It just wasn’t on the exact things I wanted to work on LOL
I ended up getting stuck on the Breha vinyl pretty much the whole week. Didn’t start legitimately printing them until late Saturday. So in the meantime I found something else to work on.
Started on my Seven of Nine jacket. Worked out a paper pattern based on the patterns I think I mentioned last week?
After this photo I added in the crossover section and got all of that sewn together so I could try it on. The red parts are still just pinned on though because I need to do the vinyl starfleet symbols on it before I sew it together.
I was going to get the sleeves made and pinned on too so I could check them also, but when I went to get them out of the pattern bag, they weren’t there! Confused, I dug through the whole bag and then realized, the pattern I actually had out was the TNG skant uniform I was doing for Ash’s mom back in 2020. I dug through my pattern storage 3 times trying to find my TNG jumpsuit pattern with the sleeves with no luck. Called mom and — thankfully, she had it. She brought it to me at father’s day yesterday. So I’ll get the sleeves added this week.
I also need to get some small shoulder pads to put in so I can make sure the yoke pattern fits ok with those in it. Right now feeling like it maybe a llttle big.
Saturday morning Chase had an appointment, I was home alone, I had no sleeve pattern to continue the jacket, nothing to do on Breha I was ready to do yet, so I decided to start on my Seven pants.
So earlier last week I had bought a pattern on etsy for a “no crotch seam” pair of yoga pants I intended to modify. Chase printed out all of the pieces for me, I got them taped together Friday night. Then when I went to look at it Saturday for this and determine how the panels went together, I realized it wasn’t going to work. So back to “old reliable” – using my kwik sew bodysuit pattern and cutting it off at the waist to turn it into pants.
I just cut them wider from the hips down to make them look more like pants than tights. Got the piping sewn in the side seam, elastic in the waist, and hemmed at the bottom.
Getting those finished made me feel like I’d really done a lot and that I was now WAY ahead of the game for Seven… even if I was now behind on Breha.
Finally got a usable test for the Breha pattern, although after this we decided to make it a little bigger, so that I hopefully didn’t lose so many of the “berries” at the bottom like I did here on this test.
Saturday night in between a couple more test runs of the Breha pattern, I did get back to work on the dress portion. I decided to go ahead and sew the top and skirt together – got that done, and really hoping I can maybe sew some bias tape over the interior waist seam because this fabric frays like CRAZY. I think the belt would hide the stitch lines. Also got the interior zipper just for the dress portion sewn in and the back seam sewn together. So, the dress is done now except for attaching the cape/sleeve thing, finishing the armhole edges, facing at the neckline and the blue “collar” piece.
Chase was printing a Breha buckle for me yesterday so once that’s done I’m going to work on the belt.
Sunday we finally got to a point where Chase could just start churning out the white designs, so I spent most of the afternoon (After father’s day lunch) weeding.
I’m hoping to get them all finished weeding today and laid out – this photo was missing about 10 more I had on the table – just to see how many more I may need. Hoping I don’t have to buy another roll of vinyl because I bought out my closest target LOL
It was Luna’s “birthday’ saturday. At least, the day we chose as her birthday when we took her to the vet the first time. She got a whole new bag of her favourite temptations treats. (“catnip fever” is her fav. We have tried so many different, fancier, nicer treats and she likes those ok but nothing like she likes the temptations “catnip fever.”)
Father’s Day we had a family lunch with some good food.
And Daddy Bob was there!
Big storms came through last night, but it was nice to sit in my sewing room weeding htv and listening to a podcast while it rained and thundered.
One last thing before I do a to-do list… I have at long last completed my Star Trek TOS rewatach. I started it after watching Strange New Worlds season 1 last year, and I finished it just in time to start Strange New Worlds season ! I am still going through the movies now in order, and I’m currently on The Final Frontier, which I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen. I’d at least seen the previous 4 in bits and pieces on tv before but it’s been forever (with the exception of the Voyage Home which I’ve seen approx. 500 times)
I’m going to be really sad for my nightly Star Trek watch to be over. I’m planning to start Voyager next but there was something comforting about watching the old series that I don’t think I’ll get with Voyager.
Anyway, to-do lists:
Nadja:
-Finish sash
(that’s it, I did the other little things. I tried to get the sash positioned but I need it on me and i need to keep taking it off and on so I need to recruit Chase to sit in my sewing room and help me for 20 minutes one night.)
Breha:
-Make belt
-Enclose waist seam on the inside?
-Finishing weeding designs/iron on designs
-Sew cape and lining together
-Sew to bodice
-finish armholes
-sew in bodice facing
-make blue collar section
-paint belt buckle
-practice hair
Rebels Leia:
-finish belt
-paint accessories
-attach accessories
-figure out hair
Seven of Nine:
too much still to add everything here so this week focusing on:
-testing and ironing on HTV to red panels
-getting sleeves cut and added to check fit
The End for this week, thanks for coming to my tedtalk