Maybe you should be able to exchange boxes of maybes, I imagine it would be more exciting to finish someone else's maybes than your own ones...:)
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Maybe you should be able to exchange boxes of maybes, I imagine it would be more exciting to finish someone else's maybes than your own ones...:)
Oh wow, that'd be sooo much fun, that kind of exhcange. Totally great idea to finish someone else's maybes. I'd try that out.
We should try one day, when I am back with my sewing machine and all the maybes...?!:)
Hahaha, I'd love that, even just the thought is fun. Yes...all the maybes...😂. I'm working on wool leggings (old sweaters), so those are being taken from maybe to reality.
Nice!!! How do you sew them together though? (because of how stretchy the wool would be)
I was just thinking about cashmere trousers/leggings would be awesome, but my flea-market-cashmere-jumper-collection isnt big enough yet...
I'm basting them together with sewing thread by hand. After that, I'm working on them in the manner of how you would darn sweaters, but with stitching that's, um, hmmm, how to describe...stitches of my own creation in a technique similar to crossing darning, applique, and embroirdery, by hand.
I've sewn for a very long time, started with hand sewing at age two, so I kind of like to do things by hand with things like knits, leather, or whatever is best done by hand that a machine can't do, if that makes sense.
Oh cashmere.....oh yes, nothing like it. It's really hard to find that second hand here. I hope you get enough together at some point because that would be awesome.
yes I guess that makes sense:)
...and I imagine your stitches must be very neat with that long of practice, I am impressed!
Super hard to find here too!! Maybe winter 2025 I'll get to wear the cashmere-leggings😅
A little better description...darning because the initial handwork with wool is a basic darning layout; applique because of reinforcement of an additional layer to add strength and durability to joined areas; embroidery because I'm using some basic embroidery stitches in creating the stitch pattern.
Yes, they are, but that's due to many years of practice, otherwise they would be a mess, like they were in the beginning, along with knitting and many other things. 😂 Making a mess is part of the learning process though.
I wish all the cashmere possible to find it's way to you to become those leggings. I am imagining them now..the warmth, the softness, the lightness...but what patterns I know not until you create them.