#18 Joji's Journal

[Music] good morning I am hockey and today is Friday July 13 very early in the morning well it's not that early it's 10:00 a.m. but I've been trying to record since I woke up because today in a couple of hours we are going to leave for our ski trip together with my family as well as my kids come out from school we are just grabbing the car and driving for 17 hours to the mountains and I wanted to record one last journal before um before living and to leave you guys with some something to watch while I'm away when I'm in the mountains I don't have good internet reception on my phone and the places we stay at they don't have good Wi-Fi service either it's like apparently phone companies and Internet companies have a really hard time getting service up there so everything is a bit patchy I am able to keep up with Instagram and social media but I won't be able to record from the mountains so I wanted to record this last journal before leaving it's been a week since I last chatted with you and it's been a really good week I made a lot of progress with many things and yes first of all I wanted to thank you for leaving feedback on my questions it's so great to read everyone's comments and suggestions and opinions last week I asked you whether you'd be interested in a subnet along and many of you said yes so with this video I give an official start to our subnet alone and the second question was whether you would be interested in me with bulky or chunky weight yarn and you all were so sweet and many of you commented on my on the sweater that I was wearing during journal number 17 so I I have decided to try to write that pattern down it will be at least the better interpretation of what I made and after I recorded I and you started sending comments I asked my husband to take some photos of the sweaters so that even if I'm wearing it a lot I don't get it ruined and I can use those photos for the pattern so again I think that for me my favorite part about recording the journal is thinking that there's someone out there watching it and there's an interaction and it doesn't feel one-sided at all when I record I always think that there's how someone listening to me and thinking about what I say so whenever you leave a comment on a video it actually reinforces that that feeling and it just makes it more wonderful to give you an example today I was getting ready to journal I just came out of the shower I just dried my bangs and and then I as I was coming here to my desk I thought oh I forgot to put on some perfume as if someone is really next to me and can smell my perfume so I thought it was really funny because I do feel like I'm getting ready to talk to a lot of people that are here with me so thank you for leaving comments on the videos and/or Instagram that really really makes my week and makes me want to come back really soon so yes so let's start talking about our sock needs along I am not good at like setting rules or forms or guidelines for Nita lungs so I just thought we could I'm opening a thread this this moment on Ravelry so by the time the video uploads to YouTube there will be a thrill in my rubber group my revelry group is called designs by hokey and yes so we can start now let's say let's start and if you finish a pair of socks out of one of my designs in within four weeks then you are eligible to if you finish just one sock you don't have to finish a pair because it's not going to be a very long time so in four weeks if you finish just one song one sock of their pair and if you post it to the rubble rethread then you're eligible to win a prize that I'm going to choose soon I'm going to open 2/3 so one of one of them is going to be for conversation I will try to be there every day but my internet will be a bit unstable during the first week as soon as I come home I will be there a lot more so one is going to be there for chat and support and to ask questions and I am very fortunate I've had my rubber group for many many years and we've never had any problems and all the people who've always hang out in my group they are really really amazing I have I'm so lucky the people who need my patterns apparently are super eager to help others so if you have a question about a thought pattern or if it's if this is your first sock that you've ever need then pop over to that thread and ask the question and even if I'm not there to reply it immediately I'm sure that there will be tons of people super happy to help and to chat and to engage in conversation I just love Nita lungs for that and what is so any of my sock patterns are eligible for this knit alone I haven't checked I think I have four but i will i will post i will post a link to all of my self patterns in the first post so you can choose and yes so what i'm what am i going to knit with you i have a pair of socks that I've been showing you it they are my scrubby socks but I also want to work from one of my patterns so I had this idea I hope you like it so my latest pattern are the Indigo leaves socks and they are designs for DK weight yarn so for my size I used 48 stitches but I thought do you remember this yarn from mr. bee it was a gift that I received when I was in bath and it's from the company / Street UK and I said that I wanted to make a pair of socks for me because I tend to give away a lot of the socks that I need and I really want to use this yarn and this is fingering weight yarn and the pattern is not written for fingering weight yarn is written for DK which is a lot thicker or heavier so I thought that while I'm knitting with you I'm going to post in the forum and perhaps in my project page the modifications I will be making to use this yarn and may perhaps 60 stitches to make the Indigo leaf socks did it make sense so I'm going to make the indio I'm going to use the Indigo leaves pattern but I'm going to tweak it or modify it for fingering weight yarn I'm going to wind this yarn today after I record this video and I think this is going to be one of my current knitting projects so I will be posting to Instagram and to my project page and to the forum how many stitches I'm using and then how many stitches I need before I start the chart and after I start after i end the chart so if any of you want to do that with me if any of you want to grab the indigo leaves pattern