Make Nine 2024
Jan. 15th, 2024 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brideoffrankensteinHi all,
So I don't normally partake in challenges like make nine and me made may, but I thought I would have a go this year, because I've been sewing for a little while now and I've also just picked up knitting again after, like, over a decade [minus two pairs of socks that I made at random points in the past six years or so].
Current WIPs:
Agnes Vest by Bethany Lynne: This was all but finished last year and just needs its ends weaving in. There are a lot of ends. This is liable to remain on the wip pile for seventeen more years. I was arrogant and naieve.
Hands Cardigan by The Flying Yak: This is on the needles as we speak, but is currently on hold in favour of another wip that has a hard deadline. It also keeps going in the naughty corner because of pattern reasons. I will have to review this when I've finished it because I have Thoughts (tm).
Strata by Jaqueline Cieslack: This is the current deadlined wip. I'm making it for my mum for Mother's day [the march one], and it's my first ever garment in 4ply and will be, when finished, the only time I've ever finished something in 4ply. I've cast on and frogged multiple 4ply projects but none have ever got this far. It's a bit of a trial by fire, but I know that if I'd picked another project that wasn't for my mum I would have no drive to finish it, but as it is I know for a fact that it will not beat me.
Baby quilt for my cousin's daughter: This is a paper pieced project and like all my paper pieced projects I'm designing it on the fly. It was supposed to be for christmas, but then I realised that I didn't have any drive to make my other cousin's children anything, and that felt a bit mean to give something to Elizabeth and nothing to Sid and Lavinia (all fake names). I'm not going to make anything for Sid and Lavinia, because my mum made a lot of stuff for Sid when he was born and his mother [the one of his parents who isn't my cousin] was kinda. what did you do that for. about it. So Elizabeth is getting a quilt for her first birthday instead.
Kaffe Fassett quilt: This needs quilting, but I wanted to try doing that by machine and my machine gave up the ghost and so I had to stop and now my hyperfixation on it has faded. It should be fairly quick though once I get going.
Sleeveless wrap top: This is something I drafted based on a dress I made last year. I finished it 90% of the way and then three things happened: I ran out of thread, I realised I'd missed a part of the seam in a really prominent spot, and my sewing machine broke down. The machine has been serviced now and I've accepted that it's okay to switch to a matching but not identical thread, but I haven't finished it because I'm scared I'll descover so many more issues.
Sleeveless long vest: I made this wrong. I self-drafted the pattern but didn't think through how the facing would attach and I did it wrong. It will be finished the second I unpick and redo the facing, but UGH.
Dinosaur top: This is another self-drafted stalled sewing project. Mainly it's stalled because I hate sewing with the fabric (weirdly stretchy cotton) but it's also stalled because of the aforesaid sewing machine breakdown and because I've changed my mind on what I want from the top now. I made the neck wider than I should have and I gave it trumpet sleeves, which now I'm not super sure about. I think I'm going to make a ruffle from scrap and sew that in at the neckline to make the neck smaller, and trim some of the excess off the sleeves. The process of doing the ruffle is going to be so annoying, but ehn. Actually I just realised I could buy a fuckton of green lace which might look nicer because then I won't have to figure out the directional print.
Future projects that I have all or most of the stuff for:
Forest Keys vest by Teti Lutsak: I'm really looking forward to this. It's another 4ply weight vest, but this time it's for me and it's covered in colourwork. The yarn is looking at me right now, but I have to get the Strata off the needles first.
Palazzo pants by Sasha Starlight: These are cut out of a lovely hot pink viscose, but have been sitting in my drawer since September, not out of any lack of desire to make them but because it got too cold to prioritise summery trousers. I have some issues with this pattern too; I'll review it when I'm done, but the main issue (product photos that misrepresented the fit) has now been fixed, so I'm not as mad as I was.
Materials that I would like to make up into Something but I don't know what yet:
Eight or so balls of the same cotton that I made my Agnes from.
A lot of hot pink cotton that was going to be a summer top and shorts, and was then going to be a wrap top and now who knows
3.5 meters of a yellow and pink Fabric Godmother viscose that I wanted to make into Sew Liberated Chanterelle trousers originally but now am contemplating making into a blouse.
3.5 meters of an entirely different pink viscose that was also intented to be trousers, but god knows.
4 meters of a dinosaur print silk that I'm terrified of cutting into.
One curtain-width of William Morris upholstry fabric I got from a charity destash sale and was going to make into shorts but keep thinking of making into a quilted vest top.
Six or seven meteres of 60" wide red wool that was going to be a Folkwear Travelling Suit but good god, the pattern grading was horrific. The skirt was as long as I am tall, because don't you know that every single fat person is taller than every single skinny person???
Some bright green viscose that was going to be Sasha Starlight trousers but accidentally got sunbleached in an annoying but salvageable way.
Patterns I would like to make:
Souffle by Laura Penrose: I've found a tangerine mohair I think would look lovely made up into this.
At least one blouse, which could be the Nautilus by Marilla Walker (sewing), one of my mods of the Sew Liberated Nocturne (sewing), or something like the Padolyst blouse by Teti Lutsak (knitting). Whether I sew or knit it will depend on how my current knitting fixation shakes out.
I don't know how many of them I'm going to make (or make into something), but I would at least like to finish my knitting and crochet projects and make at least one blouse, because tops are a bit of a hole in my wardrobe right now. If I do sew a blouse, or anything, it's going to be from stash. I really don't want to buy more fabric this year if I can at all help it, and I would like to have decent turnover of my yarn stash. Honestly sewing seems really Not Fun right now, but I hope that that will change at some point in the year.
