Emma den Hartog


Read about my sewing and knitting

  • On YouTube I saw a few videos on making your dress form. It was intriguing. I end up looking up Bootstrap online. Bootstrap offers your own dress form you can make yourself. They sell custom patterns, so the dress forms…

  • 27/10/2025 Staring off For doing well at work I rewarded myself with some Christmas fabric from Ikea. The fabric is thick and stiff. The pattern on it is large. I will make a Christmas dress with it. So, I will…

  • 22/9/2025 It’s time to make the dress. This is the first time I have printed a pattern that I made. I use the pintuck shit pattern. Put it on the computer and turn into a dress.  Then I sent it…

  • Today I added guide lines to my sewing machine. A few years ago, I scored myself an industrial sewing machine. I am happy with it because I can go so really fast. Sadly, the machine has imperial guide lines not…

  • I want to make a blue dress from a top sheet I got at Sheriden. The blue is similar to a dress I made in the past. I was tempted to remake that dress. While I was bored, I got…

  • 9/4/225 I have been Volunteering at Vinnies for over Ten years now. Over the time I got to do some small sewing and repairs. Mostly sewing a button on. Today we had a skirt come in that needed a repair.…

  • After finding an old drawing. I decided to make that. I first came up with this idea when I started to learn how to use the knitting machine. I found that lifting up stiches from several rows down left a…

  • With all these thoughts of burger fabric and work pants I end up dreaming about it. In the dream a waistcoat in burger fabric came to me. When I woke up, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So, I have…

  • 2/2/2025 With an old pair of work jeans and scrap fabric I will make a storage box. I first designed my storage box in 2020 when I need a box to store my underwear. After I finished making five of…

  • The inspiration for these pants was burger fabric. I work at a burger restaurant so I should put burgers on my pants. I’m Allowed to wear black pants as part of our uniform. Since I’m only doing pocket details it’s…

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