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#linen

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Sini Tuulia

The white linen saga, where I bought four one metre pieces of white linen of the same weight, to compare them, and see which one I liked most. Oh and also randomly received five one metre pieces, but anyway. 😄 Here they are, currently washed but not ironed, in case I don't get around to it before it gets too dark for good photos. They're so different!

A close up photo of the folded edges of five different white linen fabrics, all stacked up and fanned out like a... fan, I suppose. They all seem about the same thickness from the fold, but the amount and way they are wrinkled and crumpling are different between each fabric. Some have thicker thread, some finer, and they are woven with different amounts of space between each thread. Very minute variations in the colour as well, going from a natural creamy white to warm white to crisp snow white. The two top ones seem like they might be the same fabric but twice. The densest and softest looking one, like the fibres in the thread are more round and full, is the second to lowest one, the middle being the sparsest, and the top ones being very finely woven thin thread. Sini's pink fingertips holding the lowest one.
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Sini Tuulia

My experiment in ordering four different white linen fabrics from the same shop has yielded these results:
All of them are minutely but noticeably different and I was able to pick out a favourite for different uses despite all of them being some of the most beautiful fabrics I've ever handled. I have ranked them, hopefully without mixing them up!

#Sewing#Linen
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Sini Tuulia

Sunlight photos of the night dress sewing I did yesterday. Took the top of sleeve, arm's eyes and yoke section off my basic blouse pattern and then just cut a series of rectangles and straight lines. Sleeve slits by hand, some quick pintucks with the twin needle and overlocking with the viscose thread... And now about to relax with minutely hemming the rest of this ruffle by hand.

A top down photo of the upper yoke sections of a dress, with pintucks sewn onto the white linen fabric with a machine needle. It creates tidy little ridges with two lines of stitching, and is a fairly subtle but lovely little effect. Here the lines of it absolutely do not match at the shoulder seam. Sini's hand holding onto the yoke, with a mass of white linen in the background.
Close up photo of the sleeve slits. They have been slashed into the fabric and the fabric edges have then been rolled to a very very narrow hem and sewn on by hand with tidy whipstitch, with buttonhole stitch reinforcing the top of the slit, to stop it from tearing up into the sleeve itself.
A very very close up of the overlocking. It's narrow and done in white thread that has an almost silk-like sparkle and shine, and the loops of thread doing the overlock look both soft and structured. A very short stitch seam just below it, the overlocking is just for seam allowance finishing.
A close up of a small piece of the fine linen fabric, so fine you can almost see through it, getting hemmed by hand. Sini's pink fingers that are holding onto it are casting a shadow through it and two soft strands of embroidery cotton form the even small whipstitch holding the hem. The hem itself is maybe whopping three and a half millimetres when finished, so quite small. Sini's myriad silver rings look rather sparkly and nice, as well.
#Sewing#HandSewing#Linen
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Sini Tuulia

Notes on prewashing linen and cotton lace: Both will shrink in the first wash, linen more so. If you're putting either on a garment you're going to put in the washing machine, you should wash it before you do. One of those little basket cage bag things for washing brassieres is great, just unspool the whole length of it in there (6m fits fine in a small one) and wash with whatever else. Then gently flatten it out, and iron it hot when it's still wet or damp!

#Linen#Sewing
Continued thread
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La compagnie des petits lutins
3éme jour, j'ai toujours pas abandonné

je vous présente une chemise que j'ai fais l'année dernière, avec du tissus en lin trouvé a Emmaüs. j'ai repris les explications de bernadette banner pour faire une chemise "de pirate"

Je l'ai cousue entièrement a la main avec du fil de lin. après l'avoir un peu portée je pense qu'il faut que je lui agrandisse l’emmanchure parce que en l'état ça me fait mal aux épaules.

Récemment j'ai fait une version valentina du patron, il est pas testé mais si ça vous interesse je peux vous le donner.

#couture #pirate #sewing #linen
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Sini Tuulia

In addition to mostly resting and trying to get my life back together after simply too many small disasters, I've made another shirt out of the birthday gift linen. It doesn't look like much just on the hanger, but I cannot be invested in changing from a clean shirt to another clean shirt at this time. 😆 It's pretty nice though!

A sort of amorphous looking blob of lovely black linen fabric on a wooden clothes hanger which in turn is hung on a door. It looks quite crisp and nice, with sharp collar points, buttons spaced out in groups of two and about a dozen of them on the front. The buttonholes look nice and flat. There is much fullness at the very top of sleeve, gathered to the arm's eye, and some at the elbow where it is held by a slightly taller cuff with two buttons. They're not quite the same spacing as the buttons of the front, but close enough for the idea. It looks like a pretty professionally made shirt, and the fabric flows nicely.
Close up photo of the groups of buttons, held by a sort of bloodless pale white hand. The buttons are a very dark brown, almost black, shiny and separated from the black of the fabric by their texture. They have been tidily sewn on by hand. The fabric is a dense, slightly shimmery and very sleekly sturdy plain weave, with the very recognisable structure of a linen fabric. It looks lovely.
Close up of the sleeve cuff, held again by a bloodless white hand, now with myriad silver rings. Two buttons hold the cuff. There's a bunch of wispy cat hair over everything, but it looks nice. The cuff when buttoned closed looks both soft and structurally sound. The fullness drafted into the fabric of the elbow has been neatly gathered onto the cuff, the direction of the threads in the fabric making subtle little patterns.
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Sini Tuulia

Back on my bullshit, which is to say that I've just cut out the pieces of yet another black linen shirt. This is still the fabric I got with a gift card from aunt, and I have a feeling I bought much more than I thought... There might very well be a third shirt hiding in there, or at the very least a camisole of sorts?

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Sini Tuulia

Let me slip into my brand for a little bit before bed:
You know how cotton is incredibly water, pesticide and fertiliser intensive to grow? Well CHECK THIS OUT, I have an inconveniently powerful sense of smell and thus usually use a cotton towel for maybe three days before it starts to offend me. These nice linen towels that I have?? Going on strong for over a week! Fucking magical! Can you imagine the water and detergent saved?? Less washing, so much less water to grow??

#Sustainability#Linen
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Axiom the Doge

Four days of #BlackWalnut foraging from a single 100+ year old tree in my yard. I've been filling a plastic shopping bag every day. I'll keep #foraging as long as this tree keeps providing 😊🌳

I've also got a vat of the hulls on the stove for a dye bath. Going to make a test batch of #HandDyed fiber - but first I gotta brush it off of the #AngoraRabbits !

If I like the color it gives me, I'll do another batch with the #linen I grew this year.

A large plastic tote lid completely covered in black walnuts. Their outer hulls have been removed so they can be cured in their shells.
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