So it's official. I am a bit of a break from my main little handmade business. I am taking some time of for myself and my family and to find out what creative styles work for me and scream IZZY B at me! So the months of June and July will entail me trying out new things, experimenting, learning new sewing techniques so when I come back in August I hopefully have some new skills that mean I can try new styles that I no longer fear.
Fear 1 to overcome: Zips! Zips, zippers whatever you call them have been on my list of sewing phobias and would have to be number 1. I generally make children's clothing and don't like using zips as kids have a tendency in my house to be pretty rough on their clothing. I like items that are easy to pull on/pull off as a child is running away from me whilst being dressed! I am sure there are plenty of other parents like that around here too;) My youngest seems to have ants in her pants all the time at the moment and just won't keep still when getting dressed. She likes to dress herself if at all possible so elastic and pull over the head items seem to be the best. But one of my other goals is to make more items for me and all the ladies patterns I have seen lately seem to have zips. I bought a new skirt pattern that looks really cool, so I am going to road test it and share the before and after on my little old blog.
Hopefully my instruction following skills will be better than my recipe following skills (teehee). I always read my patterns and recipes multiple times before I start to make items but this doesn't remove the muck up factor for the first few times...
I am also planning on creating a ladies skirt for my part of the Collaborate for A Cause submission and it really will need a zip. So why not make myself a few test run items first.
I will show you my novice attempts at inserting a zip. Share any tips I have along the way.
My lovely mother in law turned up to our house yesterday with a bag of zips for me to practice with. That will hopefully help.
That's it from me now, but I will be popping back in a few days hopefully to start the project xxx
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