and follow my modifications to use a skein of fingering weight yarn then you're welcome to knit along with me and I will try to finish that first sock within four weeks so why four weeks let's look at the calendar so today is Friday 13 and I'm thinking of what to say or finishing this needs a long on August 10 so that gives us 4 weeks to finish at least one sock of the pair because every year in September I have my annual Fall knit along this that's a big knit along we need all kinds of patterns we have categories for sweaters accessories and shows and hats and stuff we have big big prices we have sponsors and it's usually a three month long needs a long that takes all of my time and my mother a touch time too so if we're going to have any sock needs a long separate from that it gives me then I thought it would be better to finish it a few days before the four little of starts so that they don't get mixed up and I can start getting the four little long threads ready for whenever that starts so having said that today's the kickoff day for our sickness alone you can stop whenever you want and the end date is going to be August 10 and because we have four weeks you need just one sock this is going to be only new projects eligible for these needs along I'm not going to check whether it's a new or an old work in progress but I asked you to be fair with others and if you want to win the prize just make sure that it's a new project and I'm sure going to show you next week when I come back what what yarn I have picked for that price anyway about the yarn that I'm going to use it's called superwash merino nylon with Stellina and it's called the no sorry the base is called LaRue asked in the street in French and a are Yui and the colorway is called just Rus by mr. P so this is my future project then works in progress as you can see I have my Elton cardigan here my Elton cardigan grew a lot guys I finished my work anything I think it was on Monday or Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday I finished my work knitting and I was completely stuck meeting on that I couldn't make any progress on that or anything else because I I you know how I've been feeling about their lives and commitments I tend to push my progress to worse the deadline which is very unlike me what I mean is that usually I finish things a lot in advance I don't like to come close to other line if if my deadline for something is July 13 then I definitely would finish stuff into for sure but this year I feel like a lot of things I've been changing a lot of things about the way I work about the way I collaborate about the trips I make and and I've been feeling a lot more anxious about deadlines and it's like I that anxiety doesn't help me to finish these designs in advance I just come very close to my deadlines so anyway I made the deadline and it's done it came out wonderful I kind of tell you about this design but it came out even better than I was hoping which is a huge reward because it took me a lot of a for it to finish this by the deadline and yes so I felt very liberated the first thing I grabbed is my Elton Guardian which is here as you can see it grew quite a bit I am more in love with the fabric now than I was before and I was very much in love with this already but it looks like a one of those fabrics that has like tulle and velvet I don't know what the name for that is but I'm sure you know what I mean it's like it's not an embroidered tool it's like a tulle and velvet stripy thing I'm really really liking these combination I'm very happy I came up with this plan for this year so for those of you joining me today for the first time in case you haven't seen my Elson cardigan before it is it is epoxy Cardian and working it from the top down like this it has a crew crew neck line like this and see it will have a button band so it curls a little bit right now because it doesn't have a button band or a neck line but it it should be okay with the button band and of course I can just button it down there and it has a drop shoulder construction this is the armhole and I'm using two yarns from the same company this is mohair silk and merrino single by Libyan ma in their yellow Sun beautiful yellow yellow brick road in there yellow brick road convoy and that's why I named my design Alton because Elton John is the author of the yellow brick road Sun one of my favorite songs and I'm working it on straight needles because that's how I usually need when I need back and forth it's a lot of stitches right now on the needle but it's making pro it's making good progress it's just as it's just a tiny gauge so I'm not that fast I think I will soon if not next start breathing because I don't want this cardigan to be very long the inspiration for this cardigan came because I have been sewing some clothes for myself lately and I've been very interested in sewing myself some dresses and I thought that it would be good to have a light boxy cardigan to wear on top of dresses and I don't want it to be too long so that it still shows some shape I feel like if it's too long and then I have a flowy dress underneath it's just not very flattering for some reason I think I prefer when I'm wearing something boxy on top and boxy underneath I think I prefer something not cropped but not long either so I think I'm ready for my bottom ribbing and then I just need to pick up the sleeves and need tubes they don't have any sleeves shaping here at the shoulder because it's a drop shoulder so basically my sleeves come all the way down to my arm here and therefore I don't need to shape the shoulders the shoulders are shaped here with the sweater and I'm using a lot less yarn than I thought I would so as you can see I'm almost done with the body and I don't need a lot more yarn because this lease won't be to be I have just started my second skein of the single ply and I still have this much of the mohair I have the suspicion that I won't need to break into my second skin so the good news is that these sweater even if it's boxy and loose-fitting might only take me two skeins of fingering weight yarn and one skein of mohair and then I can have another skein of mohair for another project so yeah that's my Elton cardigan and then I also have I also have my scrappy sucks I thought I finished the first one off and I