I apologize for not posting on Saturday like I said, I wasn't feeling good the whole weekend and I was struggling through to be able to have my first day making the poncho.
So I went to where the Seamstress' office / working place is and she showed me the basics of sewing and making your own clothing, like the sewing machine, how to cut and exedra.
It was surprisingly easy for me to learn! My favorite was the sewing machine.
The Seamstress asked me to cut out the pattern we picked out over the week so I will do that probably tomorrow.
I have to search for the lining this week, I am having issues with that because the lining thats good for it is a poly lining and it's the lining that's inside of coats or a suit jacket. It's not really soft.
The lining that's in the picture of the actual poncho looks very soft, like cotton. Unfortunately, cotton shrinks if put in the washer and dryer.
So I need to find a material that won't shrink and also is soft.
This detail matters to me because I never liked poly lining material. It was never comfortable to me, I just had to wear it because it's inside of coats.
Now that I think about it, silk would be fine as lining. I see it in a lot of coats too so maybe I should look for that.
But that's really all that happened Saturday, I will be at the office on Friday and stay longer so I should actually be done cutting out the material by then and send it to the embroiderer.
After that I will have to hand stitch certain parts of the poncho so the Seamstress will teach me that and she says it's very easy and fun so I am looking forward to that.
I should be done in no time with this project, it just depends how long the embroidery will take and me hand embroidering the V-neck and sleeves. But I am very excited and I cannot wait to be done so I can wear it and show it off to people.
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