{"id":1376,"date":"2020-04-28T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2020-04-28T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:37:31","slug":"pantones-costumes-produced-on-janome-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/pantones-costumes-produced-on-janome-sewing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh yes she did! The inside story of Lesley&#8217;s wonderful Panto costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Church pantomime is a huge hit &#8211; and it&#8217;s easy to see why!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>It was all hands to the sewing machines for a church pantomime in Scotland, with an amazing array of costumes being required for the production.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lesley Langlands from Annan was tasked with making them. She kindly got in touch to tell all about her project, her sewing machine and to provide a few tips along the way.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I spent the a few weeks making costumes for our church pantomime<\/em> \u2018Mercy Buckets in Noah\u2019s Park\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I used my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/janome-4300qdc-computerised-sewing-machine-38118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janome Memory Craft 4300 QDC<\/a> sewing machine for the project. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;The green fabric in the Tyrollean outfit was an up-cycled table cloth and\u00a0 the broderie anglaise trim was made from an old valance. The ghostbusters outfit was made from a pair of curtains from a charity shop as were the two vultures\u2019 costumes. The owl and the fairy costumes were all new materials. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is six metres of net in the fairy skirt which I gathered quickly and easily with a ruffler foot. I covered a cheap pair of tennis shoes with matching fabric using Mod Podge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><em>&#8220;Our pantomime ran for three nights and we raised almost \u00a33,500!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"mailto:lldrumclair@btinternet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email Lesley Langlands \u00bb<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/janome-4300qdc-computerised-sewing-machine-38118\">Janome 4300QDC sewing machine<\/a> is fully computerised with stitches and settings at the touch of a button. Simple and easy to operate, no fuss threading with the auto needle threader and quick set bobbin.\u00a0The 4300QDC has plenty of easy to use features to make sewing a pleasure, such as 300 built-in stitches including 12 buttonholes and alphabets for creating various projects. Twin-needle functionality, superior editing, and mirror stitching are just a few of the cutting-edge features of this special machine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1378\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pantomime-costumes-made-on-a-Janome-4300QDC-sewing-machine.jpg\" alt=\"Pantomime costumes made on a Janome 4300QDC sewing machine\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pantomime-costumes-made-on-a-Janome-4300QDC-sewing-machine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pantomime-costumes-made-on-a-Janome-4300QDC-sewing-machine-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pantomime-costumes-made-on-a-Janome-4300QDC-sewing-machine-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lesley&#8217;s pantomime costumes were created on her Janome 4300QDC sewing machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gur.sewing.machines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Share YOUR wonderful sewing projects on our Facebook page \u00bb<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/janome\">Check our GUR\u2019s range of wonderful Janome sewing machines \u00bb<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>We love sewing!<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re still here for you! 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