only hit I only added oops I dropped my stitches hold on let me them back on the needle there were a lot of stitches that I dropped okay there we go so I only added the second color so I didn't make a lot of progress on these and and yes so I still have to add one two three four five colors I still have a long way to go with these and I will be starting a second pair of socks so this might not get a lot of work on this week but I've been working on them on them I took them in my purse and I carried them around and I basically don't need at all with them and then my other work in progress I can't show you because it's satisfying for interpretations that I'm working on and we I give you hints sometimes but I don't want to show it to you because I already started the color work part and I kind of wanna keep that as a price for when we published the book so if you never heard of interpretations every year I get together with my friend Parramatta Mackay who lives in Finland she's of course Finnish we are best friends and we publish book together we write a book together every year and we get together to photo shoot these designs yes we put them together as interpretations this year we're working on interpretations volume six and it will be photographed in November and the book will come out next year 2019 for our bubbly around March but I'm not 100% sure so each of us writes down six Chavez designs six patterns for the book so the book contains twelve patterns I'm being working on several samples for the book this is my fourth if they sign for it and I'm making a color work yoke sweater and I just wanted to use I just wanted to show you the yarn again because I finally started my sample and I'm loving loving loving this yarn this is pirate wool company I first heard of this yarn perhaps over a year ago or two perhaps two years ago and these companies owned by Susan be under Sun and I met Susan we were teaching together at an event and Susan had some of her samples made out of this yarn of course and I absolutely fell in love with it this year is not always available is a small batch yarn so I caught into their newsletter to know when they had it available so that I could order it for my book sample so it's called Wisconsin woolen span and it's just that a beautiful lofty earring woolens fun I just love it it's really really great if you guys can get your hands if you if you can buy some of these I know I shouldn't say they because then there won't be anymore available but I just it's just too great not to share this is a really really good really really good young you should you should try to buy at least once game trust trust me so this is worsted weight yarn 250 yards in 100 grams and the colorway is called cable so I just wanted to say this is 100 gram skein but it feels really big and it feels like the yarn is going a really long way because it's so lofty my gauge is 18 stitches to 4 inches so I feel like you can get a lot of fabric out of one skein of yarn I still haven't finished my first cane I cannot guarantee that but it definitely feels like you get a lot of out of one skein this colorway is pebble this is my main color and then I am using the natural to do my drawings my motives and this is called furch I also wanted to talk about how I design because I'm not going to be teaching these classes a lot more so I thought I'd share with you some of the things that I use for my design work so these are the needles that I usually use when I need with circular needles and whenever I travel like today I'm getting ready to travel and work at the same time I love this set because it's very compact and it takes no space these are the hi fires interchangeable needles I haven't tried the try goes I think they also come in a very compact set but these are really great so I don't even feel like I need to try anything else I don't like to buy tools whenever things work for me I have also a set of neat Pro ornate picks that I really like and I use all the time it's this kind of needle and I use them all the time but the the only con that I find is that if I don't use the key to really lock them they come they unscrew sometimes and I don't feel like that happens so much with the highest sorry I'm gonna put my phone somewhere else there we go and also the let's see if it's here so far where I keep those needles together it's really heavy because I have so many of them this is needle keeper by pink hazel and I have all of these that was so unintelligent let's forget about that I'm gonna pick them up later anyway I keep my needles here and they fall as you can see if you don't open it correctly in my defense I usually open this on a table but this is where I keep all my Negro nilo sand cables and it's just a lot of stuff so I don't tend to bring my needles my neat Pro needles with me to say fall and I lose them so this is what I bring instead it has a handy it has a handy cover so that you don't do that by mistake and I fir I had bought the red set so I think the red set is the higher higher sharps and I hated them I really hated them because they were sharp and I kept stabbing my own fingers with them and it hurts because it is the way because of the way I need I suppose and it really hurt I didn't want to use these needles because it's like how do you call that negative negative conditioning when you keep punishing someone for an action and then that person instinctively doesn't wanna do that action anymore it's like negative programming I think it was negative conditioning anyway I didn't want to use my needles fortunately I found neither here pal in Argentina she's a friend of mine and she really wanted that said she preferred the lace tips the sharp tips so I they stashed mine and with that money I could buy my blue set which is the regular the regular set they are quite sharp anyway compared to my finger I still stop myself sometimes but not so much and of course it could be due to stupidity or lack of ability using my needles but I'm much happier with base fit so that's what I bring with me and then this is my notions pouch in my notions pouch I have darling needles tape measure what schnitz take measure I have a big stitch marker one of those cut thing is it's big enough to fit in my pinky finger so it's too big for regular kind of meeting I don't find it