P-------1----+--L--2----+----3----+@10-4----N----5----+----R E:\PAGESEW\RUFFTEXT\ROUGH001.TXT ROUGH003.HTM FITTING, PATTERN AND DESIGN Linked ROUGH005.HTM household linens, scarves, handkerchiefs, flat things Linked ROUGH010.HTM EDGE FINISHES Linked ROUGH023.HTM Bags Linked ROUGH030.HTM : Notions Linked ROUGH025.HTM Knots Linked ROUGH036.HTM pants (&&: waistbands for shirts and pants)  Linked ROUGH045.HTM GARMENTS: designing & assembling broadfall pants ROUGH050.HTM : Pocket-bag project blog ROUGH003.HTM 40016 10-11-13 6:22p fitting, pattern, and design ROUGH005.HTM 85782 8-22-12 10:12p household linens, scarves, handkerchiefs, flat things ROUGH009.HTM 33186 5-20-16 11:29a seams ROUGH010.HTM 101360 4-03-14 12:34p edge finishes ROUGH011.HTM 55542 4-20-17 6:39p pockets ROUGH023.HTM 65405 10-22-08 11:46a Bags ROUGH014.HTM 79778 1-14-15 7:45p selecting and prepariing fabric ROUGH025.HTM 5103 4-29-10 2:42p Knots ROUGH029.HTM 5096 7-13-17 2:38p general advice ROUGH030.HTM 87196 7-13-17 1:19p Notions ROUGH036.HTM 22114 8-22-12 8:48p Pants ROUGH042.HTM 15769 3-06-18 7:11p Aprons ROUGH045.HTM 63219 4-24-17 9:00a Designing & Assembling Broadfall Pants ROUGH048.HTM 3778 4-02-15 7:22p pleats ROUGH047.HTM 61317 10-11-16 9:11p Trapezoid Skirt ROUGH049.HTM 8247 11-02-17 12:47p Embroidered-arrow Tutorial ROUGH050.HTM 14069 7-13-17 2:56p blog, pocket-size wallet ROUGH051.HTM 3786 4-29-17 6:29p lining & facing a sleeveless top ROUGH052.HTM 5078 7-21-17 5:20p Calling-card sewing kit TROUSPCK.TXT 9924 3-07-15 11:56p a post to be incorporated into the pockets file ARROW\ 0 11-02-15 11:51a Photographs to go with ROUGH049.HTM TRAPZOID\ 0 9-25-15 10:52a Photographs to go with ROUGH047.HTM FOLDPOCK\ 0 3-13-15 1:22p Seeds for an essay on fold-bottom pockets NOTIONS\ 0 1-23-15 10:22a Pictures of notions TOOLS\ 0 10-28-14 11:12a Pictures of tools WRDR\ 0 6-10-16 12:42p maunderings on sewing up a whole bolt of cloth SEWKIT\ 0 6-02-16 11:14a images for ROUGH52.HTM: Calling-card sewing kit POCKBAG\ 0 6-22-16 4:35p pictures for ROUGH050.HTM MEDFIN\ 0 2-03-18 3:07p To Mount embroidery on a cardboard circle ROUGH001.TXT : table of contents and odd scraps  ROUGH002.TXT : marking  ROUGH003.TXT : fitting, PATTERN AND DESIGN  ROUGH004.TXT : GARMENTS: subdivided: 035-043 ROUGH005.TXT : household linens, scarves, handkerchiefs, flat things  ROUGH006.TXT : wardrobes  ROUGH007.TXT : tools  ROUGH008.TXT : winding spools and bobbins  ROUGH009.TXT : seams  ROUGH010.TXT : edge finishes  ROUGH011.TXT : pockets  ROUGH012.TXT : bias Tape  ROUGH013.TXT : ironing, pressing, flattening, and creasing  ROUGH014.TXT : selecting and preparing fabric  ROUGH015.TXT : ripping seams  ROUGH016.TXT : cutting out  ROUGH017.TXT : drawing threads  ROUGH018.TXT : threading a needle  ROUGH019.TXT : buttonholes  ROUGH020.TXT : sewing on buttons, hooks, snaps &&  ROUGH021.TXT : English to metric conversions  ROUGH022.TXT : Hand-sewing stitches  ROUGH023.TXT : Bags  ROUGH024.TXT : Mending  ROUGH025.TXT : Knots  ROUGH026.TXT : Easing and gathering  ROUGH027.TXT : Annotated Bibliography  ROUGH028.TXT : Machine-sewing tips  ROUGH029.TXT : General Advice ROUGH030.TXT : Notions ROUGH031.TXT : Types of sewing machines ROUGH032.TXT : Threading a sewing machine ROUGH033.TXT : securing thread ends ROUGH034.TXT : crash course in math ROUGH035.TXT : GARMENTS: shirts and nightshirts  ROUGH036.TXT : GARMENTS: pants (&&: waistbands for shirts and pants)  ROUGH037.TXT : GARMENTS: ponchos  ROUGH038.TXT : GARMENTS: poncho shirt  ROUGH039.TXT : GARMENTS: women's underwear (slips, briefs, pull-over bra) ROUGH040.TXT : GARMENTS: mens's underwear  ROUGH041.TXT : GARMENTS: 50's pleated and gathered skirts ROUGH042.TXT : GARMENTS: aprons  ROUGH043.TXT : GARMENTS: slippers ROUGH044.TXT : Stay Stitching ROUGH045.TXT : GARMENTS: designing & assembling broadfall pants ROUGH046.TXT : WCPL Book reviews