NOW I HAVE IT IN WRITING! Look out internet! I love you Dad 💗💗💗💗💗

@@thehandmadeharriells Photo approval is not blanket approval and is therefore required for each photo. 😉 Love you too! 🤎🥰😘❤😊

you are MOST welcome Noël. It’s nice to be thanked for reincarnating a quilt!

@@thehandmadeharriells I'm a librarian, people get precious about books too. I think it's remembrance of scarcity? Our great grandmothers would have cut things up to make new things without hesitation.

YESSSSSS

and in life-if you sew, we’re sistahs!

Isn’t it such a great dress? It’s time for me to sew another so I’ll shoot it!

He says Howdy Nancy! I like that philosophy. Sounds like a recipe for a damn good sew 💗

well Thankya Peter! Sending love from both of us!

Sue!! I read this out loud to Rob, with punctuation, and now there’s no living with him 🤣

@@thehandmadeharriells 😉

That’s a good sister 😁! Glad you’re with us, thank you for all the kind words!

thankya Maureen! The robe is on the way!

🤗🤗🤗that’s what I like to hear!

We are VERY happy to give you a laugh at the ungodly hour of before 5 am!😅

A drapery workroom, that sounds like a DREAM. Happy 💗 weeekend to you too Angela!

and I wasn’t even trying 🤣🤣🤣his blush should make a mandatory appearance in every video 🥰 I am absolutely thrilled to hear you’re taking mask making to the garment level. That’s what I hoped for when I put that video out 💗!

I can't keep track of who's seen it 😅....but, here it is! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMxlgLSrusexYps.html

And a very belated happy 💗 day to you Traci!

Heyyyy Professor! Yeah, there’s just not enough out there for the Extra dude. But I like the way you describe it leaving you to your own "play", which is exactly how the Extra Dude would view it!

Excellent! That’s what we aim for!

Sewing summer school sounds AMAZING. I would have gone to that camp!

Rob could be activities director 😂😂😂

Ooh yes - I can see it now! Sewing Bootcamp with the Handmade Harriells. Rob will be walking around with his clipboard and whistle directing all of us where to go. 😄 And at the end of the week we can walk the catwalk with our beautiful new creations. All your youtube fans can follow live updates and watch the big reveal fashion show. Please please please! With sugar on top?!?🙏😊🙏

🤗I’m blushing (and still covered in glitter 😅)

🤗thank you Krista!

On the short list!

I read this to Rob and he replied “that’s RIGHT he is” 🤣 Now if only he wanted a technicolor suit!

Happy belated 💗 day to you too!

Hey Tracie!! thankya! I’m setting up a new studio and haven’t sewn a stitch in weeks, so I’m ready too 😅😅 Congrats on the move!

🤗🤗🤗if only you could hire me for all those titles! Love to ya, Lou💗

There are a few more goodies I’ll include for men soon!

great to hear some Scroop love, I’ve gazed at a few of their patterns! I always jones a cardigan pattern this time of year (when I’m tired of coats 😅)

@@thehandmadeharriells I struggled more with the Ngaio blouse which is still on the naughty pile... but that was largely because I'm very much between sizes and I decided to handsew it while stuck away from my machine and all my projects in the first lockdowns - not the best idea I've had, but I was going a bit crazy. :D In Scroop's favour, the patterns are very dutifully notched which actually helped me catch some mistakes in my inbetween-sizes handsewing-geared pattern cutting! I have a couple more and I need to get cracking on making them; it's one of the many things I didn't get around to in the past two years. I love how Leimomi puts in such details like which direction to sew the seams in, and various little tips and explanations that mean you may actually learn something while sewing. Not all the styles are something I can see myself wearing, but I still think in terms of commercial patterns that aren't Burda, Scroop is the most represented in my collection (followed by Itch to Stitch) - especially because so many of the other pattern companies these days keep churning out patterns for stretch knits which is kind of the opposite of the direction I want (and even need) to be taking my wardrobe!

hey sewsis! Thanks for the love, fun and funky is what I aim for 💗 Well, at least our Dads landed in some good style ruts 🤣 My dad is usually in technicolor, this is by far the classiest Negroni in his Charlie Brown closet!

Thank you Sarah! 💗

Right?! Such a satisfying payoff as a dress!