very comfortable but I have it just in case you never know if you're going to need with bulky yarn sometime I have a pair of scissors if I'm traveling by plane I have a different pouch so these scissors they I never try to put these through security and then I have these thing with pen highlights or a red pen and pencil and an eraser and a sharpie and then in my pockets I keep my stitch markers there you go they're just loose they're in my pocket so I don't have a lot going on I have my needles and my notions pouch and this is how I usually this is how I usually decide I have notebooks everywhere this is a very old one and as you can see I keep notes of all my design work here and sketches and let's see what this is to show you how I usually write my designs something that you might know these are very old these times I don't know if any of you knows okay so let's see these this design it says sandara's silver shell it was a design that I designed it was a show that I designed for a collaboration together with Sandra yarns and it's called inner peace that was the final name of the design and as you can see I write down my gauge my needles then I might add measurements I draw a sketch of what I have in mind sometimes it doesn't end up looking exactly like that I added I added a section to the initial sketch and then I start I write instructions in as if I was them as if I was the knitter reading from those instructions so I don't I even add notes like see glossary so that when I move these notes to my computer I remember that I have to do that so I don't take anything for granted when I designs when I design this is a newer one I have a ton of those this is the instructions for Somali Somali Guardian this is a notebook that my friend Haley gifted me I have a lot of Marimekko notebooks because my Finnish friends supply me with those and I use them all but as you can see I have I start with with 2 point 75 millimeter needles cast on so I write my instructions on paper as I go and so I don't need to bring my computer with me or I don't take notes on my phone I just take notes on paper of everything I make I'm starting anew no book for this trip because my friend Tina gave me another money-making outlook and I like this one because I'm doing color work so I could trace I I just designed these motifs that I'm trying for my color work tunic and I have I have my yarn information here I have more things that I'm trying out and I have some directions here on how to start and if so I'm taking these on the car and I'm just taking notes of what I'm doing with my calculator and stuff on the car and then I have also these beautiful I use these sometimes when I have to shut me to a magazine this is a notebook that my friend ANCA gifted me and I love it because it's the many of you might know this is the pocket fashion sketch pad and it comes with it comes with these blank ladies nude ladies nude ladies that I can draw my ideas on so if I want to submit design to a magazine I usually have to send them a sketch of what I am thinking of and oftentimes it's not easy for me to draw the human figure in a very flattering way so for example this is something that I might have sent to a magazine so this way they can see the movement there's a there's a front view and a back view so yeah so that's great I use this only when I to submit to a magazine I don't draw my sketches my ideas I don't draw them like that for me they don't need to be so fancy if I'm if I want to take note of something that I want to design for myself I usually do something more like this as you can see I don't have a fashion background I just I just understand what I want to make that's it so I thought that was my beats I always say that there's no magic behind need where they signed that do we I didn't take any lessons on how to design sweaters and I don't feel that what I do is I'm I'm not an artist and I don't know how to draw even a few cans as you can see and I can still design things that I like and there's no magic or like is there's not a clever software that does the work is just a calculator and just watching and there's no nothing special about what we do behind the scenes yes so let's see let's get these myths covered so that I can deal with that later and finally I don't have any finished objects to show you but I have some acquisitions that I forgot to show you last week so my friend Ally I have talked about Ally many times she is yarn Dyer and she's also my best friend and she lives here in Buenos Aires about half an hour away from home and we get together every week probably every few days and sometimes we do swaps so let's suppose I decide something we yarn with a specific yarn and I have some yarn left over then la likes to try that yarn I usually she likes superwash worsted weight yarn that I might have left over because here in Argentina we cannot find superwash bases her bases are locally made their custom spun for her from arts and science sheep art and time will and they are milled here in Argentina and so she's interested in some of the super version that I have left over so we swap my leftover skeins and she brings me some of her young to work with so last week she brought this beautiful schemes as you can see they go very well with today's background for those of you who think that I've been stashing a lot I'm just every over organized my yarn sometimes and if I haven't been adding a lot to my stash it's just that I have more things around and there are more shelves up there I just I usually see only the Shelf here below and also there's more yarn downstairs there's young everywhere basically around my house but it's not like I've been buying crazy buying a lot of yarn lately I just have these new skins to show you so this is a lace worsted weight base which is crazy soft Korean is called puta y la voz ìletís means yarns in Spanish so it's like pure yarns and this is 100 grams and 190 yards of 100% Argentine superfine merino wool not super wash so this is the chocolate brown chocolate brown color it's called here I think gia G E a this color it doesn't have a tag she made it for me a while ago and it's called something like a sweet River or Marla Dolson in reference of our Rio de la Plata River which has these colors this is my favorite but she only had one of these I wanted