So I don't normally partake in challenges like make nine and me made may, but I thought I would have a go this year, because I've been sewing for a little while now and I've also just picked up knitting again after, like, over a decade [minus two pairs of socks that I made at random points in the past six years or so].
Current WIPs:
Agnes Vest by Bethany Lynne: This was all but finished last year and just needs its ends weaving in. There are a lot of ends. This is liable to remain on the wip pile for seventeen more years. I was arrogant and naieve.
Hands Cardigan by The Flying Yak: This is on the needles as we speak, but is currently on hold in favour of another wip that has a hard deadline. It also keeps going in the naughty corner because of pattern reasons. I will have to review this when I've finished it because I have Thoughts (tm).
Strata by Jaqueline Cieslack: This is the current deadlined wip. I'm making it for my mum for Mother's day [the march one], and it's my first ever garment in 4ply and will be, when finished, the only time I've ever finished something in 4ply. I've cast on and frogged multiple 4ply projects but none have ever got this far. It's a bit of a trial by fire, but I know that if I'd picked another project that wasn't for my mum I would have no drive to finish it, but as it is I know for a fact that it will not beat me.
Baby quilt for my cousin's daughter: This is a paper pieced project and like all my paper pieced projects I'm designing it on the fly. It was supposed to be for christmas, but then I realised that I didn't have any drive to make my other cousin's children anything, and that felt a bit mean to give something to Elizabeth and nothing to Sid and Lavinia (all fake names). I'm not going to make anything for Sid and Lavinia, because my mum made a lot of stuff for Sid when he was born and his mother [the one of his parents who isn't my cousin] was kinda. what did you do that for. about it. So Elizabeth is getting a quilt for her first birthday instead.
Kaffe Fassett quilt: This needs quilting, but I wanted to try doing that by machine and my machine gave up the ghost and so I had to stop and now my hyperfixation on it has faded. It should be fairly quick though once I get going.
Sleeveless wrap top: This is something I drafted based on a dress I made last year. I finished it 90% of the way and then three things happened: I ran out of thread, I realised I'd missed a part of the seam in a really prominent spot, and my sewing machine broke down. The machine has been serviced now and I've accepted that it's okay to switch to a matching but not identical thread, but I haven't finished it because I'm scared I'll descover so many more issues.
Sleeveless long vest: I made this wrong. I self-drafted the pattern but didn't think through how the facing would attach and I did it wrong. It will be finished the second I unpick and redo the facing, but UGH.
Dinosaur top: This is another self-drafted stalled sewing project. Mainly it's stalled because I hate sewing with the fabric (weirdly stretchy cotton) but it's also stalled because of the aforesaid sewing machine breakdown and because I've changed my mind on what I want from the top now. I made the neck wider than I should have and I gave it trumpet sleeves, which now I'm not super sure about. I think I'm going to make a ruffle from scrap and sew that in at the neckline to make the neck smaller, and trim some of the excess off the sleeves. The process of doing the ruffle is going to be so annoying, but ehn. Actually I just realised I could buy a fuckton of green lace which might look nicer because then I won't have to figure out the directional print.
Future projects that I have all or most of the stuff for:
Forest Keys vest by Teti Lutsak: I'm really looking forward to this. It's another 4ply weight vest, but this time it's for me and it's covered in colourwork. The yarn is looking at me right now, but I have to get the Strata off the needles first.
Palazzo pants by Sasha Starlight: These are cut out of a lovely hot pink viscose, but have been sitting in my drawer since September, not out of any lack of desire to make them but because it got too cold to prioritise summery trousers. I have some issues with this pattern too; I'll review it when I'm done, but the main issue (product photos that misrepresented the fit) has now been fixed, so I'm not as mad as I was.
Materials that I would like to make up into Something but I don't know what yet:
Eight or so balls of the same cotton that I made my Agnes from.
A lot of hot pink cotton that was going to be a summer top and shorts, and was then going to be a wrap top and now who knows
3.5 meters of a yellow and pink Fabric Godmother viscose that I wanted to make into Sew Liberated Chanterelle trousers originally but now am contemplating making into a blouse.
3.5 meters of an entirely different pink viscose that was also intented to be trousers, but god knows.
4 meters of a dinosaur print silk that I'm terrified of cutting into.
One curtain-width of William Morris upholstry fabric I got from a charity destash sale and was going to make into shorts but keep thinking of making into a quilted vest top.
Six or seven meteres of 60" wide red wool that was going to be a Folkwear Travelling Suit but good god, the pattern grading was horrific. The skirt was as long as I am tall, because don't you know that every single fat person is taller than every single skinny person???
Some bright green viscose that was going to be Sasha Starlight trousers but accidentally got sunbleached in an annoying but salvageable way.
Patterns I would like to make:
Souffle by Laura Penrose: I've found a tangerine mohair I think would look lovely made up into this.
At least one blouse, which could be the Nautilus by Marilla Walker (sewing), one of my mods of the Sew Liberated Nocturne (sewing), or something like the Padolyst blouse by Teti Lutsak (knitting). Whether I sew or knit it will depend on how my current knitting fixation shakes out.
I don't know how many of them I'm going to make (or make into something), but I would at least like to finish my knitting and crochet projects and make at least one blouse, because tops are a bit of a hole in my wardrobe right now. If I do sew a blouse, or anything, it's going to be from stash. I really don't want to buy more fabric this year if I can at all help it, and I would like to have decent turnover of my yarn stash. Honestly sewing seems really Not Fun right now, but I hope that that will change at some point in the year.