ROUGH047.TXT : Trapezoid Skirts ROUGH048.TXT : Pleat Math ROUGH049.TXT : Embroidered-arrow tutorial ROUGH050.TXT : Pocket-bag project blog -- missing -- ROUGH051.TXT : Lining a sleeveless top shirts and nightshirts && -- now ROUGH035.TXT pants -- now ROUGH036.TXT ponchos -- now ROUGH037.TXT poncho shirt -- now ROUGH038.TXT women's underwear && -- now ROUGH039.TXT slips, panties, bras men's underwear -- now ROUGH040.TXT 50's pleated and gathered skirts -- now ROUGH041.TXT Belly apron Cobbler apron Carpenter apron bib apron chef's apron barbecue apron coverall apron GARMENTS: Aprons -- now ROUGH042.TXT slippers && -- now ROUGH043.TXT Copyright Joy Beeson 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, etc. Words to know: straight grain cross grain true bias shirt-tail hem false hem seam seam allowance seam line stitching line cutting line corsage pin back stitch running stitch running back stitch hong-kong finish F ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ28 May 1995  R The art of sewing practical, everyday clothes for the family is dying rapidly, so I intend to write down what little I know in the hope that someone of a future generation may be curious to see how it was done. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OVERVIEW Rough sewing, perhaps to your surprise, uses most of the same techniques used in fine sewing. When you sew for practical use, "saving time" is more likely to mean putting off the day when you have to do the job again than to mean shaving off a minute here and a minute there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MISC. 20 November 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLAYING TETRIS WITH BITS OF BLUE DENIM Once upon a time I found two leaking shredded-foam pillows cluttering up my house. Looking about for some heavy fabric that wouldn't wear out as quickly as the ticks that had come on the pillows, I found a number of legs that had been cut off worn-out bluejeans. (Since neither of us wears jeans, I've no idea where they came from.) I trimmed the legs into rectangles, patched them together to make a tick, and stuffed the contents of both pillows into it. This fat, hard pillow proved so useful for reading in bed that the next time I found a couple of leaking pillows, I did it again. This time, I was dipping into my accumulation of denim scraps, and none of them were quite long enough to reach across a pillow. But I could find pieces that were the same length, and sewed them side by side to make six strips to piece into a pillow. Recently I found two more leaking foam pillows. (Strange; I don't remember buying six pillows; I don't like lumpy shredded foam.) By now my collection of blue-denim patches was picked over, and the previous pillow had been more trouble than it was worth. Not to mention that in the interval I'd made some bull-denim pants, and had scraps big enough to cut a pillow tick all in one piece, or at most three. But by now I had it in my head that blue denim was the proper cover for a reading-in-bed pillow -- and I was enjoying the challenge of fitting these little bits together. So here is how it went: I'd select a scrap, and find other scraps that were equal to or longer than this one. Each would be cut against the model scrap, and any crooked edges would be straightened by tearing or by drawing a thread. Straightening all those edges was the most time-consuming part of making a large object from small bits, but most of them had at least three straight edges already. That's partly because of my habit of cutting my garments exactly on a thread whenever possible -- and mostly because an irregular piece has to be a good bit bigger to keep from being thrown out. Then I threaded the sewing machine with a strong black synthetic thread that I wanted to get rid of && and I've long since forgotten how the rest of it went.