more this is her full canvas Ali please make me more I need more of this and this is honey beautiful yellow so that's my new yarn that I have for this week and I think that's all I have to say about knitting yes so let's get started with that sock knit alone I wanted to also give you an update regarding my working out a couple of journalists ago I told you that I was going to start working out again with a friend who's a trainer and I did I'd be working with her for three weeks now and I can honestly report that I see absolutely no change in my body it just hurts a lot and I still don't like working out but I'm doing it I haven't I'm not giving up I think every time I start working out again to be honest I work out pretty regularly like I've always done it but during the last month's I had just let go a bit and that's why I wanted to share with you that I was thinking of going back but I do it all the time every time I go back to it I think I have to go through the process of I think when I go back to it I have this illusion that my body is going to change and that actually I'm going to be super hot after two weeks of training and then every time I have to go through the process of realizing that no you at this age you don't workout to look super hot you just work out because otherwise the doctor will tell you off but it's good it's working out my body hurts a lot every day which means that it's it's having repercussion in my muscles hopefully that will help me be a bit more in shape with my breathing capabilities when I have to go to Canada in September because I have big hiking plans and I really want to up my breathing capacity by them so if you have also started working out congratulations keep it up and let's hurt together next I would like to share with you some sewing that I've been doing and planning and it's it's going to be relatively long section so if you are not interested in my sewing adventures thank you for staying so far and I appreciate your being here and you when I come back from my ski trip this week I've been showing some beautiful things I've been spending a lot of time planning also and looking at patterns for the coat that I want to make and I've been very distracted with sewing which is good because I'm enjoying it a lot the first thing I wanted to show you is a couple of tops that I made baby tops for my friend Nash who is pregnant with her second girl so I made two of them I made this one in the larger in the four to five years old sighs the top has little pockets and it has long sleeves it has a button in the back so you can open it so this is the four to five years old sighs and this is the smallest size which is still super big for a newborn it's the six to twelve months old size but I thought I think I don't have an overlooked early so I cannot make something easily with neat fabric I haven't yet tried my regular sewing machine with knit fabric and I don't think that the best idea is to start sewing some knit fabric with little baby things like newborn things so I couldn't think of anything that I would have enjoy putting on my newborn babies with like woven fabrics I I remember really enjoying the stretch of interlock and cotton like knit cotton so I decided to make them something larger for when the baby is six months old I used the baby smoke top by Jenny from rixton or bigspin and I loved that pattern I just have a really hard time doing the bias finding I think I'm not I think there's something that I'm not doing okay because whenever I fold my bias to the right side it it just it doesn't get to cover properly the fabric underneath so I think I should trim the things before folding the pie responding binding but I'm not completely sure I'm still pleased with the result I still think they look super cute and I know my friend Nash will enjoy them very much for those of you who don't know who Nash is she is Knight of a gypsy moon on Ravelry and I think her instagram name is the same and she's my group moderator she's been my group moderator for many years and I just adored her she's one of my dearest friends yes so baby talk six months sighs and four to five years sighs for Alana her sister yes and the fabric that I used I bought these at the local market which I'm going to talk about later and they had a lot of I have a really hard time buying prints because I tend to be a bit I don't necessarily like the prints that we can find here in Argentina they look they just don't look quite right they looked like misprinted or cheap at least in these stores but I saw this one and I thought it looked kind of modern and abstract while at the same time being feminine and playful and baby Stein so I am really happy that I purchased it I I can see them wearing this with some blue jeans yes so to me they look modern and not just baby prints and that's why I liked it I bought one meter of this fabric and I could make both tops out of just one meter yes I'm going to add a link to the pattern in the show notes below and the bigger make that I made is this you might have seen it already on Instagram or Facebook and I took last week how I wanted to make this dress so badly and I just started over the weekend and I made it I couldn't tell you how much I love this dress I cannot say enough good things about the pattern sorry Marilla if you're watching I promise I'm not stalking you and I don't want to be a suck-up Marilla is the designer of the pattern I just I think I've been complimenting her too much she might be a bit overwhelmed but I was so happy with the pattern and I still can't believe that just by reading Harry's I could make I could make this I made it yes so let's start let's dress here so that I can tell you more about it let's see if it stays sorry about that so the dress pattern is called the iske dress a skirt dress and it comes in sizes 1 to 10 I think they don't have any relationship with us sizing or UK sizing I think she just gives her patterns and order so the first size one is the smallest of course and size 10 is the biggest my bust size is 36 inches or 90 centimeters and this dress is size 5 of the 10 with a lot of positive east I could I think I could have easily fit a smaller size so I could have made the size 4 for me and it would have been very good too I think I'm I'm in anyway I'm super happy that I made