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Did I do okay?
Ever since my first sewing project with a purchased pattern, I have been cutting out all my pattern pieces to my size. When I gained weight, I threw out all my old patterns that were cut out to a size too small, and eventually replaced them with new patterns which I cut out to my…
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Yet another purse?
A good friend at work goes for walks with me at lunch hour. Gotta get some fresh air and exercise! she says. Our path quite often takes us through the Mall with all it’s great shops. She is very careful to keep herself between me and the purse store, she jokes, because she thinks I…
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Don’t think so…
Why would anyone make a dress with such big armholes that you could see everything inside and possibly right through the other side. Vogue V1379
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Next? Diving into knits!
Last time I sewed anything with a knit fabric I was in grade 10. (That was a long, long time ago!) It was a heavy 100% polyester knit and it was solid pink! Very cool indeed! I made a t-shirt style top and hipster pants, almost a perfect match for this McCalls 3280. Can you…
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It’s done!! Seriously!!
Well it is Friday night and I am exhausted, but happy! Exhausted because it was a busy work week and happy because I got to wear MY NEW COAT to work all week. It was wonderful, not too hot and not too cold, but juuuust RIGHT! (I sound like Goldilocks and I am not even…
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Christmas all over again!
I have bought myself a wonderful after-Christmas present. How to use, adapt, and design sewing patterns, by Lee Hollahan I love reading books on the bus during my long commute to and from work. (If you can’t do it, ya might as well be reading about it!). The table of contents looks loaded with “how…
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Thank you Sis!
Spent a frantic one hour lunch today with my sister, Bon-Bons & Bootcamp! I was learning all about WordPress and Facebook. At one point I think I heard her mutter “like the blind leading the blind”. So now I know it all! (NOT!) 😀
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ACKKK !!
Look at this! I have stared and measured, measured and stared, and finally I have gotten the placement right (and the nerve) to sew my toggle closures on to my pea coat! First one done! Oh… wait! I can’t sew the lining in now. There is no seam allowance to sew it to! Sewing the…