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fouryearsofshades · 1 year

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ao + zhequn by 重回汉唐

#重回汉唐 #hanfu #winter hanfu #taobao #ao #duijinshan #zhequn #blue #red #green #160/42 #so skinny

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craftmausoleum · 3 months

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A "cousin" to my post that has some knitting projects I've worked on recently. Knitting is a lot easier to take pictures of, so my sewing examples are a bit...unrefined.

Most recently, the Busy Bee Quilt by Elisabeth Demoo (brownbirddesigns on IG). This was a baby shower gift for my cousin, who is having the first baby of the family!

I ended up tie-quilting it, but instead of using the same color throughout, I changed the tie color to match the piecework! At first I was...sad that I didn't have time to quilt it regularly, but I love how this method turned out. Used a surgeon knot throughout, every 4" in a grid + every 4" around the border. Scrappy bias binding, which I wouldn't have ever thought of had my LQS ladies suggested it :)

Out of the entire quilt top, only a few points don't match up. That was something I considered a priority in this project, and I'm happy I could achieve it. 11am-11pm schedule, from start to finish it took me maybe 3 weeks.

I recently decided to experiment with Canadian smocking, my second attempt (lattice) shown above (left: reverse; right: front). It was really fun, and the grid concept made me think of sashiko stitching. Definitely worth practicing.

The only other project I managed to get pictures of (with sewing I tend to scorch-earth my way through things, no time for WIP pics/too exhausted for pretty FO pics). This was actually the final skirt, but I had also made a complete mock-up in white muslim. I love the way hanfu garments (these are closest to zhequn) are structured, and maintain their functionality despite the fine detail that goes into them.

I am actually in the process of composing an in-depth guide on how I calculated the measurements, using both my experience with the mock-up/FO, and all that I learned online via forums; bilibili; YT; etc. Most of those resources were in Chinese, so all of the years I studied ZH (Mandarin, specifically, 北京话 even more specifically [as is fairly common within American schools]) came in handy ;;

#personal #about me #sewing #quiltblr #tie quilting #baby quilt #brownbirddesigns #canadian smocking #traditional smocking #smocking #hanfu #zhequn #褶裙 #it has pockets #personal-sewing

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fouryearsofshades · 2 years

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