these sides um the dress comes with two views view a and view P dua is this one it's a shirt dress with buttons and a placket and a color and UB has a it's a wrap front so like this it has no buttons and I think it doesn't have these pockets I think it has different style of pockets and I really like I really like the shirt dress style for for me and I really really like the pockets when I purchased the pattern I didn't know what I was getting self into I just knew that I had I had had a really good experience with marilla's instructions for my Maya talk so I decided that I just realized I could understand the way she writes and I could follow her instructions easily so I thought it was a good idea to purchase another of her patterns for address because if there was any if there were any difficult techniques involved in I will probably be able to figure them out with her writing and that was true I the sweater has the sort of the dress has a lot of pieces especially here for the bodies you have 1 1 2 3 4 pieces and then there's a shoulder rings for reinforcement here that you cannot see it's underneath it's on the inside of the dress but it's like a flap here to leave this little more structure in this section and the back has these diagonal lines in the shoulder yoke because of those reinforcements and then you have 2 button placket and then you have 2 color stands this section of the dress and two colors I would say so it's a lot of pieces for the poorest only and then you have the sleeves two pieces for each pocket the front skirt and the back skirt so cutting these out took some time and effort and I have to be very careful but what I did is I added post-it notes to each of the pieces so that I could keep track of which piece was what and also because my fabric didn't have a clear right and wrong side so I didn't want to or at least I wasn't seeing it so I didn't want to realize only after a while that the fabric had a nap or that it actually had a right and wrong side so I wanted to make sure that all the tress was made out of the same side of the fabric and so I I found that labeling all those pieces was helpful it was my first time making a shirt color and color stand and button holes and I'm not going to lie it was difficult and I had to be very precise with my stitching some of the themes are not perfect but I think that overall this looks very neat during the weekend I was having a lot of problems keeping my stitches to look nice and I couldn't I couldn't make it work with this fabric I'm going to show you what I'm talking about if you look closely my stitches look kind of messy kind of all over the place like my tension is not OK and here you can see it more and of course and I'm a bit of a perfectionist maybe I don't know if I am super perfectionist but it might be but the thing is that I was consciously trying to make my stitches look nice and neat and I couldn't make it work this this is not something I realized after and then I thought ok I'll leave it if I had realized afterwards I wouldn't have bothered they wouldn't have bothered me it's not like it's an ugly seam but what bothered me is that I was making a big effort in making those scenes look a bit better and I couldn't make it work I tried everything I even posted to Instagram saying asking for help or suggestions I trust me guys I tried everything that you can think of I tried all of the attentions I changed needle a hundred times all of the size needles old needles new needles different threads different different quality of the threads cotton polyester I adjusted the bobbin tension i I don't know what else I tried I tried everything and seriously nothing was making my stitches look any different when my friend fella came and she took a look at the fabric this is cheap fabric I usually hit use because I'm still learning from our fabric district she took a look at the fabric and she said this is polyester or mainly polyester fabric and it's woven in such a way that it's messing up with your stitches I didn't know whether to believe her I wanted to believe her because I really wanted my machine to not be broken I was ready to send my machine in for repair this week but after I finished that dress I started the baby tops and as you can see my stitches for the baby tops are just fine there's nothing wrong with them and I didn't change any of the settings in my machine between these and this the threats are using for the thread that I use for these tops it's the same brand and quality as I ended up using for the dress so my only theory is that it is the fabric what caused the stitches to look like that and perhaps I couldn't find the proper thread or needle for it but I I promise you I tried every possible kind of needle and every possible kind of thread that I had available to me so that's it I suppose that's what you get with these fabric with these cheap fabric it was my first time doing buttonholes and it was difficult and I still don't think that I got the hang of it completely positioning my positioning my needle so that the center of the buttonhole was exactly where I wanted was very hard I had to make each buttonhole maybe twice so we took a couple of hours I think to make those buttonholes but I made them and it wasn't terrible it just took time and patience um this dress took 2.5 days to make I if I hadn't done anything else I probably could have done it in two days which is for me it's amazing I can't believe I can make it these type of trails like a more elaborate race with like a proper dress it when I finished this wrist I felt like I was not a beginner so is anymore I can make something that looks like something I would pick up from store and it looks well finished and well put together and much more elaborate actually I think that having more scenes and more structure it's a bit more flattering for someone with my figure because I have curves and I have a pear shape and I feel like seeing sand and gathers and waist even if it's not tight at all it's a very comfortable fit interest I feel like these it's I feel better wearing this type of clothes rather than the trapeze race which is more like a claim to Nicki Stein I'm not saying that I'm not going to make any more of those I love them but I feel more well-put-together with something like that so 10 thumbs up for