Excellent! Those are the kind of rabbit holes we hope to send you down!

on the way!

YIKES that price! I was stunned to find out you can only get big 4 on deep discount here in the US. I oughta start some sort of pattern run for Canadian sewists 🤣 I’ll try and work up a 1493 video, at the very least, the tricky parts!

Cindy, thank you! We’re so glad to have you sewing with us!

I mean, errrrrrryhthang 🤣🤣🤣Most people think I’m 6’2 because of all these yards of fabric!

Thankya Sandy! I hope you’re sewing this weekend 💗

You’re so welcome! And if you’ve mastered blankets, you’ve got straight line stitching in your corner, garments are a stone’s throw away. A garment is just a blanket for your body 😁

oh the ones we’re wearing? absolutely! Unfortunately one is cutting out when we’re both on camera….which is the exact thing this set is supposed to make *easier* 🙄. So I’ll give the skinny good or bad!

What a beautiful thing to say. Thank you, Lucy!

🤗🤗Thankya Jeanie!

😆😆😆Yeah I really did 🤣

ah Debra that’s excellent, cutting out those windowpanes is really such a good time! I need to make another kantha quilt jacket, it’s been too long since I murdered a quilt 😅🤣

Thanks Tashanna! Really some of my favorites (well, one’s more my Dad’s favorite, he has like a dozen now 😅)

thankya Celciel! I've just got the one jacket video (and a short for speed demons). But I've got some plans for more upycling!

There were only a handful about a dozen years ago, now there’s a boatload of them- so many I don’t even know about!

She often says things and realizes what she’s said a split second later 🤣 But ain’t it fun to make them blush? 😉

@@thehandmadeharriells The sweeter they are, the sweeter the blush xxx

SCORE! We should put out a public alert 😅

Thanks Maria! So, that coat is made from a Kantha quilt, which already has those long colorful running stitches throughout the quilt. I just cut the pattern pieces out of the quilt 💗 I hope you’re sewing along with us!

Thankya!

ah you mean the dress, right? So many asked for it so it’s coming!

@@thehandmadeharriells yes the dress

I don’t even know where I shouted out to Pam Grier but I’m happy to do it 😅!

@@thehandmadeharriells Jeans at 4:06. I'm just a big Foxy Brown fella.

ah Rhonda, that’s no good! we’ll get you into those envelopes!

such a juxtaposition 🤣🤣🤣

🤗🤗🤗thankya Jessica, we love being foolish together 😅

done and done! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMxlgLSrusexYps.html

Hi Kathy, I wonder if there were multiple hem lines on the pattern pieces? Like, View a length, view b length? I’d double check that. The cutting lines for multiple sizes can also get hairy at the hemline, I generally cut along the bottom line even if it’s not the size I’m cutting. Also, when you place the a line on the fold, you might have to adjust for the curve of the hem, which is spread out over 2 pieces now instead of 4. I hope that helps, it’s a little tough without seeing the actual pattern pieces! My best advice when doing a hack like this is give yourself insurance at the hem. You can always level the hem when you’re done sewing! 💗

@@thehandmadeharriells Marcy, thank you for your information. Take care of yourself and Mr. Rob. (I love him, too). Sorry, but you have to SHARE him with your audience!

this is EXCELLENTLY put. And I love knowing how to pronounce from a pro! I may have to test out my accent again in a ☕️☕️video 👍🏽

Ah that’s a “kantha quilt," give it a google and you’ll find many different kinds (and prices)! They’re made from scraps and remnants of saris 💗

well, I hope I’m not jinxing it, but definitely before then….like in the coming weeks! 💗

I highly, highly recommend checking out the Curvy Sewing Collective website and Facebook group, if you're not already familiar with them (which from the sound of your comment I'm guessing you're not). Excellent resource and source of inspiration, and as someone whose curves are mostly bone structure, I must say that is true in general, not just for plus size sewists! The first trick that springs to mind is to look for patterns that already contain bust cup sizes.

@@beth12svist thank you so much!

@@47retta You're welcome!

excellent recs from @beth12svist ! You might also check out Cashmerette, she takes bosoms and curves into great consideration. And the founder, Jenny, is also a great human 💗

@@thehandmadeharriells thank you!

that’s an old Vogue pattern, I believe….and he only wore it once. With much arm twisting!