Sewing & Free Pattern Sites

[AdJesumPerMariam]

Does anyone else here love to sew??? I am looking for religious based patterns on the net. I have found several free pattern sites!

http://www.blockcrazy.com/Classics for Members.htm

http://craftandfabriclinks.com/craftpat.html

http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/

http://www.allcrafts.net/sewing.htm#freeprojects

http://www.craftown.com/quilt/pat5.htm

But I am always looking for more!

I love to make things for people...and hardly have anything I have made!!!

Feel free to pm me, or just add to the list-lets talk!

Love-n-Blessings
dee

 

[Beauty4Ashes]

Does anyone else here love to sew??? I am looking for religious based patterns on the net. I have found several free pattern sites!

http://www.blockcrazy.com/Classics for Members.htm

http://craftandfabriclinks.com/craftpat.html

http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/

http://www.allcrafts.net/sewing.htm#freeprojects

http://www.craftown.com/quilt/pat5.htm

But I am always looking for more!

I love to make things for people...and hardly have anything I have made!!!

Feel free to pm me, or just add to the list-lets talk!

Love-n-Blessings
dee

No I don't know of any websites. i make my own patterns or buy them but thank you for sharing.

 

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[pmcleanj]

Does anyone else here love to sew???

Absolutely I do! Back before children, I used to sew all my own clothes. And early in my motherhood days I sewed all the children's clothes. Now I've faced the reality that I just can't keep up. But that only means I can pick and choose and sew only the things I love.

The last thing I completed was a priest's cassock -- as a costume for the ballet Coppelia. The last thing before that was my elder daughter's confirmation dress, and before that a pancake-tutu for the ballet Nutcracker. My current projects are a silk suit for me, a cotton-batiste "Sunday Best" dress for my younger daughter, and matching red cotton fleece track suits for the two girls.

My favourite free-pattern sites are heritage patterns like this site: http://www.marquise.de/en/1900/index.shtml What projects are you working on? What kind of religious patterns are you looking for -- paraments and vestments? For sewing paraments, I usually make my own patterns, but I'd be surprised if the 'net didn't have some good patterns somewhere.

 

[LADY DI]

Hi ladies,

Thanks for sharing those sites!!!

Im wanting to learn how to sew, in the process of buying a sewing machine.
So when the time comes, Ill have these sites to go to!!!

Di

 

[Loki]

Would love to sew, don't have much time, have no experience. Don't even know how to use a pattern. Thanks for the links, though. I do quilt a bit, and it's great to look at patterns to get ideas.

 

[pmcleanj]

Thanks for sharing those sites!!!

Im wanting to learn how to sew, in the process of buying a sewing machine.
So when the time comes, Ill have these sites to go to!!!

Hey, no problem.

What kind of machine are you looking at? My first machine was a miniature 4-kilogram Swiss-made Elna that sewed back and forward and did zig-zags and bar-tack button-holes. Given its make, and the fact that I was a student at the time, it cost more than I made in three months (C$500(!) in 1980 dollars) but it got me through University and my first decade of work, sewing everything I wore (given that with that kind of income, I sure couldn't buy ready-made!). And, frankly, the best tailoring doesn't need any more fancy a machine than that.

Now I have a sewing-embroidery machine with electronic controls and built-in decorative stitches. And I really like it. I'm learning to use the fancy stitches more, and it adds designer touches to the things I make that I'd have had to do by hand before (and frankly wouldn't have had time for). But my little machine still pulls its weight when I take sewing projects travelling with me.

Have you picked a "first project" yet? Who/what are you learning from?

 

[AdJesumPerMariam]

Hey, no problem.

What kind of machine are you looking at? My first machine was a miniature 4-kilogram Swiss-made Elna that sewed back and forward and did zig-zags and bar-tack button-holes. Given its make, and the fact that I was a student at the time, it cost more than I made in three months (C$500(!) in 1980 dollars) but it got me through University and my first decade of work, sewing everything I wore (given that with that kind of income, I sure couldn't buy ready-made!). And, frankly, the best tailoring doesn't need any more fancy a machine than that.

Now I have a sewing-embroidery machine with electronic controls and built-in decorative stitches. And I really like it. I'm learning to use the fancy stitches more, and it adds designer touches to the things I make that I'd have had to do by hand before (and frankly wouldn't have had time for). But my little machine still pulls its weight when I take sewing projects travelling with me.

Have you picked a "first project" yet? Who/what are you learning from?

I, too, have a sewing-embroidery machine! I think I am constantly learning new things with it. My first machine just did a few stitches. I learned on my mom's machine that had cams with it. That was a l-o-n-g time ago!

I am getting ready to make my grandaughter some clothes, and I need to make a quilt for another grandbaby...and ...there is so much I want to do!

 

[pegatha]

I've been sewing since I was a little girl. My mother taught me. My favorite things to sew are clothes: real-people clothes, historical costumes, and Barbie outfits. I've done a little bit of patchwork and some curtains, too, but clothes are my "thing". Although right now we need a Civil War tent for an event we're going to, and my husband has talked me into making one to save money. I'm not too sure how this will work out.

 

[armywife&mom]

I love to quilt...and I can make "simple" arts and crafts projects with my machine. My mom can't believe that she can sew anything and I couldn't put a sleeve together if my life depended on it! lol Thanks for the websites ref the free patterns.

 

[sunshinejennii]

I love to sew, i dont have a machine so i hand sew everything i make, generally i dont make clothes from scratch but radically alter them.

 

[pmcleanj]

I love to sew, i dont have a machine so i hand sew everything i make, generally i dont make clothes from scratch but radically alter them.

In my university days I was also completely dependent on hand-sewing. The first ever purchase I made with my own money once I could afford anything beyond tuition and food was a bottom-end Elna "lotus" portable sewing machine. But until then, since I couldn't afford ready-made clothes, I had one-of-a-kind made-to-measure 100%-hand-stitched everything. Poverty and wealth meet through necessity!

I still seam things by hand while waiting for busses or sitting through children's extracurricular activities as the chauffering parent, but now at least I have the choice of finishing, in a minute or two when I get home whatever I didn't accomplish during the enforced wait-time of my day.

Anybody here use Folkwear patterns?

 

[Dillon]

go to google.com images for any kind of pic you would possibly want.

 

[pegatha]

Sunshinejenni, I think it is so cool that you sew everything by hand. My machine wasn't working right last year when I had deadline to finish a Civil War dress for an event, so I finished the dress mostly by hand and it turned out great. Sewing by hand also gave me the chance to do a lot of the work from the right side of the fabric, so I could match up the print perfectly at the seams. The most recent project I've finished is the tent I mentioned in my last post in this topic, but you can bet I did that one by machine!

 

[pmcleanj]

I just finished two pretty cotton dresses for my daughter and her friend. It's a folkwear pattern -- here's a link to the design: http://www.folkwear.com/213.html. I used a blue-on-white poly/cotton blend for the smaller one, and a pretty pink calico for the larger; both with white bonnets. They wore them today to the local living-history park. Great fun!