the pattern I give it 10 stars the result is beautiful I want to make many more of these dresses again Murray less sorry if I sound like a suck-up I promise I'm not trying to embarrass you with my praise but it's a really really great pattern I don't feel like I'm I'm a beginner anymore I feel after making this dress I feel I'm ready for anything and so yes thank you for thank you for this thank you very much yes so those are my finished sewing projects and I want to share with you a work in progress that I have to put my dress oh here so last week I showed you all so I'm going to sit back in the center last week I showed you some yellow mud Mousavi you know fabric that I purchased to make a coat oh we're over an hour now sorry about that yes the sewing section makes the podcast very long I hope that's okay so I I had a hard time picking a pattern and I picked two patterns I and I purchased both I purchased the Oslo coat I'm adding a link to that underneath that's my favorite coat when I look at it I think that's my favorite shape I want that looks exactly like that but I also feel like I like it very much in black or in that blue plaid fabric that they made it out of and I am not absolutely certain that I would love that style in the master the yellow and right after I purchased that pattern Anita I think Anita suggested that I take a look to pattern in French called magnesium so in French is mantle magnesium and I loved it it's only available in French but I think that one of the many good things about having Spanish as my mother tongue is that actually I can read most of the Latin languages and understand them so I'm pretty sure I could read a pattern in Portuguese Italian or French and I and I could follow the instructions but I I also know some science very little French from school so I went ahead and I purchased the pattern and I love I love the pattern because it comes with many options which for some people can be overwhelming for me it's a it's really fun because I learn to do all of these options you get to read how how do you make those things happen so the pattern comes in three lengths they'll be possible lengths I make the second length which is like a long jacket length it comes this is the shorter length this is the medium length and the longer one comes down almost to the knees and I decided to make a muslin or a 12 for my coat using some of that cheap denim that I talked about last week from our fabric district our fabric district is amazing and horrible at the same time in Argentina there is a neighborhood called on sale you spell it as you would spend once and it's a place where you can find lots of fabric stores but really dirty dirty messy crappy ones there's a lot of horrible fabric and really cheap horrible horrible stuff and you guys I'm not a snob as I sound but some stuff is really really horrible but also I feel like there are a lot of middle ends or like the ends of the cones and there are stores who just buy that from factories and mills and they sell it as a really cheap prices so these denim it's a really thick denim and a bit elastic there you go it's very sturdy it feels like it's made for jeans and it's in this deep blue I already washed it for two reasons and the first of all is to avoid shrinkage shrinkage after sewing and the second is because everything you buy there is filthy so you must wash it for hygienic reasons this denim is made by an Argentine factory called alparagata this Factory is very well known for their quality in fabrics they make clothes and they make their own cotton fabric and the fabric lasts forever so I could see the cone that cone said I forgot us and when I looked at the inside of the fabric that were stamped they're saying a target us so it made me think that this was a really good quality sturdy fabric and they were selling it for one dollar and fifty cents a meter but you had to take whatever metric they had of that cone and so I came home with 4.5 meters of denim that I had no plans for so I thought what best idea what better idea than using these up to make a for my coat so that's what I'm doing I'm using as I said the magnesium coat pattern first you have to pick the basic pattern comes with either the single closure or double or double button closure I picked about the single one and then you can pick several options for the color the color and it has many options for pockets you can have inseam pockets or patch pockets I'm going to do patch pockets for the Jean version you have shoulder how do you call this in English like shoulder patches also there are instructions to add shoulder pads and cuff tabs martingale it comes with a detachable hood option folded color officer color v-neck with these it has a zipper reduction anyway it comes in a lot of options and I haven't yet completely decided how I'm going to make mine I'm also practicing top stitching I put this thicker weight thicker thread for top stitching and I bought it in yellow and in blue and I think I like the blue better because it makes the coat look a bit dressier even if it's the name and I wanted to be casual I don't want it to look completely like a denim jacket and then I'm a top stitch the pleat here and I haven't yet sewn the side seams it's only paint so that I could show you so this is my working progress this is going to be on hold until I come home from the holidays and it's going to have a lining so that I can practice lining my coat I got this fabric from the same place I think it's also a meal and I think it's going to look good this is a cotton twill it it's royal blue and it has tiny red and turquoise dots I don't think you can you can see that I also like the wrong side of the fabric because you can see all the threads used for the patterning so I think I bought these to make sometimes the fabric is so cheap you just buy it I bought these to make up top I think and I'm I was going to combine the right side on the wrong side like this but then I thought it was perfect for lining my jacket and that way I didn't have to buy more fabric for the lining so that's my working progress and I also have some fabric acquisitions that I want to share with you in our fabric district you can literally find hundreds of shops and I think that if you count those shops that have our - Sheree items like buttons and