lemme check my craft budget for the next couple months...

oh I wanna....

Mieka

while I am (fortunately) not as "blessed" as you are I can think of a couple nice uses.  A white shirt with tons of pintucks on the front and a vest in a black on black brocade would look really classy

nice work!

Mieka

that does make things rather challenging....

going from something like this


to something like this


kind of requires someone with a camera to be physically there....

maybe she'll has a friend with a camera?

Mieka

guilt trips don't really work for mine, he was a crusader when we met and it hasn't changed.  Getting him into a doublet required massive bribery.

the sad thing is he Owns a set of bicycling pants.  He just refuses to wear them for anything else.  The difference between those and tights is negligible...  he's just being stubborn.  that and he good at making me feel guilty for asking...

one of these days I'm going to '"forget" to pack his looser pants for a weekend....

Mieka

I usually don't have to fiddly pick paper bits.. but that may be a commentary on my having a huge roll of the paper stabilizer for machine embroidery and Not having an embroidery machine.  It looks like tissue and mostly acts like tissue but it may not Tear like real tissue.  For newsprint it's always been sew, fold excess over the stitching fold back and tear (mostly cleanly) away.

mileage clearly varies... and I have no answer for the very real concern of looser stitches... but given how fast folks change their fashion minds most of my coserty winds up in the back of the closet before it wears out, and the exceptions are all cotton and used under recreational clothing..

Mieka

I've done the tissue, too.  I just hate sitting there picking teensy bits of it out of ever stitch.  And I worry it might make the stitches a bit less tight than they would be otherwise, which is already a concern since I use a long stitch.

having done the hate-on of PVC.. tissue paper or newsprint in strips just wide enough to cover feed dogs and presser foot...

and for the contrast channel for a busk if it was big enough (read wide enough) it might be a place to put a tiny row of embroidery or even a bit of appliqué... but I'm stupid ambitious that way...

Mieka 

mmm greeennn...

uh yeah.. that works.. actually works really well.

and for kitchen=craft room for my husband and I between us HOUSE=craft room

Mieka

If you can get your hubby into tights please let me know How.. I keep trying with mine (soccer player legs) and he keeps refusing... 



my hubby in his surcoat with a good friends child playing at "swoords"

a good set of hosen would look so good under his surcoats... *sigh*

Mieka

if sewing with white fabric be sure you wipe down the machine in all areas. the fabric WILL find any grease/ oil  dust balls whatevers that are near.

corollary to that.. if you don't care if your piece gets stained the stain will wash out.  If you Want the piece stained Nothing will stick (rolling in the grass with your twin nephews and thiner new puppy leaves you with a few smudges that wash out without help) and if you Don't want it stained walking within ten feet of something will stain it (i.e. walking across the lawn will leave green marks on the elbows of your new white shirt and you didn't trip and fall or get your sleeves Near the grass)

Mieka

the picture is no longer there so i can't be of any help

Mieka