{"id":757,"date":"2016-02-20T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T23:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=757"},"modified":"2016-03-14T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:05:24","slug":"starting-a-sewing-projects-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Starting a Sewing Projects Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had a serious sewing habit all of my life, so imagine my delight when, upon taking up sailing with Matthew, I discovered that boats have unlimited potential for sewing projects! Since my first winch-covers for Penny, I have upgraded my sewing machine to a Sailrite, and learned about all kinds of fabrics and threads suitable for boat projects.\u00a0I also joined boat-sewing groups, and have posted a few of my projects there. Now I think it is time to start consolidating the pictures and instructions to share with other boat-sewers and to leave myself a trail to follow, should I ever want to repeat a project. Here goes, in no particular order:<\/p>\n

Christmas Gifts for the Captain:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

His own personalized shopping bag, just for the fun of it. My sister-in-law has an embroidery machine, and is always willing to help out with my projects.<\/p>\n

\"1-2015-12-29<\/a><\/p>\n

Quilting Practice:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I plan to make Matthew a “Runner’s Quilt” out of all his running bibs that were previously proudly displayed on our refrigerator door at home, but must now fit on a boat somehow…making a lap quilt for him seems like a good solution (everything on a boat must serve more than one purpose)<\/p>\n

I have only ever made one quilt, and it was many years ago. So I decided to start small, and using some leftover bits, made a sampler in order to get a bit of practice before launching into the big project. I was so pleased with how it turned out, I made it into a cushion.<\/p>\n

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\"4-2016-01-27<\/a> \"5-2016-01-27<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Drogue Project:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That one has its own two-part blog with instructions, Part 1<\/a>\u00a0and Part 2.<\/a><\/p>\n

After the first season on the boat, I took it home to make some improvements. In order to fit in the locker, the bundle needed to be a bit shorter. It also needed some much more substantial handles. The final touch was to add its name in bright contrasting white letters, and a bit of reflective tape, in order to make it easy to find and identify in the kind of conditions under which it might be wanted. Here is the final version:<\/p>\n

\"2-2016-01-06<\/a><\/p>\n

Phifertex Pockets:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Love this stuff! Very sturdy, water runs right out of it, and it is easy to work with. Made pockets to the Captain’s specifications, with a place for each thing he wants at hand (now if he would just put those things back in their appropriate pockets once he has used them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"7-2015-08-30<\/a>\u00a0\"1-2015-08-30<\/a> \"9-2015-08-30<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have had a serious sewing habit all of my life, so imagine my delight when, upon taking up sailing with Matthew, I discovered that boats have unlimited potential for sewing projects! Since my first winch-covers for Penny, I have upgraded my sewing machine to a Sailrite, and learned about all kinds of fabrics and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-sewing"],"amp_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}