ribbons and all of accessories used for clothes and bag making I think you could say that there are a thousand shops in the area it's a whole neighborhood where you can buy anything from wedding dresses supplies to party costumes it's it's just so overwhelming it's so good and so bad at the same time so yesterday my friend Ali and I went fabric shopping a bit and we bought some new dresses fabrics to make dresses for ourselves for the upcoming summer so the first shop we we first went to an area and then we moved the car and went to a second area so we walked around the first area and they were basically wholesalers they wouldn't sell any fabric by the meter and not even ten meters they would sell like the complete cone of the fabric which is like 25 50 meters and it was a bit too much for us even being two of us having 25 meters each of the same fabric in the same color you know but then we found one store who was willing to sell us 10 meters and we thought okay it's two of us we could to five meters each because most dresses that we like have a lot of fabric and folds and gathers and a lot of the patterns that I've been looking at call for three or thick even 3.5 meters of fabric so I thought okay that's not so it's saturated so we said okay and we started looking at their fabrics and they didn't have the cheap stuff that they have in the other area they have they obviously wholesale to fashion labels and other shops and makers and they had stuff that we had never seen before and as we were looking at it the shop the shop assistant was very nice to us and she said okay I can cut you two different colors if you want to make up for those 10 meters so we thought okay and we found linen which is not something that you find very often here good quality linen and both Ali and I decided to go for it so we found this 100% linen white crisp and beautiful superb quality not cheap quality at all this is really really good stuff hundred percent linen to make summer dress Ali took four meters and I took three so I'm thinking of maybe making like a wrap wrap dress wrap long dress it's thick ish so I'm hoping that I won't be able to I won't need to line the skirt but I just might have to to wear something like a like an undergarment for dresses I don't I don't remember how those are called and then they had this cone of these beautiful linen for shirt making and we think that this has a bit of viscose but the texture of these fabric is amazing and they didn't have a ton of it they only had four meters so I got 2.5 an ally God can you see the shine it's so nice I know you guys are used to these fabrics but for Ali and I to be able to find these yarns in Argentina was a shock and a very nice surprise so we think that the black one has a bit of viscose but it still feels like a fantastic fantastic fiber and the white one is definitely 100% linen so the price is compared to the denim that I told you was 1.5 dollar that wasn't such a bargain I sleep in before taking it at that price this was more like this one was $13 a meter this was $10 a meter yes so that was like $40 for the white fabric and $25 for the black fabric and it might not sound a lot like a lot but it's a lot of money for us and yes and I feel we left the shop we were so excited and but I felt like I started considering patterns for these two and I I felt like oh no what if I ruin it what if I don't make something good enough for that fabric which is a feeling I don't have anymore for yarn I tend to use all my expensive yarned freely but this fabric was overwhelming me and I loved it so much that I want to make something really really beautiful out of it and I found myself blocked because of the expensiveness so when we move to the different neighborhood and we were back again with all the bargains I thought again I'm going to buy something cheaper to practice a bit more dress making Aliyah and I have purchased the roscoe dress from true bias and we plan to sew it together or to sew along and I was something drapey I didn't think the lay the linen was drape enough for that design so that's why I purchased this this is very very out of my comfort zone this is my comfort zone this is not my comfort zone but I I really want to I sometimes wear prints when I see something at the store that I like I purchase it and I'm worried very happily but when I have to purchase the fabric I think it too much and I don't think I'm going to wear the what am I going to wear that with anyway we were looking at their silk or they call these silks but they are viscose I think or rayon and they had a lot of them and I thought okay when I put it together with my black fabric like this I thought okay I really like the way these fabric looks when I pair it with like a black jacket or or black leggings so I decided to grab three meters of this and this was five dollars for three meters so next my next project is going to be my $5 rosco dress and I hope it turns out okay I know many of you say well you know your project is only as expensive or as good as your materials are and I think it's true but so far I've been very satisfied with my mix from my local fabric shops and I and I hope I'll feel comfortable wearing this fabric it's very drapey it's very very drapey and I'm hoping that when I make my Rosco dress it will actually look like something very classy and I don't I will try to forget what I paid for it and I will try to think of how much of my time and handiwork have been invested in the trace and I think of it as the most expensive dress in the world yes so those are my new summer dresses over there for when summer arrives right now it's very cold so I think that's it for today's Journal it's an hour and a half I just realized but I had a lot to share with you mmm I hope you guys leave me your comments ask me any questions about the patterns that I've been talking about whether they are knitting or sewing patterns I'm super happy to hear from you and if I forget to mention any details of what I'm using or if you're interesting knowing where these shops are or how to visit just drop me a message here on youtube or anywhere and I'll do my best to reply thank you again for being here with me today and see you next week when I come back bye [Music]

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Published: Fri Jul 13 2018